A Sick Gray Laugh by Nicole Cushing

A Sick Gray Laugh by Nicole Cushing

Award-winning author Noelle Cashman is no stranger to depression and anxiety. In fact, her entire authorial brand, showcased in such titles as The Girl with the Gun in Her Mouth, Leather Noose, and The Breath Curse, has been built on the hopeless phantasmagoric visions she experiences when in the grip of paranoid psychosis. But Noelle has had enough, and, author brand be damned, has found help for her illness in the form of an oblong yellow pill, taken twice daily.

Since starting on this medication, Noelle's symptoms have gone into remission. She's taken up jogging. She's joined a softball team. For the first time in Noelle's life, she feels hope. She's even started work on a nonfiction book, a history of her small southern Indiana town.

But then Noelle starts to notice the overwhelming Grayness that dominates her neighborhood, slathered over everything like a thick coat of snot, threatening to assimilate all.

From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Nicole Cushing comes A Sick Gray Laugh, a novel about madness, depression, history, Utopian cults, literature, sports, and all the ways we struggle to stay sane in an insane world.

Nicole Cushing was born in June, 1973 - the youngest of four children. She was raised in rural Cecil County, Maryland, where she attended public schools. Her hometown was within driving distance to various historical sites related to Edgar Allan Poe. She counts her childhood visits to these sites as formative experiences that threw fuel on her already-morbid imagination. She attended St. Mary's College of Maryland (the state's public honors college), graduating magna cum laude with a degree in psychology. It was there that she undertook her first studies of psychopathology (a subject which frequently appears in her writing). Following college, she worked at a public mental health facility while simultaneously going to the University of Maryland - Baltimore to earn her Master of Social Work degree. This extended education (and later personal and family crises) delayed the start of her writing career. In 2003, she relocated to Louisville, Kentucky. Shortly thereafter she moved to nearby southern Indiana. She is married and presently childless. Although she had occasionally sold short stories in her twenties, it was not until the fall of 2008 that she pursued a writing career in earnest. Since that time, she has gone on to sell dozens of short stories, two stand-alone novellas, and a forthcoming novel (Mr. Suicide, due out in July from Word Horde). She received a nomination for the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award for her debut novella, Children of No One. She is currently working on her second novel and building her career as a nonfiction contributor to Nameless digest and the UK-based horror film magazine Scream.

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ISBN 13	9781939905529
ISBN 10	1939905524
Title	A Sick Gray Laugh
Author	Nicole Cushing
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Word Horde
Year published	2019-08-27
Number of pages	306
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