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The Wizard of Musk
Author’s Note
The Wizard of Musk is a creative homage to L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), a timeless fairy tale of unlikely companions, false grandeur, and the discovery that the seemingly all-powerful Wizard is merely a man behind a curtain.
Baum’s work has also inspired longstanding interpretations as a political allegory of America’s Gilded Age, although his intentions remain debated.
This story revisits that imaginative tradition for our own troubled times.
— Elias Winter
Chapter I — The Road into Musk
Once upon a time, in a country so large that no man had ever seen the…
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