Kill The Engine: a rough-draft novel (Hungry-Ghost Dreams) - Softcover

Clark, Kiley Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1523231505 ISBN 13: 9781523231508

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ An Unofficial, Haunting Thought-Experiment — Bromden’s Story Doesn’t End at the Fence

First and foremost: Kill The Engine: A Rough-Draft Novel is not an official sequel to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
It’s not affiliated with Ken Kesey.
It’s not canon.
It’s something more dangerous — and maybe more necessary.
It’s a thought experiment.
An imagined continuation of what might have happened after Bromden ran through the glass, into the night, into a world that didn’t know what to do with men like him.

This "rough-draft novel" is gritty, raw, and unpolished — on purpose. It follows Chief Bromden into a world that's just as crazy, just as brutal as the one he escaped. Finding work. Finding housing. Finding a way to keep breathing while the ghosts of the ward still rattle inside his head.

It’s not a clean, heroic return to life. It's messy. It's heartbreaking.
Bromden’s son comes next — fighting his own demons. Then the grandson.
And when the grandson winds up back inside another asylum, staring up at the same fluorescent lights... you realize:
The machine’s still running.
The engine was never just inside the walls of the ward.
It’s everywhere.

Kill The Engine reads like Bromden's voice: heavy, broken in places, full of silence and flashes of poetry.
You don’t race through it — you drag yourself with him, chapter after chapter, through the heavy fog of memory, pain, and stubborn, impossible hope.

This isn’t a feel-good book.
This is a feel-everything book.
If you ever wondered what happens after the last page of Cuckoo’s Nest — this imagined journey feels honest enough to hurt, real enough to matter.

Brutal. Beautiful. Necessary.
But remember: this is a tribute, a what-if, not an official continuation.
It’s a rough draft of the American nightmare we’re still trying to wake up from.

About this title

About the Author

Kiley Jon Clark was Ordained in 2011, into the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition of "Ngagpa" or Non-Monastic Practitioner of Dzogchen, by his Perfect Teacher Drubwang Tsori Dechen Rinpoche. Kiley spent years sharing meditation with people living on the streets and in homeless facilities with his group "Homeless Meditation Practitioners" or "HMP Street Dharma". In 2017, Kiley also completed Pathways of Light Seminary Training and is an Ordained Minister Counselor in 'A Course of Miracles' Teachings. He works for Nonprofits in San Antonio, Texas.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1523231505
• ISBN 13: 9781523231508
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162