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 Masterton – Sehv Tsahno Ambient Plankton Wat – Hash Smugglers Blues Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides – Touto To Kalokeraki (This Summer)

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

Knucklebones stepped one leathery bare foot into the plastic pool, bright and faded colors both rippling under the liquid. Filth bloomed in arcs from his foot, dirt and barren clouding the chemicals. He wrinkled an ancient looking triangle that sat center on his face, and enshrouded by the giant round disc his hat made, and […]

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