Disclaimer (A story in Lawyers in Hell)

Lawyers in HellDisclaimer
(A story in Lawyers in Hell)

The last thing he remembers is the chatter of an automatic weapon.  Glass explodes from the French doors.  Drywall erupts from the office walls.  Paneling cracks and splinters from the opposite side of the room.  Knick-knacks, pen holders, picture frames rain down on him from his ruined desk.  Warm, sticky, wetness oozes from the soggy carpet beneath him.  Cold numbness spreads inward from his limbs.  Darkness grows, closes him in.

Closes him down.

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Authors’ Commentary on “DISCLAIMER”

Lawyers in HellAuthors’ Commentary on
»Disclaimer«
 a story in Lawyers in Hell

Aaron “Monty” Montgomery was a highly-successful, well paid defense attorney for the drug cartels – until he lost a case and awoke in an elevator car headed for hell.  The regular denizens were bad enough: from impish elevator operators to a Welcome Woman who was anything but welcome; from librarians and lawyers to his first assignment.  Nothing prepared him, however, for his first opportunity: to defend Bram Stoker in a defamation suit brought by none other than Prince Vlad III Tepes Drakulya (better known as Dracula) or that it would plant him firmly in the middle of a power struggle between His Satanic Majesty and the ancient Babylonian gods represented by Pazuzu, demon son of the wind god.

Authors’ Commentary on “Check and Mate”

Lawyers in Hell Authors’ Commentary on
»Check and Mate,«
 a story in Lawyers in Hell

Hell made me laugh
So you want to know how I ended up in Hell. That’s easy it was because of Facebook. Yeah, Facebook.

A few  months ago I was having a really, really bad day at work, nothing what so ever seemed to be happening the  way I wanted it to  so as a result I was in a really sour mood. During my lunch break I was looking over posts on Facebook and saw one that Janet Morris had made using the title of the new Heroes in Hell volume, Lawyers in Hell.

Authors’ Commentary on “Heads You Lose”

Lawyers in Hell Authors’ Commentary on
»Heads You Lose,«
 a story in Lawyers in Hell

Once I started writing Lawyers in Hell, I wanted an environment to make it even more hellish. For military operations, Afghanistan (Ash can istan for the story) came to mind. It's rather inhospitable. And of course, the natives would like lawyers even less than they like most people.

I chose Joseph McCarthy as an antagonist, being one of the least regarded of recent American politicians (he led the hunts for "communists" in the 1950s, seeming to find them everywhere).

Authors’ Commentary on “The Dark Arts”

Lawyers in Hell Authors’ Commentary on
»The Dark Arts,«
 a story in Lawyers in Hell

I have always been attracted to writing about the dark side of Life; everything in this world is in balance between light and dark although the dark is ignored or made to be a taboo matter. For me, however, I see it as a pleasing challenge for I respect it for what it is.

When I was invited to write a story for Lawyers in Hell, I considered it to be quite the honour, for although the story would be set in a shared universe, the possibilities were still endless.

Authors’ Commentary on “With Enemies Like These”

Lawyers in Hell Authors’ Commentary on
»With Enemies Like These,«
 a story in Lawyers in Hell

Michael Z. Williamson first approached me about writing for the Lawyers in Hell, with Janet Morris’ approval, of course.  I had had little exposure to the Heroes in Hell series before that—a short by Gregory Benford in one of the “The Nebula Winners” volumes and a “fix up” (a novel made by editing several shorter works together) of Robert Silverberg’s Gilgamesh stories.  But that was enough to show that the world was different from the concept of Hell I’d grown up with.  It would have been very difficult to write interesting stories in that concept: “And they were tortured for all time. The end.”
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