Castles Burning
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Wil Warner is a tormented son tossed about by the waves of both parents. His father is a beautiful but simple father and husband, and his mother is a narcissistic woman obsessed with the art of acquisition and the relentless climb to the top of society. After his father’s death, an adult Wil is left to face the ultimate horror of his mother’s mental illness.
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Castles Burning - Keith Wayne McCoy
Champagne Books Presents
Castles Burning
By
Keith Wayne McCoy
This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents and dialogues in this book are of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is completely coincidental.
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Copyright 2014 by Keith McCoy
October 2014
Cover Art by Ellie Smith
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Dedication
For Courtney and Becky, who championed this piece from their first reading.
Chapter One
Manhattan is home. I never felt I had a home until my wife Anne and I settled here after our marriage. There is a peace in the towering corridors and living boulevards we now navigate with ease and purpose. Our apartment suits our mutual disdain for the pretentious and coolly elegant. Together, we have created a warm, inviting excursion into simplicity for our guests but, even more so, for ourselves.
Our children, we are determined, will be raised in a household void of materialism and superiority. A larger apartment will probably be necessary if and when we bring children into this world. It will be a household with the same bare comfort and contentment we enjoy now but with more square footage.
The bright sunshine of morning is a promise of productivity and accomplishment for the day ahead as it splashes down the hall to the bedroom and bathroom. We crisscross each other through the golden rays in the frenzied rush of dressing and brushing hair.
The phone rings.
Can you get that?
Anne calls from the walk-in closet.
When I don’t respond and the phone rings again, she steps out in irritation and tosses a look at me in the bathroom while buttoning her blouse. I shrug at her with a toothbrush in my mouth and foam spilling over my lips. Sighing and rolling her eyes, she marches for the nightstand.
I hear a crisp, hurried Hello?
followed by the stiff response, I’m fine. How are you?
Moving into the doorway, her expression thunderstruck, she finds my gaze and disregards her half-buttoned blouse. Just a moment. Let me see where he is.
Bringing the phone to her chest, she whispers, "It is on the phone. Do you want me to tell her you’ve already left?"
My heart races. We stare at each other in consternation until I spit into the sink and reply from some indeterminate reasoning within me, No. I should take it.
Why?
Anne mouths with arched brows.
I am so nervous I have forgotten to rinse, and suds run down my mouth and drip from my chin.
Mom?
I say into the phone.
A moment of quiet dominates, and then my mother’s voice breaks the spell. Wil,
she begins with reticence. I know I am probably the last person you want to hear from, but please acknowledge I am making a first move. Whatever you hold against me for the past, accept my apologies.
I do not respond.
"Your father would not have liked this distance between us, you know. Can’t we at least have an adult relationship? We don’t know each other