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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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