Lee Laurais: Fiction, Drama, Essays


The Village Idiot - A Tale of the May: novel
On a bright spring day, in the green hills of New England, the village idiot -- the fool, the pilgrim, the outsider, the visionary, the bearer of prophetic light -- is at his wit's end. He's lost everything -- home, wife, job, friends -- and has gone to hole up in the woods. Little does he know that he's about to embark upon a quest for the grail of hope and joy and, in so doing, to turn defeat into triumph.
Canterbury Fair and The Callie Bear: short stories
The former treats of Morris Dancing, the latter draws on Irish myth and legend.
The Yellow Star of Shame:
On a summer night, at an Israeli kibbutz, Josef Chernow, a Holocaust survivor, forced to confront his buried past, must make a life or death decision.
Lugh Among the Lasts:
prose poem commemorating the feast of Lughnasadh.
The Kroll Farm and Notes From the Wonderground:
the former, a meditative reminiscence; the latter, a series of topical reflections on Jewish American identity at the turn of the Millenium.
Rite of First Refusal: a novel in progress.
At the age of thirty-six, Lacy Beauvais has spent half her life in prison for a crime she didn't commit. Following the prologue, where you learn what happened, the story begins on the day of Lacy's release. But her ordeal is far from over. Falsely branded a child molester and ostracized by the community, Lacy enjoys no privacy, and the authorities allow her no peace. Courage, persistence and a dedication to the truth sustain her as she discovers the secret of her origins, the reason why she was wrongfully convicted and the even more startling identity of the child, now grown up, whom she was convicted of molesting. A tribute to a spirit that refuses to be defeated and whose suffering brings redemption to others.
Warrior Princess Fan Fiction:
What if Xena and Gabrielle had changed the outcome of the Trojan War?
Fan Fic -- part fantasy, part social commentary, part literary epic, part comic book -- is folklore in the electronic age.

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