Bøger af Monica Robinson

Quinn, a ghost of a woman who wanders the unending desert landscape, searches for a way to save herself from the truck driving highway woman tasked with ferrying her to the land of the dead. She is the victim of an unsolved murder at a roadside motel, and has spent years roaming the desert and avoiding the dangerous creatures that lurk there, often unaware of the way these seemingly separate stories entwine with her own. After a perilous journey that brings new knowledge about the dangers of the desert and what is both buried and living there, as well as awakening old memories, which prove almost equally dangerous, Quinn arrives back at the site of her death to wait for her partner, Ava. Quinn and Ava must evade capture and true death as they weave through the path toward a simple life together, but eventually discover that they are missing a few sentences from their collective narrative, a startling realization which threatens to break them entirely as they learn the unerring truth behind Quinn's murder and the actions surrounding it. This debut speculative fiction desert gothic novella from career poet Monica Robinson, thematically set along Route 40 in the American Southwest, loosely retells the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice through a queer women's lens. Ava and Quinn find themselves at odds with the strange specters that haunt the desert during a roadtrip-gone-wrong and must fight across the dangerous landscape to find one another again.

Five friends set to experience the summer of their lives, but in one tragic moment, tragedy strikes and changes them forever. Joe Thomas has spent the last two years battling the demons of his past. He's sure that his drinking days are behind him, but when a drunk driver kills one of his best friends and seriously injures another, he is sent spiraling back to a place he'd vowed never to return to. Dealing with his loss, Joe has to decide if forgetting what happened is worth losing everything he's worked for.

For laughs, Scott Ebstein tries out for the lead roll in his high school's production of Romeo and Juliet. To his amazement, he receives the role of Romeo. Though he has never acted a day in his life, he's certain that the experience will be fun. After all, he gets to play opposite his childhood friends, Cassandra Frasier and Joe Thomas, and the role will give him the opportunity to think about something other than the new man in his mother's life and his growing affections for Joe's younger sister, Faith. No sooner are the scripts handed out when disaster strikes. A vandal has used the missing supplies from the drama department to deface the school and then plants the evidence in Scott's locker. Desperate to prove his innocence, Scott does whatever it takes to clear his name-namely being civil to his mother's boyfriend, Lt. Marc Martin, the lead investigator in the case. The situation becomes more complicated when a second and then a third attack are made on the high school. It's up to the group of friends to figure out who is responsible and stop the incidents before opening night. Easy, except for one thing. No one ever told Scott that loving Faith might get him killed.

A COSMIC UNDERTAKING, A HESITANT STORY OF ANGELS, A COLLECTION OF RELIGION AND WHIMSY. THE ATMOSPHERIC RAMBLINGS OF AN EMPYREAN POET. EARTH IS FULL; GO BACK HOME is the second poetry book from independent poet, author, and artist Monica Robinson. This collection spans millennia and mythology, as timeless as it is modern, guaranteed to resonate with even the most resistant. From conversations with guardian angels to odes to Achilles' rage, EARTH IS FULL; GO BACK HOME pays homage to old myths and creates new legends all at once. For fans of Andrea Gibson, Allen Ginsberg, or anything in between, this is the collection for you. As always, "if you are still here: thank you".

(n.) exit wound: a wound made by a bullet or other missile passing out of the body. See also: the undefined pain between entry and exit. A compilation of original poetry, photography, and art depicting the pain upon entry and exit, and everything in between.