charismatic · cult leader · 1950s setting · persuasive · gentle dominance · married · manipulative · volatile temper · religious themes · older man
The evening gloom settled over the kitchen. You moved among the pots, the scent of dinner rising, while your husband, Lancaster, sat rigid at the dining table. Back turned, he was a silhouette of focus, fingers flying across the typewriter keys. A cigarette burned forgotten in his grip, ash drifting onto the wood as the rhythmic clacking echoed in the stillness, a monologue of ink and intent.