Bøger af Laura Solomon

The stories in Tales of Love and Disability centre around people with some form of disability. In the first story, Prosthesis, a pianist with a prosthetic hand who plays on cruise ships finds that his hand no longer obeys the signals that his brain is sending it. The story Castle features a boy with muscular dystrophy who discovers that whenever he castles in chess he can travel to other dimensions where he can walk free of his wheelchair and is strong and powerful. Marsha's Deal is about a lady who lives with a rare disease that turns her body to bone whenever it is damaged. She suicides at Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinic and goes straight to hell. In hell, she meets the Devil and bargains with him for a chance to live her life again. He agrees, but there is a price to be paid. In Those Left Behind children in an Ohakune classroom start getting beamed up through the classroom roof in a modern-day version of the rapture. Blood and Guts tell the story of one woman's craniotomy. Old Hat features a magical hat with the power to grant you your heart's desire. However, your wishes are fulfilled with a dark twist.

Nothing Lasting is the tale of a nice normal middle class pyromaniac. Egged on by his bossy mother he is under pressure from her ghost to make the family name by lighting fires up and down an unspecified country, where all the place names are taken from a map of Antarctica, and thus enter history. The narrator's father is a hopeless electrician who lives through long periods of unemployment. His mother, when alive, was in and out of psychiatric hospitals. The narrator is disturbed in his mind and lights fires in what he imagines to be acts of revenge for the times he feels he has been wronged by others in his life. The novel contains strong elements of surrealism and is a black comedy.

Hell's Unveiling is the sequel to Marsha's Deal. Hell is raging and the devil and his minions are out to wage war on Planet Earth and on Marsha in particular. One of Marsha's foster children, Daniel, is framed for a crime he did not commit and is sent to juvenile detention. The devil sends minions to wreak havok in the lives of Marsha's foster children, preying on their fears and weakness and trying to destroy their self esteem. The devil himself comes to earth in disguise and tries to destroy Marsha. In this novella, the devil also runs a training complex where humans become minions and are sent to hell, where they lose their souls and are condemned to do the devil's bidding forever. The novel follows one unsuspecting, vulnerable human, David, during his time at the complex. Once the minions are trained they are sent on missions to Planet Earth to carry out the devil's plans. One of the devil's more ambitious minions comes to earth, also in disguise and seduces Marsha, then steals her children and takes them to hell. Marsha travels after him, entering hell via the elevator in the devil's training complex and rescues her children. The novel is a work of magic realism and is intended to appeal to an adult and young adult audience.

Black Light is the tale of Jim, an over-imaginative university student, who begins to write two novels. His life leaves a lot to be desired - his father committed suicide and he does not relate to his step-father. His brother is intellectually disabled. The woman that he is in love with is repulsed by him. Jim reads excerpts from his novels aloud to his friends at the local pub. As the book progresses, Jim loses his grip on reality and imagines that characters from the novels come alive and enter into his version of the world. Will the characters from his books fade away or will they continue to haunt him?

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