Victor Ollnee's Discipline

Victor Ollnee is a star catcher at Winona University, but a Sunday morning newspaper throws his world into disarray. An article denounces a medium named Lucile Ollnee—who turns out to be his mother—as a charlatan who preys on the grieving, and the piece hits Victor hard enough that he rushes from the fraternity house to confront the accusations. In the quiet of his dorm study, he and his roommate Gilbert sift through the scathing prose, forcing Victor to confront fragmented memories of a childhood “ghost‑room” and a family he barely knows.

As Victor wrestles with the possibility that his mother’s secretive practices might be a hoax, the story explores the tension between public reputation and private doubt. The early chapters blend campus life, sibling‑like camaraderie, and a lingering mystery about the true nature of Lucile’s “ghost‑room,” setting up a tense, character‑driven drama that asks how far we’ll go to protect the people we love.