The Fog Train
IT’S A LITTLE HAYWIRE is a contemporary
story with a twist of magic realism. The trains don’t run through Hayward WA,
aka Haywire, anymore since the Mill
shut down. Nothing much is moving through Haywire anymore, it’s a dying town
hit hard by the recession.
Owen True lives on the other side of the
metaphorical tracks and hasn’t personally encountered the effects of financial
stress until he spends a summer month with his Gramps, where he meets a
homeless man for the first time and witnesses the breakdown of his friend’s
family.
It’s
a Little Haywire is actually a major re-write of a
book I wrote years ago when I first decided I’d like to try my hand at writing.
It was horribly executed but the core of the idea was still salvageable. It was
inspired by an experience I had, I think in a near dream state, where I woke up
to the sound of a train whistle, much like I used to as a child in the small
town where my grandparents lived. Except we didn’t live near the tracks at the
time.
That’s where the idea for the mysterious
fog train first materialized. Why would someone hear a train whistle when there
wasn’t a train?
The first time Owen True encounters the fog
train, he’s pretty shaken up. He sees it several times over the month he’s in
Haywire and each time it transforms, until it finally gives him a clue to how
he can help the struggling citizens of Haywire.
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