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Derelict
On the night of his birth the mountains were on fire. The billows of smoke rose into the dark like a new land and the ridgeline formed a new horizon and the forests smoldered with untold embers that scattered into the wind like constellations hurled through space and across time. It was as though the world were turned upside down.
The mountains healed, but in his youth they bore bearded gray scars below their grassy balds and aloft of them the white clouds rode across the blue empyrean..
When Jack Horton returns from Iraq on furlough, he returns estranged from loved ones and from his sense of place. Having lost his innocence to a war he did not believe in he is no longer a boy, but consumed with his own traumatic past he is not a man either. Stuck in the in-between when his leave is up he decides not to return to the war that left him without identity, branding him a deserter. Yet the war catches up with Jack when he sees his platoon on the front page of the local newspaper and reads the names of his friends in the List of the Dead. He knew in that moment that he had to return and turn himself in for desertion.
The reader enters the story here with a boy just released from the brig, far from home in a broken place coming to terms with those he deserted, and coming to terms with himself. Torn and confuse, discerning the right from the wrong, the question that haunts him is…was he coward that deserted his unit, or was he unusually courageous to follow his moral instinct? In this place where he is sinking to his rock bottom, he finds a path to his own redemption through the restoration of a derelict boat among a derelict society of veterans that leads to a journey through storms, doldrums, and foreign impoverished lands that challenge his past and chart his homecoming.
Derelict
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Read by yours truly.