Selling Sunlight in Seattle
Saul sells sunlight as a drug in Seattle. He collects it within mason jars stationed in open, sunny spaces, and pours it into small black velvet bags crafted from blackout drapes. It functions like antidepressants bereft of customary side effects. Only his customers and friends know of his talent.
Ryla wears sunglasses to hide the squiggles of lightning flitting within her irises. The lightning does nothing but make things brighter and cause people to exile her.
When Ryla shakes Saul’s hand upon a meeting in Seattle, Saul’s power swirls out of his veins and into Ryla’s, and they soon learn that when combined, those powers can raise the dead.
But Saul’s livelihood, and the mental health of a large contingent of people, are threatened by the development. And Ryla’s sense of normalcy, the last shred of it she had after a lifetime of exile due to her eyes, is put in jeopardy.
Meanwhile a certain malevolent professor emerges with knowledge of their power, a man with unlimited resources, whose assistant crafts shadows into solid objects. They aim to extract the powers from Saul and Ryla and raise the professor’s late wife. Along with the souls many others.
While fleeing the professor and attempting to return Saul’s sunlight to his system, Saul starts developing feelings for the one person he doesn’t want to develop feelings for: Ryla. And Ryla feels herself drawn towards him.
But unless they stop the professor and his minion, and unless they reverse the process, they’ll watch the world shift into something surreal and terrifying, and they will never know how it feels to hold the other person’s hand.
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