Tincture, A Weird West Trilogy
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Book 3, Chapter 19: The Day Is Mine
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At sunset, the old gunslinger looked upon a fallen kingdom and found himself unimpressed. Music in Book 3, Chapter 19: Cullah - Please Bring Me ...
Book 3, Chapter 18: The Salvation of Fear
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The moment cut his word in half, flickered lights before his eyes, then shut it all down with a deep dark absence of color so grim it was difficult to...
Book 3, Chapter 17: That Favorite Music
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the dark and rainy parking lot of the diner, Tom and Noah pulled the collars of their jackets up over their ears. Mark did not seem to notice the r...
Book 3, Chapter 16: What He Has Left Behind
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Be forewarned, I can still taste the ferment on my teeth. Conjecture and abstract thought do not, admittedly, serve much purpose in a guide to the mys...
Book 3, Chapter 15: The Rust In Our Blood
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Abranyah blinked through the rain, peering down both ends of the street, waiting for activity. Music in Book3, Chapter 15: Cullah - Please Bring Me...
Book 3, Chapter 14: This Is Where It Gets Weird
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bare-footed and with packs slung over their shoulders, Rhamuel and Abranyah made for the main gates of The Omaha Claim, fit to leave as fast as the du...
Book 3, Chapter 13: The Danger We Suspect
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In a sun dappled stretch of the Scar, endless as it had always been, a young woman found herself near done with what the dust had to offer. So goes ...
Book 3, Chapter 12: Dead Bullet Come Supper
19 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The diner was far enough away from work, but nothing felt far enough when there was going to be talk of confidential things. Things some argue bette...
Book 3, Chapter 11: Six More Things To Do
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Knucklebones stepped one leathery bare foot into the plastic pool, bright and faded colors both rippling under the liquid. Filth bloomed in arcs from ...
Book 3, Chapter 10: How Those Words Fall On Us
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
King's office was surprisingly empty for a man of his resources. There was no special reason for it—he was in charge of it all, the whole enterprise...
Book 3, Chapter 09: Play It For The Box Man
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We are always starving. It sort of goes with the territory—this being hungry in every odd tick of the day. An empty belly and its degrees of unpleas...
Book 3, Chapter 08: Send It To The Twins
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tom smiled and nodded with the applause, but when the meeting resumed he went right back to staring directly into the center of a donut. Music in T...
Book 3, Chapter 07: We Are Strangers Again
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Torches had never done Allgood much favor, but that they lit up a question or two in the good populace was useful. Two old branches lit the stench of ...
Book 3, Chapter 06: Witness To Our Song
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Even in that too-bright light of the morning, Abranyah always struggled to wake with it. She preferred to sleep as long as possible, but the sun would...
Book 3, Chapter 05: It'll Make Perfect Sense
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An otherwise normal day in an otherwise normal life, time as it was. Tom had been fostering a general sense of unease for a while now, yet like a weir...
Book 3, Chapter 04: Two Arms Between Us
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The ways a body tends to crave its own undoing is a humanistic riddle that I no longer wish to endure. A short way to speak it, I suppose: my empathy ...
Book 3, Chapter 03: In Fear and Sleep
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rhamuel kept folks on a spectrum of his own design, the range beginning somewhere around "tolerate," and ending near "abject avoidance." Abranyah onc...
Book 3, Chapter 02: King of the Game
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This was the kind of fruitless nonsense that permeated The Scar—a seeming irregularity of principle and purpose to things. A body could rub a book t...
Book 3, Chapter 01: Carry Us In Pursuit
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Old splinters whistle. Everything across The Scar has aged long past the reek of decay, more so worn, faded, and abused by the transient miscellany ...
Book 2, Chapter 19: Amen All The Same
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The tanker was always a curiosity for Rachel. "What are you looking for?" she asked. "You said you had an idea?" Arachal was bent over the front seats...
Book 2, Chapter 18: I'm Not Really Here
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Excerpted from: Revenants of War An Attempted Guide for Safe Warrant After The Whatever Much has been mired in speculation of the burnouts, most of i...
Book 2, Chapter 17: Preparing Buckets
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This wasn't the first time that something had tried to kill Abranyah. It was, however, the first attempt with a cannon. Music in Tincture: Book 2, ...
Book 2, Chapter 16: The Thick of Things
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel stepped back into the church and spat on the floor. "Well we've got lights again, no thanks to you," she said. "In the movies when they siphon ...
Book 2, Chapter 15: Pray For The Devil
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"I have every confidence in his ability to avoid a well deserved death," said Abranyah. She only considered the words after she had said them, surpris...
Book 2, Chapter 14: Reserves of Mercy
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
.2201 I met the most interesting man today. He sleeps at the fire while I write this, another few inches of bulk to my daily carry, but I find the exe...
Book 2, Chapter 13: And So I Give You Back
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The day had started to stretch on, and there were always more questions. The animals were silent, distanced at the far end of the property near Urcent...
Book 2, Chapter 12: There's No Road
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With a shriek and a rumble, the black car awoke. Rachel breathed a sigh of relief. She tested the clutch pedal and pushed the gear shifter into a vari...
Book 2, Chapter 11: Those Who Hunt You
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Unlike most in the barren, Barabbas was unconditional. Marcus, Yerses, and Devil were still asleep, the trio lying around the smolders of the previous...
Book 2, Chapter 10: You're Looking At Him
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Excerpted from: Revenants of War An Attempted Guide for Safe Warrant After The Whatever Let us be practical. Most bodies who wander in and out of the...
Book 2, Chapter 09: Now We're Crazy Together
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Vagueness and the inevitable questions it created only frustrated Rachel, and she had decided that her current predicament was simply one spot too man...
Book 2, Chapter 08: The Devil Pulls Six-Guns
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Book 2, Chapter 07: Let Us Do The Numbers
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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, twin...
Book 2, Chapter 06: Stay Safe, Stay Quiet
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 suffici...
Book 2, Chapter 05: The Flavor of a Ruse
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Book 2, Chapter 04: Day Isn't Over Yet
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 to...
Book 2, Chapter 03: Just A Little Brimstone
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 fo...
Book 2, Chapter 02: Three Years On, We Think
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Book 2, Chapter 01: You Carry Cannons
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Book 1, Chapter 19: And Dust You Shall Eat
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Book 1, Chapter 18: The Mad Sheriff of Allgood
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Marcus felt like he was drowning, and his imminent demise tasted of ginger root. Music in Tincture, Chapter Eighteen: Jahzzar – Whisper Trans Atl...
Book 1, Chapter 17: His Army Was Mist and Smoke
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 – Cr...
Book 1, Chapter 16: Time Moves Funny Now, As It Is
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ra...
Book 1, Chapter 15: You Ever Go Hunting for the Holy?
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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, t...
Book 1, Chapter 14: What Lovely Old Bones You Are
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Every time he balanced one of the massive tobacco jars between his arthritic fingers, Morris briefly considered escape. Music in Tincture, Chapter...
Book 1, Chapter 13: Let's Find the Gunshot Man
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Book 1, Chapter 12: Come and Gather Your Soon Regrets
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stirring, Abranyah woke, and after a small stretch of lip smacking and unfocused blinking, she saw that Rhamuel was covered in blood. Music in Tinc...
Book 1, Chapter 11: We Live Amongst the Dust
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Book 1, Chapter 10: It Gets Worse The Closer You Go
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 piec...
Book 1, Chapter 09: Broken For As Long As I Can Remember
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Book 1, Chapter 08: When You Turn Heel On My Family
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Book 1, Chapter 07: Memories Don't Work Like We Wish They Did
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Excerpted from: Revenants of War An Attempted Guide for Safe Warrant after The Whatever To the forfeit wanderers and other wayward souls living in th...
Book 1, Chapter 06: Feeding Out Among the Crows
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 S...
Book 1, Chapter 05: I'd Be Happier If We'd All Take a Long Walk
05 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. Musi...
Book 1, Chapter 04: Lest We All Take a Dive Into the Blackness Together
04 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Book 1, Chapter 03: I'll Still Be Short, If You'll Be Still
03 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Tinc...
Book 1, Chapter 02: And Wouldn't You Know It, Here We Are
02 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Book 1, Chapter 01: I'll Leave You To Your Being Sick
01 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 he...