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 was disconcerting in ways she couldn’t quite understand.

Music in Tincture: Book 2, Chapter Eight:

Spuntic – Lunar Trees BOPD – Grotesque Andu Simion – Argon Lee Rosevere – Spiders / Escape / Whacked Spuntic – Out of Step Bleak House – Coloured Lead Crayons Spuntic – Equilibrium Old Shapes (Jerry Lim + Evan Rapport) – yum yum Edmund Sullen – A Cry Within Podington Bear – Lola

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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 did in a time long before this day.

Music in Tincture: Book 2, Chapter Seven:

Cherly KaCherly – Underwater sleep while trying not to breath Peter DiPhillips – Soroya Cherly KaCherly – Time is running out. I’m sure. Lee Maddeford – Ask An Eskimo Kosta T – Nevertheless Spuntic – Composition Shake That Little Foot – Bonaparte’s Retreat Radikal satan – Espacio Bleak House – Highway Acrylic

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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 that I find the inconsistent hum of the thing as a utility in meditation.

Music in Tincture: Book 2, Chapter Six:

Podington Bear – Free Radicals Podington Bear – Mensa Vitus Von Degen – Black Gloves Bleak House – Barometer BOPD – New England Air Podington Bear – Showers Peter DiPhillops – Vadso Vitus Von Degen – Pieta

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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 – Periférico Bleak House – Everything Is Broken Or Intact Bleak House – Praise Book Cherly KaCherly – The pond as too far but we have the small buthtub just for the both of us Podington Bear – Data Podington Bear – Reflector Cherly KaCherly – Starting my work with the daily rebuilding of the telescope

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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 down, hymnal in one hand, a bottle in the other. Two thoughts cross their mind: I hope I’m not late for service… and who in ten shits is Dr. Pepper?

Music in Tincture: Book 2, Chapter Four:

Lloyd Rodgers – Cartesian Reunion Memorial Orchestra Michael Edwards – Option A Radikal Satan – Perifrico Robin Grey – Ninety Days (Instrumental) E. R. Goodman – Means To An End Nevermore Eleanor – Invitation Laura Sheeran – Rain Song

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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 People Spuntic – Out Of Step Xalm Retribution – Someone Is Looking At You In The Dark Bleak House – Oil Burner Crypt Sisters – Only He Understands Me Kromatic – Bounce Like The 80s (Krowne Back To The Future Remix) Vitus Von Degen – Countach Jari Pitkanen – Io

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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. Even with family in tow, it always devolved into silence.

Music in Tincture: Book 2, Chapter Two:

Pretty Little Dog – Shake That Little Foot Yum Yum – Old Shapes (Jerry Lim + Evan Rapport) Saydak – M-Pex & Makrox Ask An Eskimo – Lee Maddeford, Roland Vouilloz Charting Waters – E.R. Goodman Movement – Spuntic The Wandering – E.R. Goodman Lupine Rot – Laura Sheeran

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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 barren these days, the days after The Whatever, that was makings for more of a finite kind of future. A body needed the company.

Music in Tincture: Book 2, Chapter One:

BOPD – Grotesque Shake That Little Foot – Shady Grove Bleak House – Biology Slides Kosta T – Complect for… M Patuluci – Underground Nevermore Eleanor – Invitation

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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 Moon – Cold Summer Landscape Anita Exira – Feeding Out Among The Crows Dexter Britain – The Time To Run (Finale) Aaron Ximm – Spring Rain Trigg – Yasmin Steve Gunn – Improvisation 2 Régis Turner – ouais non je sais pas des fois je suis juste un peu mélancolique Blue “Gene” Tyranny – Letter From Home (piano solo) My Bubba & Mi – Nothing Much Lockerbie – Sumar (intro) Steve Gunn – Trouba Emphemtry – Old Dreams Jamie Evans – Opening Doors

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