Welcome to the Flow and the Ebb!
Hello there. Welcome to The Flow and the Ebb, the journal of Eric Scott.
There's a bunch of stuff in here- personal stuff, school stuff, geek stuff. But the main stuff is the fiction and poetry. For ease of use, this post exists as a quick guide to everything like that in the journal.
Here's the directory...
-Family Traditions
My current main project is a collection of short stories and memoir about growing up a Pagan. The title of the collection comes from a term sometimes used within neopagan circles: a "family tradition," or sometimes "famtrad," is a term that means a person has received their training and knowledge of Wicca/Witchcraft/Paganism from their family line, traditionally an old grandmother who learned stuff from her grandmother and so on down through the ages. Often, the claim is bunk, done solely to legitimize the speaker's faith. For me, the term is a little different; I know my parents became pagans in their twenties, and there are certainly no old pagan grandmothers lurking in my family tree. But still, I have inherited a family tradition of my own, and even if the whole thing only started in the late '50s, I still think it's a powerful and meaningful religion. These stories are about growing up as part of a religious minority, and about coming to terms with understanding what it means to be a second generation pagan in America in the early 21st century.
Hrafspa is a memoir about Mikal the Ram, a bard I knew of and greatly admired in the Society for Creative Anachronism. Mikal died of brain cancer, and his death affected me quite a bit, even though I had only actually met him once. This story is about Mikal's funeral, and also about coming to terms with legends and identity. This story has been published at Killing the Buddha.
Surrender Dorothy is a short story about a young woman named Dottie, loosely based on a friend of mine. The story is about the conflict between Dottie's own romanticized ideas of her childhood and her faith and the reality of her womanhood and the complexities of living as a pagan in a world that, even when not openly antagonistic, often does not really understand paganism.
Three Encounters with the Gods is a triptych, three short vignettes that are connected more by theme than any kind of continuing plot. The three stories here are true, more or less. This story appeared in issue 8.2 of Ashe! The Journal of Experimental Spirtuality.
Perfect Love and Perfect Trust is a story about that I adapted from the initiation rite of one of the members of my pagan family. Green's Cave is an actual cave on the Meramec River, and one of my favorite places in the world. This story takes place after Surrender Dorothy, whose main character shows up here, though the story is mainly about Andy the Green Man.
The Thor Fish is based off an actual incident in my life, where I was in fact accosted for said sticker in the drive-thru of a McDonald's. My grandmother was from Kaskaskia, and I sometimes have the same sort of feelings towards it that Austin does. This story is forthcoming in Kerouac's Dog Magazine.
Over the Rainbow is the final (I'm pretty sure) story about Dottie and Andy, and brings the collection to a close. The details of Linda's funeral came from the funeral for Allison Duncan, one of my mother's closest friends. The Elysian Fields are based on a house I visited in Blue Springs the weekend I wrote it.
Lughnasadh is a short memoir about the first time I (along with my friends Sarah, Joe, Alaric, and Megan) held a pagan festival together -- the eponymous Lughnasadh, the first of August. It's a little strange in that I wrote it in the first person plural ("we.")
The Snake and the Panda is a rather longer memoir about my experience at the 2009 Heartland Pagan Festival. I spent some of it dressed as a panda, and most of it completely in love with a woman who danced with snakes. This story is forthcoming in Witches and Pagans.
-The ARGEN THE DEMON cycle ( Echoes, Checkmate, Law and Order, War Stories, Wake Up Screaming, "No Good Deed...", Reptiles, Asp, Desert at Night, Knights and Pawns, Shrieker, Friends and Enemies, and Demons and Angels)
ARGEN THE DEMON is a cycle of short stories (really, a novel in disguise) that I've been working on for some time now. It was originally going to be a comic book, but the artist didn't really have the time for it in his schedule, so it switched to a fiction format. (For what it's worth, I kind of like it better this way, though whenever Yale draws Argen for me, it excites me to no end.) My girlfriend has described it as a "part fantasy, part superhero, part noir," and I think that's pretty accurate; major influences include Humphrey Bogart movies, Batman, the Rogue class from Dungeons and Dragons, and the film "Hero."
ARGEN THE DEMON is a story about two things: a city and a man who lives within it. The city is the Citadel of Lost Souls, once known as the Northern Gate. Originally meant to be a trade and military hub for the Kingdom of Arnoch's activities in the Great Northern Wastes, the Northern Gate now exists as a prison colony, where the kingdom's undesirables and criminals are deposited and told to begin their lives anew. The man is Argen Torus, once known as the Demon. Years ago, the Demon was a powerful and notorious assassin, part of a group known as the Three Vipers. One day, the Demon simply vanished and was never heard from again, even by his partners. Then, three years later, he appeared in Citadel, having relinquished his name and now operating as a vigilante. His motives for this change are unknown.
ARGEN THE DEMON follows Argen as he battles against the underworld of Citadel and the demons that haunt his past, fighting through the myriad obstacles of weariness, temptation, and corruption in search of redemption.
-Citadel Stories (Reptiles, An Angel in Citadel)
Two more ideas for new stories, both taking place in the same universe as ARGEN THE DEMON. Both take place in Citadel again, which I like and dislike. (I don't want to be pigeonholed, which is why I don't like the idea of doing, for instance, a direct sequel to AtD. Not anytime soon, anyway.)
-The FALL Stories ( The Watcher, Station to Station, Reaching for Da'at, and Fall.)
Sometimes we write in order to make sense of things we don't understand. Fall is kind of like that. I don't understand monotheism, and never have, but I live in a largely monotheistic society. And many parts of the tapestry of Islamo-Judeo-Christian belief fascinate me; there are lots of interesting stories there. But I can't figure how a person believes in it, much the same way I guess most monotheists can't see how somebody can believe in Thor.
Fall was originally known as The Damnation of Heaven and the Salvation of Hell, it was published in one of the campus newspapers, The Monitor, as "Fall." This is a revised version. Though the themes in this story have something to do with the novel I've begun to think about, this story is not considered canonical within that novel (though a variation of it may yet show up in the text.) It's still a pretty good story, in my opinion.
Station to Station had its genesis when I took a class on the Faust legend during the fall semester of my Junior year. It was extremely enlightening and mind-warping. It also gave me one of my favorite characters, who makes an appearance in this story, the infamous Dr. Marianus. That's Mephistopheles, the deal making devil from Faust, in disguise. The story is largely about something that working at a collection agency showed me: a lot of people, as adults, just don't have any kind of dreams or drive, or at least, it's nothing they seem to act on. I'm admittedly being hard on the narrator in this story, because, hell, I wish I had that job, but that's the kind of thing that drove this one. The title is from a David Bowie song.
The Watcher is intended to be the first story in the FALL novel, serving as an argument for the rest: a small encapsulation of the themes of the larger novel. I got inspiration for this from the first book of Enoch, which details the fallen angels known as the Grigori. I felt sorry for the poor guys, myself, and their seemingly unjust punishment by God for doing their duties a little too passionately. I'm really proud of this story, especially because I actually attended each of the services Oz goes to; there was a certain amount of guerrilla literature here.
Reaching for Da'at was a homework assignment for a fiction workshop, in which we were supposed to look at several foci to reveal a character. I happened to choose the first spheres of the Tree of Life.
-Raining in January
Raining in January is an autobiographical story, focusing on the ups and downs of my relationship with a girl I knew in high school. I think it might be the best story in the journal.
- Dear Victor
I wrote this story in the wake of my roommate Vikram being expelled from Truman State because he, well, failed all his classes. Without notice he up and left, and has not spoken to me since; this frequently leaves me with an odd feeling, since I never properly got to say goodbye to someone who I had seen every day for about three years. This story is informed by that incident, even though none of the events are factually true. I presented this as my capstone paper for my English Senior Seminar at Truman State in December 2007.
- A Day in the Life, with iPod
Done partially as a thought experiment, this story takes a guy- a combination of several friends- and explores his day, in particular his relationship with an almost-sort-of-but-not-quite-ex-girlfriend. It's set in Saint Louis and steals many things from my real life, though this one is actual fiction. The title comes from the music being played on the narrator's iPod as he progresses through the day.
- The Meeting at Han Gu Pass
This story was my attempt at writing something in the style of magical realism. The old master is Lao-tsu; the young man is named Lü because, when I first learned to do an I Ching reading, I asked how my fortunes would turn out as a writer and drew the hexagram for "Lü, the Wanderer." I've since taken that as something of a Taoist magical name. Lü's speech at the end is from the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching.
-Frozen Lightning
Short, autobiographical. Published in The Monitor.
-Hourglass
Meant as something of a "Gaiman-esque" short story, with a strange fantasy world and a largely unexplained plot. Published in the Fall 2005 short story issue of The Monitor as "The Hourglass," oddly.
-Ingram (Detective Story) (The original Detective Story; a rewritten version of one of the first scenes is found here.)
Ingram was my attempt to write a hardboiled noir story, set some undefined amount of time in the near future (perhaps fifty years.) I've never finished it, partly because it's the most graphically violent thing I've tried to write and I'm a little afraid of it. I'll come back to it someday, though.
-Film Noir
A sketch. Short, but I like it. I forget if it was originally a poem or the other way around.
- Christmas Eve
I believe the basic image here- a man walking down Cherokee Street in the winter- came to me in a dream. I liked it alot, though.
- Miss You Beautiful
Published in the Monitor's short story issue.
-Jumping
Quasi-autobiographical (it's about me, to be certain, but I never did the things described here), this was the story I challenged myself to finish. Mostly written as a way for me to deal with going away to college, this also probably marked the point at which I definately said my goal in life was to become a writer.
-Heroin
A story I wrote for Mr. Economon's class back in high school. Largely inspired by the film Koyaanisqatsi, and kind of an environmentalist piece, I guess.
The following songs and poems have appeared in the journal. I'll only give commentary on a few that I think are significant. This list is more or less in chronological order.
- Song for Kali, 11-11-02
- For Allison, 4-21-03
- Dream, 9-12-03
- Tell Me, 2-26-04
- The End, 5-5-04
- Nixon Went to China, 6-5-04
- Wider, 10-22-04
- Desperate, 1-11-05
- Everything's Alright, 2-15-05
- Topdecking, 2-22-05
- Theory, 2-24-05
- It Snowed Again Today, 2-27-05
- Saying Goodbye (Again), 5-10-05
- You'll Never Know, 6-13-05
- Peppermints, 7-29-05
- Goodnight Kiss, 9-9-05
- Stream of Conciousness, 7-17-05
- I Never Stayed Up 'Til Six Before, 9-5-05
- 1000 South Franklin, 10-19-05
- Tree Lined Streets, 10-2-05
- Rider, 11-29-05
- Break You, 12-7-05
- Next To You (For SG), 12-19-05
- Obsession, 12-22-05
- Old Pen, 1-22-06
- Snowy Day, 1-24-06
- The Start of Something Beautiful, 1-26-06
- Tundra, 2-22-06
- Film Noir, 2-24-06
- Delta Chi, 2-26-06
- Any Given Saturday, 3/6/06
-Senior Year
-Kissing in the Bathroom
-Any Given Saturday
-Who's Your Boyfriend?
-Not Talking/Not My Fault
-The Waltz
-Dear Joan
-November
-Any Given Saturday (Reprise)
-(I Can't) Save Anyone But Me
-Dear Joan (Reprise)
- Turning Twenty, 3/13/06
- Gideon Wandering, 3/22/06
- A Prayer, 3/25/06
- Every Time It Rains, 4/4/06
-Train to Chicago, 4/11/06
-The Questing Beast, 4/11/06
- Theory, 4/14/06
- Midnight Outside Novinger, 4/24/06
- This Morning, 4/24/06
- Jones Soda, 4/30/06
- Coffee, 5/10/06
- Shopping at Hy-Vee, 5/15/06
- Epicurus, 5/26/06
- Almost, 6/3/06
- The Flow and the Ebb, 6/16/06
- Angry Young Man, 7/3/06
- Smile, 7/6/06
- Rosinante, 1/27/06
- Halloween Night, 8/7/2006
- Life into Boxes, 8/18/2006
- Window Pane, 8/19/2006
- The Evening Star, 8/23/2006
- San Francisco, 8/27/2006
- The Girl Next to Me on the Plane, 8/27/2006
- Geeky Girlfriend, 10/3/2006
- The Dirge of Dreta Phantas, 10/6/2006
- Highways, 10/10/2006
- I Hope It Snows This Christmas, 10/11/2006
- Stream of Conciousness, 11/16/2006
- Like the Fella Once Said, 11/19/2006
- The Moment After Zen, 11/27/2006
- Walking Away From Your Door, 12/13/2006
- Lugh the Sun King, 1/4/2007
- Thermodynamic Miracles, 1/7/2007
- Echoes of the Boxer, 1/20/2007
- Gangleri the Wanderer, 1/26/2007
- Wonderworld, 3/21/2007
- Tao is, 5/24/2007
- Terri, 5/30/2007
- Ukiyo-e, 6/27/2007
- 6:09 Sonnet, 8/17/2007
- Field of Sand, 9/4/2007
- Fasting Past the Sun, 9/11/2007
- Way Out Club, 10/16/2007
- Political Protest, 12/6/2007
- Walking into Ho's, 1/4/2008
- Penelope, 1/13/2008
- Out In the Cold, 2/19/2008
- Death of an Idealist (An Ode to Bacchus), 2/23/2008
- For Jack Kerouac, 3/11/2008
- Under the Bridge, 8/3/2008
"A finished thing is a dead thing."
There's a bunch of stuff in here- personal stuff, school stuff, geek stuff. But the main stuff is the fiction and poetry. For ease of use, this post exists as a quick guide to everything like that in the journal.
Here's the directory...
-Family Traditions
My current main project is a collection of short stories and memoir about growing up a Pagan. The title of the collection comes from a term sometimes used within neopagan circles: a "family tradition," or sometimes "famtrad," is a term that means a person has received their training and knowledge of Wicca/Witchcraft/Paganism from their family line, traditionally an old grandmother who learned stuff from her grandmother and so on down through the ages. Often, the claim is bunk, done solely to legitimize the speaker's faith. For me, the term is a little different; I know my parents became pagans in their twenties, and there are certainly no old pagan grandmothers lurking in my family tree. But still, I have inherited a family tradition of my own, and even if the whole thing only started in the late '50s, I still think it's a powerful and meaningful religion. These stories are about growing up as part of a religious minority, and about coming to terms with understanding what it means to be a second generation pagan in America in the early 21st century.
Hrafspa is a memoir about Mikal the Ram, a bard I knew of and greatly admired in the Society for Creative Anachronism. Mikal died of brain cancer, and his death affected me quite a bit, even though I had only actually met him once. This story is about Mikal's funeral, and also about coming to terms with legends and identity. This story has been published at Killing the Buddha.
Surrender Dorothy is a short story about a young woman named Dottie, loosely based on a friend of mine. The story is about the conflict between Dottie's own romanticized ideas of her childhood and her faith and the reality of her womanhood and the complexities of living as a pagan in a world that, even when not openly antagonistic, often does not really understand paganism.
Three Encounters with the Gods is a triptych, three short vignettes that are connected more by theme than any kind of continuing plot. The three stories here are true, more or less. This story appeared in issue 8.2 of Ashe! The Journal of Experimental Spirtuality.
Perfect Love and Perfect Trust is a story about that I adapted from the initiation rite of one of the members of my pagan family. Green's Cave is an actual cave on the Meramec River, and one of my favorite places in the world. This story takes place after Surrender Dorothy, whose main character shows up here, though the story is mainly about Andy the Green Man.
The Thor Fish is based off an actual incident in my life, where I was in fact accosted for said sticker in the drive-thru of a McDonald's. My grandmother was from Kaskaskia, and I sometimes have the same sort of feelings towards it that Austin does. This story is forthcoming in Kerouac's Dog Magazine.
Over the Rainbow is the final (I'm pretty sure) story about Dottie and Andy, and brings the collection to a close. The details of Linda's funeral came from the funeral for Allison Duncan, one of my mother's closest friends. The Elysian Fields are based on a house I visited in Blue Springs the weekend I wrote it.
Lughnasadh is a short memoir about the first time I (along with my friends Sarah, Joe, Alaric, and Megan) held a pagan festival together -- the eponymous Lughnasadh, the first of August. It's a little strange in that I wrote it in the first person plural ("we.")
The Snake and the Panda is a rather longer memoir about my experience at the 2009 Heartland Pagan Festival. I spent some of it dressed as a panda, and most of it completely in love with a woman who danced with snakes. This story is forthcoming in Witches and Pagans.
-The ARGEN THE DEMON cycle ( Echoes, Checkmate, Law and Order, War Stories, Wake Up Screaming, "No Good Deed...", Reptiles, Asp, Desert at Night, Knights and Pawns, Shrieker, Friends and Enemies, and Demons and Angels)
ARGEN THE DEMON is a cycle of short stories (really, a novel in disguise) that I've been working on for some time now. It was originally going to be a comic book, but the artist didn't really have the time for it in his schedule, so it switched to a fiction format. (For what it's worth, I kind of like it better this way, though whenever Yale draws Argen for me, it excites me to no end.) My girlfriend has described it as a "part fantasy, part superhero, part noir," and I think that's pretty accurate; major influences include Humphrey Bogart movies, Batman, the Rogue class from Dungeons and Dragons, and the film "Hero."
ARGEN THE DEMON is a story about two things: a city and a man who lives within it. The city is the Citadel of Lost Souls, once known as the Northern Gate. Originally meant to be a trade and military hub for the Kingdom of Arnoch's activities in the Great Northern Wastes, the Northern Gate now exists as a prison colony, where the kingdom's undesirables and criminals are deposited and told to begin their lives anew. The man is Argen Torus, once known as the Demon. Years ago, the Demon was a powerful and notorious assassin, part of a group known as the Three Vipers. One day, the Demon simply vanished and was never heard from again, even by his partners. Then, three years later, he appeared in Citadel, having relinquished his name and now operating as a vigilante. His motives for this change are unknown.
ARGEN THE DEMON follows Argen as he battles against the underworld of Citadel and the demons that haunt his past, fighting through the myriad obstacles of weariness, temptation, and corruption in search of redemption.
-Citadel Stories (Reptiles, An Angel in Citadel)
Two more ideas for new stories, both taking place in the same universe as ARGEN THE DEMON. Both take place in Citadel again, which I like and dislike. (I don't want to be pigeonholed, which is why I don't like the idea of doing, for instance, a direct sequel to AtD. Not anytime soon, anyway.)
-The FALL Stories ( The Watcher, Station to Station, Reaching for Da'at, and Fall.)
Sometimes we write in order to make sense of things we don't understand. Fall is kind of like that. I don't understand monotheism, and never have, but I live in a largely monotheistic society. And many parts of the tapestry of Islamo-Judeo-Christian belief fascinate me; there are lots of interesting stories there. But I can't figure how a person believes in it, much the same way I guess most monotheists can't see how somebody can believe in Thor.
Fall was originally known as The Damnation of Heaven and the Salvation of Hell, it was published in one of the campus newspapers, The Monitor, as "Fall." This is a revised version. Though the themes in this story have something to do with the novel I've begun to think about, this story is not considered canonical within that novel (though a variation of it may yet show up in the text.) It's still a pretty good story, in my opinion.
Station to Station had its genesis when I took a class on the Faust legend during the fall semester of my Junior year. It was extremely enlightening and mind-warping. It also gave me one of my favorite characters, who makes an appearance in this story, the infamous Dr. Marianus. That's Mephistopheles, the deal making devil from Faust, in disguise. The story is largely about something that working at a collection agency showed me: a lot of people, as adults, just don't have any kind of dreams or drive, or at least, it's nothing they seem to act on. I'm admittedly being hard on the narrator in this story, because, hell, I wish I had that job, but that's the kind of thing that drove this one. The title is from a David Bowie song.
The Watcher is intended to be the first story in the FALL novel, serving as an argument for the rest: a small encapsulation of the themes of the larger novel. I got inspiration for this from the first book of Enoch, which details the fallen angels known as the Grigori. I felt sorry for the poor guys, myself, and their seemingly unjust punishment by God for doing their duties a little too passionately. I'm really proud of this story, especially because I actually attended each of the services Oz goes to; there was a certain amount of guerrilla literature here.
Reaching for Da'at was a homework assignment for a fiction workshop, in which we were supposed to look at several foci to reveal a character. I happened to choose the first spheres of the Tree of Life.
-Raining in January
Raining in January is an autobiographical story, focusing on the ups and downs of my relationship with a girl I knew in high school. I think it might be the best story in the journal.
- Dear Victor
I wrote this story in the wake of my roommate Vikram being expelled from Truman State because he, well, failed all his classes. Without notice he up and left, and has not spoken to me since; this frequently leaves me with an odd feeling, since I never properly got to say goodbye to someone who I had seen every day for about three years. This story is informed by that incident, even though none of the events are factually true. I presented this as my capstone paper for my English Senior Seminar at Truman State in December 2007.
- A Day in the Life, with iPod
Done partially as a thought experiment, this story takes a guy- a combination of several friends- and explores his day, in particular his relationship with an almost-sort-of-but-not-quite-ex-girlfriend. It's set in Saint Louis and steals many things from my real life, though this one is actual fiction. The title comes from the music being played on the narrator's iPod as he progresses through the day.
- The Meeting at Han Gu Pass
This story was my attempt at writing something in the style of magical realism. The old master is Lao-tsu; the young man is named Lü because, when I first learned to do an I Ching reading, I asked how my fortunes would turn out as a writer and drew the hexagram for "Lü, the Wanderer." I've since taken that as something of a Taoist magical name. Lü's speech at the end is from the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching.
-Frozen Lightning
Short, autobiographical. Published in The Monitor.
-Hourglass
Meant as something of a "Gaiman-esque" short story, with a strange fantasy world and a largely unexplained plot. Published in the Fall 2005 short story issue of The Monitor as "The Hourglass," oddly.
-Ingram (Detective Story) (The original Detective Story; a rewritten version of one of the first scenes is found here.)
Ingram was my attempt to write a hardboiled noir story, set some undefined amount of time in the near future (perhaps fifty years.) I've never finished it, partly because it's the most graphically violent thing I've tried to write and I'm a little afraid of it. I'll come back to it someday, though.
-Film Noir
A sketch. Short, but I like it. I forget if it was originally a poem or the other way around.
- Christmas Eve
I believe the basic image here- a man walking down Cherokee Street in the winter- came to me in a dream. I liked it alot, though.
- Miss You Beautiful
Published in the Monitor's short story issue.
-Jumping
Quasi-autobiographical (it's about me, to be certain, but I never did the things described here), this was the story I challenged myself to finish. Mostly written as a way for me to deal with going away to college, this also probably marked the point at which I definately said my goal in life was to become a writer.
-Heroin
A story I wrote for Mr. Economon's class back in high school. Largely inspired by the film Koyaanisqatsi, and kind of an environmentalist piece, I guess.
The following songs and poems have appeared in the journal. I'll only give commentary on a few that I think are significant. This list is more or less in chronological order.
- Song for Kali, 11-11-02
- For Allison, 4-21-03
- Dream, 9-12-03
- Tell Me, 2-26-04
- The End, 5-5-04
- Nixon Went to China, 6-5-04
- Wider, 10-22-04
- Desperate, 1-11-05
- Everything's Alright, 2-15-05
- Topdecking, 2-22-05
- Theory, 2-24-05
- It Snowed Again Today, 2-27-05
- Saying Goodbye (Again), 5-10-05
- You'll Never Know, 6-13-05
- Peppermints, 7-29-05
- Goodnight Kiss, 9-9-05
- Stream of Conciousness, 7-17-05
- I Never Stayed Up 'Til Six Before, 9-5-05
- 1000 South Franklin, 10-19-05
- Tree Lined Streets, 10-2-05
- Rider, 11-29-05
- Break You, 12-7-05
- Next To You (For SG), 12-19-05
- Obsession, 12-22-05
- Old Pen, 1-22-06
- Snowy Day, 1-24-06
- The Start of Something Beautiful, 1-26-06
- Tundra, 2-22-06
- Film Noir, 2-24-06
- Delta Chi, 2-26-06
- Any Given Saturday, 3/6/06
-Senior Year
-Kissing in the Bathroom
-Any Given Saturday
-Who's Your Boyfriend?
-Not Talking/Not My Fault
-The Waltz
-Dear Joan
-November
-Any Given Saturday (Reprise)
-(I Can't) Save Anyone But Me
-Dear Joan (Reprise)
- Turning Twenty, 3/13/06
- Gideon Wandering, 3/22/06
- A Prayer, 3/25/06
- Every Time It Rains, 4/4/06
-Train to Chicago, 4/11/06
-The Questing Beast, 4/11/06
- Theory, 4/14/06
- Midnight Outside Novinger, 4/24/06
- This Morning, 4/24/06
- Jones Soda, 4/30/06
- Coffee, 5/10/06
- Shopping at Hy-Vee, 5/15/06
- Epicurus, 5/26/06
- Almost, 6/3/06
- The Flow and the Ebb, 6/16/06
- Angry Young Man, 7/3/06
- Smile, 7/6/06
- Rosinante, 1/27/06
- Halloween Night, 8/7/2006
- Life into Boxes, 8/18/2006
- Window Pane, 8/19/2006
- The Evening Star, 8/23/2006
- San Francisco, 8/27/2006
- The Girl Next to Me on the Plane, 8/27/2006
- Geeky Girlfriend, 10/3/2006
- The Dirge of Dreta Phantas, 10/6/2006
- Highways, 10/10/2006
- I Hope It Snows This Christmas, 10/11/2006
- Stream of Conciousness, 11/16/2006
- Like the Fella Once Said, 11/19/2006
- The Moment After Zen, 11/27/2006
- Walking Away From Your Door, 12/13/2006
- Lugh the Sun King, 1/4/2007
- Thermodynamic Miracles, 1/7/2007
- Echoes of the Boxer, 1/20/2007
- Gangleri the Wanderer, 1/26/2007
- Wonderworld, 3/21/2007
- Tao is, 5/24/2007
- Terri, 5/30/2007
- Ukiyo-e, 6/27/2007
- 6:09 Sonnet, 8/17/2007
- Field of Sand, 9/4/2007
- Fasting Past the Sun, 9/11/2007
- Way Out Club, 10/16/2007
- Political Protest, 12/6/2007
- Walking into Ho's, 1/4/2008
- Penelope, 1/13/2008
- Out In the Cold, 2/19/2008
- Death of an Idealist (An Ode to Bacchus), 2/23/2008
- For Jack Kerouac, 3/11/2008
- Under the Bridge, 8/3/2008
"A finished thing is a dead thing."