None of this felt real. Abranyah ran her palms over her jacket, the same brown duster she’d been wearing since taking on the mantle of sheriff. It was night, sort of, but everything was covered in a wily haze, blurred like she had one pull too many from the ferment bottle. Shapes and corners were punctuated by an aura that faded outwards. Abranyah smelled her own breath by blowing into her cupped palm, but she detected no ferment, no ginger. She didn’t feel off-heels, but everything before her w...
Feb 01, 2018•33 min
To enjoy fishing, a body didn’t require much by way of supplies—but water was a good start. In two old chairs sat two old men, Eloy and Emmett, twins by birth. The creaky old barn served up a good dose of shade on mornings like that, the ones where everything was just a tad brighter than it felt like it should be. They sat in the quiet shade, listening to the gentle breeze dart through the boards and splinters, each holding a fishing pole—repaired and working like it had originally, like it once...
Feb 01, 2018•34 min
I begin my day with calisthenics, then soon after, I start withdrawing my own blood. Without an accurate view of the sun, my internal clock is sufficient to ensure I awake properly, however, the stop-watch I placed in the adjacent room has proven my biology to be reliable. I find long periods of stretching to affect my moods in a positive way, though I sometimes find myself impatient, and so I will run for around fifteen minutes on the treadmill. It is loud, but operational, and I will admit tha...
Feb 01, 2018•36 min
Marcus had always thought of gambling as a fool’s exercise, and this was his usual justification for losing at cards. “That’s three of the same shape and color,” quipped Gordius. “That means I claim the winnings, yes?” Marcus sighed, slapping his cards face-down on the large wooden spindle they were using as a table. “Yeah, it does. Again.” Music in Tincture: Book 2, Chapter Five: E.R. Goodman – Roil Crimson Curtain – Vanishing Anita Exira – Feeding Out Among The Crows (warped) Radikal Satan – P...
Feb 01, 2018•34 min
Excerpted from: Revenants of War An Attempted Guide for Safe Warrant After The Whatever So much we don’t understand, so much we’re trying to quilt together, so much that we never will. Days, hours, and whatever other increments we fret with, the more we dig out from the dust only serves to confuse our already time addled brains. Some folk will find themselves kicking along to the black-cross only to stub their heels on a remnant from the peoples who used to call our world their own. They’ll look...
Feb 01, 2018•33 min
She’d arrived at dark, and it was the men with loaded rifles that cemented Rachel’s distaste for strangers. She had been standing in the open field for almost thirty minutes, she figured, and under this dark of a night it made her uncomfortable. The man she was arguing with was sitting on the ground with his legs crossed, assault rifle laid over his calves, and he was spinning an aluminum can around around in his fingers. Music in Tincture: Book 2, Chapter Three: Vitus Von Degen – The Diesel Peo...
Feb 01, 2018•34 min
The boy was long past making his decisions of fate. The green canvas he’d wrapped around his nose and mouth had been chafing for the better part of the day, but he had finally reached town, so the prospect of things to come occupied his thoughts instead. Out in the barren, a body could only lift their heels for so long before they started to wonder if they’d ever see populace. The bright of the day set in early, and few traveled at night, so your thoughts were all that was left for the company. ...
Feb 01, 2018•32 min
Truth found little purchase in a barren sown with lies, and this went doubly so for the Devil. When time turned funny, most folk looked to one another as they struggled through their day-to-day, figuring things out and doing their best to set up four walls for them and theirs. Some had always liked lacing up the shoes of a nomad and wandering across the dust. If you had a purpose, it gave a body something to fix upon, a reason to keep stepping. However, wearing those nomad shoes out in the barre...
Feb 01, 2018•33 min
The shiny black motor flew across the barren, and vengeance followed. As Abranyah piloted, Rhamuel sat in the passenger side window well, one palm on the roof of the motor, the other wrapped around the trigger of a long rifle. Music in Tincture, Chapter Nineteen: Dexter Britain – Telling Stories Bersarin-Quartett – St. Petersburg Origamibiro – Flicker Sunhiilow – Le Songe d’Hacolhii’ Dexter Britain – Running Through Tunnels Trans Atlantic Rage / Balogh – Soul Finding Solice In Resolution Blear M...
Feb 01, 2018•59 min
Marcus felt like he was drowning, and his imminent demise tasted of ginger root. Music in Tincture, Chapter Eighteen: Jahzzar – Whisper Trans Atlantic Rage / Balogh – Seeing The Illumination Of The Sun Mark Neil – The Cold From Within Tom Fahy – The Long Long Epitaph (Futurity Suite) Ilyas Ahmed – Unveiled Nightmare Cobra – Joyeux Drille Allen Masterton – Sehv Tsahno Ambient Mark Neil – strANGE_Ls...
Feb 01, 2018•36 min
The sun had left the day, times as they were, and Allgood was set for blood. Music in Tincture, Chapter Seventeen: Zero V – Notch Tom Fahy – Creeping Trans Atlantic Rage / Balogh – Soul Search Allen Masterton – Sehv Tsahno Ambient Jahzzar – Guilty Dan Warren – The Decline (Instrumental) Tony Higgins – The Hungerford Bridge Cobra – Prud’Hommes...
Feb 01, 2018•36 min
Rachel liked the smell of a wood fire, yet, she felt a bit more uncomfortable when that smell—and the fire—were indoors. She blinked her eyes rapidly, taking in the scent of things, then, when they were good and proper open, she scrambled onto her backside and slid into the corner. Music in Tincture, Chapter Sixteen: Ilyas Ahmed – Moon Falling Trans Atlantic Rage / Balogh – Somewhere Leading To Nowhere Origamibiro – Flicker Dexter Britain – Seeing The Future Trans Atlantic Rage / Balogh – Soul S...
Feb 01, 2018•34 min
Excerpted from: Revenants of War An Attempted Guide for Safe Warrant after The Whatever One of the hardest things to reckon out in the wide barren, times as they are, is not only losing folk that you held close, but trying to keep a strangle on the memories they left. Music in Tincture, Chapter Fifteen: Ilyas Ahmed – Phantom Sky Peter Rudenko – Night Palette Trans Atlantic Rage & Balogh – Adjustment Is Key To Survival Jahzzar – The Last Ones Regis Turner – ouais non je sais pas des fois je s...
Feb 01, 2018•32 min
Every time he balanced one of the massive tobacco jars between his arthritic fingers, Morris briefly considered escape. Music in Tincture, Chapter Fourteen: Jahzzar – Joke Tom Fahy – Letters To Allayne Mitsuru Shimizu – H Action Davis – Pale and Blue Bersarin Quartett – St. Petersburg Jahzzar – Sleepin...
Feb 01, 2018•34 min
Rhamuel watched the helicopter effortlessly lift into the air, and he briefly pondered how useful such a thing could be out in the barren. Music in Tincture, Chapter Thirteen: Tom Fahy – Watchers Dexter Britain – Night’s Tale Allen Masterton – Sehv Tsahno Ambient Spuntic – Union Flow Tom Fahy – Long Winter’s Journey Into Spring How How – Flimp Origamibiro – Flicker Genetic Engines – Seal The Deal...
Feb 01, 2018•33 min
Stirring, Abranyah woke, and after a small stretch of lip smacking and unfocused blinking, she saw that Rhamuel was covered in blood. Music in Tincture, Chapter Twelve: Tom Fahy – I, Unfortunately, I Am Russel Huggins Plankton Wat – Hash Smugglers Blues Caligine – Mε Πιάνουνε Ζαλάδες Dexter Britain – Calling (Instrumental) Spuntic – Ultima Co.fee – Calabash Tom Fahy – Creeping Allen Masterton – Sehv Tsahno Ambient Tom Fahy – Woodlawn At Night Action Davis – Deep Thoughts...
Feb 01, 2018•36 min
There was a solemn nature about a place designed to fly folk around the landscape—especially one now long past use—but the way Rhamuel figured, it was just a big graveyard without any bodies. Music in Tincture, Chapter Eleven: Tom Fahy – Thimbleful of Black Tom Fahy – Being David Duff Ono – Difference Dexter Britain – From Truth Tom Fahy – The Mare Crisium Fairy Book Tom Fahy – Op. 7, No. 10 – Gestapattr No. 77 Secret Jane – Otherworld...
Feb 01, 2018•32 min
Excerpted from: Revenants of War An Attempted Guide for Safe Warrant after The Whatever Some think The Whatever came in the form of an all-out piece of military vengeance, someone with their mitts too close to the red button and a predilection for sociopathy. Music in Tincture, Chapter Ten: Dexter Britain – Slow Motion Strut Version Two Spuntic – Closes Tom Fahy – Rabbit’s Theme Spuntic – Slow Drift Tony Higgins – The Hungerford Bridge Underground River – Interlude Underground River – Cure Me Sl...
Feb 01, 2018•35 min
How he’d awoken in the middle of tall grass probably should’ve been his first question—but instead—Rhamuel simply wanted to know what time it was. Music in Tincture, Chapter Nine: Howie & Ann Mitchell – Clogger’s Inconsequential Selection Spuntic – Wake Up Regis Turner – ouais non je sais pas des fois je suis juste un peu mélancolique Tom Fahy – Blackberry Vigil Dexter Britain – After Christmas Dexter Britain – Collapsing Time Dexter Britain – The Time To Run Dexter Britain – Seeing The Futu...
Feb 01, 2018•32 min
The rumbling engine of the big motor was loud enough to drown out her thoughts, and for once, Abranyah was glad for it. Music in Tincture, Chapter Eight: Tom Fahy – Rabbit Asleep Ono – Difference Spuntic – Ulitma Spuntic – Movement, Album Edit Indian Wells – South Beach...
Feb 01, 2018•33 min
Excerpted from: Revenants of War An Attempted Guide for Safe Warrant after The Whatever To the forfeit wanderers and other wayward souls living in the scar: This is a poor excuse for a travel guide, confusing at best, but if you’re still around to turn its pages, you’re already used to such nonsense. Music in Tincture, Chapter Seven: Free Piece of Tape – Burning School Black Twig Pickers and Steve Gunn – Old Strange Chris Zabriskie – What True Self? Feels Bogus, Let’s Watch Jason X Allen Mastert...
Feb 01, 2018•35 min
They arrived at dark, and it was the men on rooftop with loaded rifles that cemented Rhamuel’s distaste for strangers. Music in Tincture, Chapter Six: Hypermagic – Jackie Dash Caligine – Mε Πιάνουνε Ζαλάδες Action Davis – Japanese “Blue” Gene Tyranny – Letter From Home Allen Masterton – Sehv Tsahno Ambient Allen Masterton (Anita Exira) – Feeding Out Among the Crows...
Feb 01, 2018•35 min
Paper football or a rubber-band shootout did well to occupy those lulls in the night, but nothing passed the time quite like a gunshot victim. Music in Tincture, Chapter Five: Deft – Balloons Don’t Always Fly – Remix Mitsuru Shimizu – Swimy Sam Shalabi – Rebetikaud Steve Gunn – Trouba...
Jan 05, 2018•32 min
Rhamuel inhaled deeply through his nose, and pondered the world. They’d made camp under a billboard, and after having been awoken by Rhamuel gently sprinkling sand into his ear, Marcus began to question his own decision making abilities. Music in Tincture, Chapter Four: Hypermagic – San Fairy Ann Plusplus – The Old Country Adriano Orru – Nemus The Magick Traveling Backpack Band – Prelude At Last Vate – Afrodita...
Jan 04, 2018•32 min
Old Mother placed her hands in her lap, gestured to the wooden table at her side, and ordered the boy to practice a decision of fate. Music in Tincture, Chapter Three: J. Koho – Ashram of Eternal Chant Krackatoa – Grand PooPah Allen Masterton – Sehv Tsahno Ambient Hypermagic – Apparatus Wooden Ambulance – Poor Bastard...
Jan 03, 2018•34 min
An old man and a young man sat across from each other in a bar, locking stares with joy and fear, and while the young man had a simple question, the old man would be dead in seven minutes. Music in Tincture, Chapter Two: Ambienteer – Ecclesia Sehv Tsahno Ambient – Allen Masterton Gareth Dickson – Noon...
Jan 02, 2018•25 min
Grave robbing requires a corpse, so at most, this was all just simple thievery. At least, that’s what Rhamuel liked to tell himself as any proper heir to the abandoned goods he was claiming may have simply had their bones turned to dust by The Whatever . Music in Tincture, Chapter One: Steve Gunn – Trouba Tom Fahy – Creeping Tom Fahy – Long Winter’s Journey Into Spring Tom Fahy – Hell Cats Wooden Ambulance – Dishonest...
Jan 01, 2018•28 min
