The main story in the collection
Taking Wainui concerns a boy who is the son of a Black Mamba gang leader. It is assumed that he will follow in his father's footsteps and become a gang member too. However, he meets a lady who works stopping young people getting into gangs. He is given an initiation project of stealing from this lady's house. She stops him in his tracks and talks him into not stealing from her, but going home to face his father instead. In the story
The Scar two people with disabilities put a restless spirit at ease.
Subterranean Ghost Station Blues concerns a wealthy socialite who decides to sample life in the New York sewers. The story
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The main story in the collection
Taking Wainui concerns a boy who is the son of a Black Mamba gang leader. It is assumed that he will follow in his father's footsteps and become a gang member too. However, he meets a lady who works stopping young people getting into gangs. He is given an initiation project of stealing from this lady's house. She stops him in his tracks and talks him into not stealing from her, but going home to face his father instead. In the story
The Scar two people with disabilities put a restless spirit at ease.
Subterranean Ghost Station Blues concerns a wealthy socialite who decides to sample life in the New York sewers. The story
Jacob and Fig is about a boy and a giant who become friends and explore the immediate vicinity.
White Lotus is the tale of a bewitched tattoo that comes to life.
The Sammy Series is a comedy series that revolves around a rebel angel whom has been sent on a mission from God to become a musician, and his girlfriend Tiffany. Finally,
The Rising Epidemic of Bullying is an essay that examines the impact of bullying.
Laura Solomon books include Black Light, Nothing Lasting, Alternative Medicine, Freda Kahlos Cry, Brain Graft and Taking Wainui.
She has won prizes in Bridport, Edwin Morgan, Ware Poets, Willesden Herald, Mere Literary Festival, and Essex Poetry Festival competitions.
She was short-listed for the 2009 Virginia Prize and the 2014 International Rubery Award and won the 2009 Proverse Prize. She has had work accepted in the Edinburgh Review and Wasafiri (UK), Takahe and Landfall (NZ). She has judged the Sentinel Quarterly Short Story Competition.
Her play The Dummy Bride was part of the 1996 Wellington Fringe Festival and her play Sprout was part of the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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