Rainbow in Mourning

My name is Marie Joseph-Charles and I am a writer of love and death.Why death? It is the undeniable fascination with murder and the macabre. What makes someone take the life of another? It's something many of us have pondered. It is easy to say I could never kill anyone. But I have never been a mother in a position to protect my child. I have never been kidnapped and held in captivity with only one way to escape. I am not a jilted lover. In writing, I can transform myself into any one of people and find out what motivates them and feel what it's like to take a life.Why love? In truth, at my core, I am a hopeful romantic. Finding someone you want to wake up to in the morning and can't wait to tell about your day at night is a beautiful thing. Finding that person who makes you feel whole is something so many of us long for. It is our nature to want this other half for ourselves.I invite you all to take part as we explore those fundamental fascinations that are rooted in the human core: Love and Death.

As writers we find our muses in the most unusual places. Our muses choose us and choose when to strike at our sleeping imaginations and help us create something magical. All we need to do is wave our wand- a pen- over paper and create a new world for people to find themselves lost in.Rainbow in Mourning follows the lives of eight murderers in a sleepy little town nestled within violet covered hills. Some may be sociopaths, psychopaths, or just reached their personal limits. Their motivations may even be something that resonates with you. Their stories are told by the Author. Trapped in a life she never wanted, she desperately seeks to carve out some small semblance of happiness and to rekindle the fire of dreams that have seemingly died away. An unlikely muse, seven arched colors across the sky that are so frequently synonymous with joy and hope, lead her to the horrors of her neighbors' fates. She uses the woe-some tales she finds in local news, spins the stories, and uses the gruesome deaths of others to further her career. But what happens when her muse is gone? Where will she find her inspiration when there aren't any murders being committed?