Lazy Palms

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Lazy Palms

Author: Mickey J. Corrigan
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9789363548244
Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2026
Price: $22

Lazy Palms is a speculative story about a pilot program for self-administered euthanasia. The fictional state-sponsored, experimental clinical trial is being conducted at a mobile home park called Lazy Palms in a small imaginary beach town in Florida.

Rosie Dwyer is a retirement-age journalist living in Boston. She decides to research the mysterious program after discovering it is being conducted in her hometown. She returns to South Florida and lives undercover at the trailer park.

Legal, moral, and personal decisions about late-stage life choices are the focus of this novel about an older woman's search for the truth. She interviews people on both sides of the issue: a religious leader, a pro-life blogger, researchers and healthcare professionals, activists and the dying, caretakers and loved ones facing unbearable loss. Her safety is threatened, she revisits her own losses, and she finds new love. But ultimately she must decide: is a national right-to-die program an essential leap forward in end-of-life care? Or a dangerous mistake?

Using science and conspiracy, pathos and hope, Lazy Palms delves into the pros and cons of legalized euthanasia--a topic of great interest to the living, but one that is strangely taboo.

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Mickey J. Corrigan

Originally from Boston, Mickey J. Corrigan writes noir with a dark humor. Poetry has appeared in Fourth & Sycamore, Flatbush Review, Penny Ante Feud, ink sweat and tears, r.kv.r.y quarterly literary journal, New Verse News, Dissident Voice, Synchronized Chaos, The Rye Whiskey Review, and elsewhere. Chapbooks include The Art of Bars (Finishing Line Press, 2016), Days' End (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2017), Final Arrangements (Prolific Press, 2019), and the disappearing self (Kelsay Books, 2020). Grandma Moses Press will release Florida Man in 2020.

Jennifer Gurney

Jennifer Gurney lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. Her family, friends and faith are cornerstones of her life and give it depth, meaning and joy. Having grown up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, she loves the water. Having lived in Colorado for more than 30 years, she is in love with the mountains. During the pandemic, Jennifer joined the online group The Daily Haiku and began writing poetry as a way to find optimism in a bleak and uncertain time, connection despite solitude and healing from loss. Recently, she began submitting her poems for publication. She is delighted and humbled that more than 1,000 of her poems have been accepted for publication, finding a home in journals around the world in only a year and a half’s time. Two have won international poetry contests and one was turned into a choral piece for a series of concerts in the Denver area this summer. Her poetry crosses a wide range of form, subject and style, but always with a consistent voice that is honest and authentic, seeking to convey all that is on her mind, heart and soul. Having recently turned 60, she is delighted to have this new part of her life blossom before her eyes. My Eyes Adjusting is Jennifer’s first book of poetry to be published.