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Soul #24—aptly named after the number on his morgue drawer—is not entirely convinced he's dead, and he keeps getting “advice” on how to “move on” from questionable sources. Some encourage #24 to go toward the Light, while one in particular keeps pushing him toward the Dark. That's Goshena, processor of souls and companion to Jingles, a soul-eating frog. Goshena secretly plots to keep #24 too confused to move toward the Light, hoping he will instead become a delicious soul to someday serve to Jingles.Goshena's primary directive in the Big In-Betweena is to lure as many newly deceased souls toward the Dark as possible. She tries to get to them early on, before they have a chance to be guided toward the Light. Accepting death can free them from her grip, but moving toward the Light requires something more—the ability to pass a death quiz designed to test their honesty, integrity, and knowledge of their previous life. As much a story of #24's struggle to find understanding and meaning after his death, Goshena: Queen of the Big In-Betweena is also the story of his impact on the volatile and unpredictable ruler of this fog-filled terrain, who is rapidly losing interest in her job. Bright does not claim to be an authority on death and the afterlife; he merely wishes to offer, through jest and satire, an allegory capable of inspiring reflection on these verboten subjects.Goshena: Queen of the Big In-Betweena addresses questions of death and the afterlife with jest and satire, proposing alternative views on a subject that is often taboo. This surrealistic story features Goshena, hired to greet the newly deceased. Volatile and unpredictable, she has no qualms about throwing dissident arrivals to Jingles, her giant soul-eating frog.Goshena's most recent assignment is to welcome Soul #24 (the number inscribed on his morgue drawer), a recalcitrant soul who refuses to accept that he has died and has reasons to return to the Living. But can he or must he go home with Goshena and Jingles? Or … will he pass his death quiz and move toward the Light?

Social work professional Chuck Bright hadn't planned on a writing career centered on death and the afterlife, but death turned out to be his wake-up call. Following the loss of several family members, friends, and coworkers, as well as two client suicides, between 2000 and 2001, Bright's social work career suddenly seemed meaningless. His greatest desire was to write.He therefore pursued his doctoral studies in social work with a plan in mind: if he had not written anything substantial by the time he received his PhD, he would return to social work full-time. But the cosmos had other plans in mind. Two and a half years into his doctoral studies, with not a word set to paper, Bright sat down one evening at the lake house he shared with his husband Andre, and, quite unexpectedly, words began to flow. An angry, impatient character named Goshena presented herself to him as ruler of a vast, turbulent space where life ends and death begins. By the time he finished his doctoral studies in 2007, Bright had completed not only his doctoral dissertation but nine of the books he would write in the twelve-volume Goshena series. He subsequently converted book 1, Goshena: Queen of the Big In-Betweena, into a graphic novel and adapted it into a three-act play. By the start of 2015, Bright had created a second series, called Dr. Chucky, an irreverent jab at psychotherapy in which a social worker named Dr. Chucky provides counseling to the dead. A book called Little Dorcas: The Executioner's Daughter, also adapted into a three-act play, soon followed. Bright has also written two additional plays: It's My Party and I'll Fly If I Want to and Trill-O-Gee! Chuck Bright holds a BA in sociology from Purdue University; an MSW from Loyola University, Chicago's School of Social Work; and a PhD in social work from the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He has also taught courses in social work and psychology at various universities. Bright currently resides in Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb of south Chicago, with his husband, Andre Latia. Goshena: Queen of the Big In-Betweena is his first graphic novel. ILLUSTRATOR Maureen Burdock, an award-winning transnational feminist artist and graphic novelist is the author of the F Word Project: Feminist Fables for the Twenty-first Century (McFarland, 2015).