Lucy's Got a Lot of 'Splaining to Do — Ann DeFee

Can you recite dialog from your favorite Monty Python flick? Do you chuckle remembering a scene from There's Something About Mary or Fargo? Are you a huge fan of Mel Brooks? If that's the side your bread is buttered on, you'll love Lucy's Got a Lot of 'Splaining to Do. Lucy's a not quite slapstick, full-on-humor story of quirky characters and fantasy with a huge dollop of romance. In order to win their wings, apprentice angels Coco and Ace have been tasked to make sure that Lucy Carson and Jamie Randolph fall in love -- a job that will require a ton of imagination and a miracle. A Las Vegas teacher with a proclivity for all things retro, Lucy's dream is to have a baby. But considering her sex life is a big fat zero, a baby shower seems highly unlikely. In her world view, men are pond scum -- that's courtesy of her lower-than-a-rattlesnake's belly ex-hubby. Jamie is a tabloid journalist whose only goal is to return to mainstream reporting. But his life turns topsy-turvy when the neophyte angels convince -- read that bribe -- him into getting involved in their hare-brained scheme. Lucy turns out to be mighty appealing, but she's strictly off-limits. Getting smote -- whatever the heck that means -- is not his idea of a good time. So what will it take for these two very different people to fall in love? How about a miracle called parthenogenesis -- fertilization without the benefit of sperm. Far-fetched -- yep, but that's why it's miraculous. Set in a Las Vegas that tourists rarely see, with a cast of eccentric characters -- a Transylvanian hit man, a drag queen named Merry Chino Cherry, and a devil's minion who moonlights as a personal injury lawyer -- this story has all the elements of a rollicking good time in Sin City.