Something Special

by Lance Tait

For Tom Hazzitall, a lawyer, life is good. He has a job that is fulfilling. He has Lisa, his loving wife. They have enough money to live where they want to. Then one day Lisa dies, a victim of a seemingly meaningless crime. Two weeks later a woman shows up at Tom's door. She is the spitting image of Lisa. What can Tom do but take her in? Is she a replica created by space aliens, as Tom's cleaning lady Pauline suggests? A comedy-drama, with songs. This play was previously published in paperback in the anthology, "Mad Cow Disease, Something Special, and Other Plays" by Lance Tait.

105 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 8, 2014

About the author

"Werewolf and Idol" is Lance Tait's first novel. His extensive work for the stage includes theatrical adaptations of 17 short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. His one-act and full-length plays (40+ in total) have been produced or received staged readings in New York, Boston, the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University, Los Angeles, Denver, Toronto, the United Kingdom, South Africa, South Korea and Paris, France. He is also the author of popular comedy sketches published on Amazon. In 2002, he founded Theatre Metropole in Paris. He has been active as a director/writer/producer of short films on the internet, as well.

Influences and likes (novelists): Sherwood Anderson (“Winesburg, Ohio”), Honoré de Balzac, Emily Brontë, François-René de Chateaubriand, Anton Chekhov, Philip K Dick, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexandre Dumas, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hermann Hesse, Stanisław Lem, Mario Vargas Llosa, Edgar Lee Masters (“Spoon River Anthology”), Herman Melville, Robert Musil, Vladimir Nabokov, Mary Shelley, Frank G. Slaughter, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Stendhal, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Kurt Vonnegut, HG Wells, Virginia Woolf; (short story authors) Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe.