Who is Jasmine Jett and why is she trying to disappear? What is required to live a life on the right side of the law when your previous occupation has notoriously been as super-villain? Can you ever really be forgiven in a society that can always be reminded of your past misdeeds, and a superheroic industry that relies on having adversaries in order to exist? And how does a lonely girl with horrible social skills fall in love with an Information Technology expert with equally horrible social skills, and try not to have the whole thing blow up?
That is the premise of Dw Dunphy's latest novella, "The Last Stand For Jasmine Jett," available through Amazon as a Kindle book. Dunphy used the fantastic and absurd world of superheroes and super-villains to make comments on the nature of forgiveness, or lack thereof, in today's world. "It's an aspect of it that always bugged me when I read comics or watched superhero movies," Dunphy said. "There were only two ways: you either killed the bad guys or you locked them up forever. But we know there's a third way, and it's called redemption." But with so much at stake for those who fight "the good fight," a mechanism is in place that might not want one to find redemption, or to live a law-abiding life. As is experienced by the lead character Lisa DiVincenzo, the one-time bank robber in a purple bustier called Jasmine Jett, job opportunities are few for an ex-criminal, and the circumstances of a post-crime life have specialized needs. While this sounds like the set-up for a dire, gritty tale about life on the outs, Dunphy denies it strenuously. "It's about superpeople, for cryin' out loud. How serious does it have to be?"Videos