{"id":329,"date":"2018-06-05T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wileequixote.com\/?page_id=329"},"modified":"2018-06-15T20:28:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T20:28:32","slug":"novel-masters-in-this-hall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wileequixote.com\/?page_id=329","title":{"rendered":"Novel – “Masters in This Hall”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/span>Rick Kingsley\u2019s an everyday guy.\u00a0 True, his dad Linwood Kingsley Sr. is a rising Tea Partier in the North Carolina Senate.\u00a0 His mom\u2019s a passionate queer activist lawyer whose wife quit the Navy over \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell.\u201d\u00a0 His stepmom Eunice is a small-town Southern belle Fundamentalist, who hires black maids and Christian psychics.\u00a0 Teen half-brother Lin Junior is a dudebro \/ frat boy jerk-in-training.\u00a0 Younger half-brother Aidan\u2019s a train buff; emotional, sensitive and a bully magnet.\u00a0 But Rick\u2019s your ordinary twentysomething, overeducated and underemployed, answering Customer Service phones for the power company.<\/p>\n

Until Aidan runs away, leaving behind hidden-camera videos of his bullyings, at school and from Lin Junior, and of the grownups\u2019 refusal to help; then stays missing for three years but keeps mailing back Polaroid selfies.\u00a0 Until Rick, and others, start seeing \u201cghost trains:\u201d\u00a0 long-gone streamliners reappearing on their old tracks \u2013 and sometimes letting people board, before vanishing again.\u00a0 Until Rick inherits, from a mysterious recluse he\u2019s never met, an enormous fortune and the equally enorrmous estate of \u201cHaw Court.\u201d\u00a0 Until mysterious attacks against random terrorists, doxxers and right-wing politicians begin, devastating them with psychic blasts of mind-frying remorse. \u00a0Until a figure known as \u201cthe Wizard\u201d starts appearing in dreams, but offering real-world powers.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, global-warming disasters (heat waves, blizzards, \u201cthousand-year\u201d floods, tornadoes) are increasing.\u00a0 Man-made ones too:\u00a0 \u201creligious freedom\u201d and Stand Your Ground laws; right-wing sabotages against elections, science and civil society; Charleston and Flint and Standing Rock; and worst of all, Donald Trump headed for the Presidency.<\/p>\n

Now, on the eve of the 2016 election, Aidan\u2019s coming home.\u00a0 Coincidences and dreams make Rick suspect some connection between Aidan, the \u201cghost trains,\u201d the Wizard, and all the rest of the chaos.\u00a0 Is Aidan in danger?\u00a0 Rick\u2019s family, friends; Rick himself?\u00a0 He\u2019ll have to use all his newfound wealth and power to find out\u2026and perhaps confront the Wizard in person.<\/p>\n

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(Free!<\/em>)\u00a0 The first chapter:\u00a0 <\/strong>( you’ll have to double-click it to get it readable size<\/em> )\u00a0 <\/strong>Now Arriving<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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