A Sick Gray Laugh

<p>Award-winning author Noelle Cashman is no stranger to depression and anxiety. In fact her entire authorial brand showcased in such titles as <em>The Girl with the Gun in Her Mouth</em> <em>Leather Noose</em> and <em>The Breath Curse</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Nicole Cushing comes <em>A Sick Gray Laugh</em> a novel about madness depression history Utopian cults literature sports and all the ways we struggle to stay sane in an insane world.</p>