The kind of stone ledge Steve might’ve been sitting on in Chapter 24 … It’s a volcanic basalt boulder known as rhyolite.

The kind of stone ledge Steve might’ve been sitting on in Chapter 24 … It’s a volcanic basalt boulder known as rhyolite.

Another iteration of a very useful photo … even a simple software program such as Preview can change and change and change an original. But only, in my experience, if the original photo had depth and variety.
Rather than expanding the original short chapters with bloat, I decided might as well continue posting them two at the time.
Dusk through the trees at the cross-roads … a snapshot from Chapter 22

A great photo of a storm by Anna Carson, check out her work here …


This illustration from an image service, Pixabay I believe. I’ve had the image in my files for quite a while. I just checked Google image service but no owner came up, just that a fractal process was used to generate it.
It’s called Blueyellowcontours.jpeg. I thought It an appropriate illustration of what Lilly’s “pretty water” might’ve looked like.


The Book of Life and its characters escaping … seemed like an appropriate companion to Tardi’s trials in the the next chapter …