Literary Fiction
Date Published: 01-13-2025
In a school/reformatory, a teacher fights his own loss of faith in the power of education and the twin assaults of drug cartels, their hired assassins among his students. and the blind idealism of his principal.
Excerpt
“Come in, come in, ye who seek refuge from the fearsome, pitiless dog-day heat of the naked desert sun!” Nick declaims as he enters the Kopechne ancestral home and turns to his younger brother Justin, who follows.
The contrast between the two couldn’t be starker. With his broad, squared shoulders and mesomorphic chest, Nick’s black hair and sharp features scream of masculinity. Having left work early to rescue his brother, he arrives in a charcoal gray three-piece suit, his sensible burgundy tie just a tad loosened at the collar, a pocket watch with a visible chain adorning the ensemble.
Justin, meanwhile, sports a slender, if athletic, build. The wrinkles and billowing of his shirt at the waist betray a carelessness about his dress. Though the glasses he wears give him the look of an intellectual, they cannot hide his soft, bewitching doe-eyes with lashes so long that they scrape against the lenses. That characteristic gentility is, however, moderated by a considerable pugnaciousness when it comes to ideology. His handsome features and ample dark brown hair also serve as a compensatory influence.
“Cheer up, lad!” Nick reacts to his brother’s cloudy demeanor. “There’s libation in the fridge, stronger spirits in this little hideaway,” he continues as he taps his rather large liquor cabinet. “Best of all, there’s escape from the merciless late summer swelter, courtesy of the modern miracle of climate control, known in the vernacular as air-conditioning.”
About the Author
Jan Notzon is a novelist and playwright in Charlotte, NC.
His first novel, The Dogs Barking, is a coming-of-age story set in a sleepy backwater Texas border town in the 1950s. And Ye Shall Be As Gods, recounts a brother’s fight to rescue his sister from the clutches of despair and his lost love from catatonia. The Id Paradox, is the story of three friends, assumed betrayal, rescue and healing from the horrors of spiritual annihilation. Song for The Forsaken chronicles the tale of two sisters and the loss of faith that tests the bond between them. Suffer Not the Mole People, is the story of a family's travails as they make their way from Poland to the United States in 1866. ONLY THE DEAD tells the personal stories of three families, one Anglo and two Mexican as they participate in the establishment of the Mexican and Texas Republics. His seventh novel To Sing Like a Mockingbird is now available on Amazon.
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question for author-What personal experiences or observations influenced your writing?
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