Spine & Arp: The Series

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Chapter 9: A Doomed Outing in Vienna
I become Arp, imprisoned in the Pale Oaks, where I am free only to pet the Spine and stroll through a Viennese nightmare with Dubravka
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Chapter 8: Escape from Spine & Arp
In which I plunge into an ominous cartoon on a pirate channel from the 80s, attempt a dangerous journey across the ruined BerkshireArts campus, and…
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Chapter 7: The Berkshire Big Ideas Festival
In which my many selves bear the puppet-Emperor to the Commodore for his big speech; Flap tells of bloodshed in Butte; and I escape the fray only to…
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Chapter 6: Franz Joseph in a Coma
In which I find myself in a monastery, under the needle of the Quay Brothers
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Chapter 5: “Ever Eastward, Deeper into Europe”
A nocturnal train journey through ruined territory; eerie signs about what lies beyond Berkshire; the Bomb, slumbering underground; a last-minute…
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Chapter 4: First Day of Classes and First Evening at the Decline of Empire
On Pynchon's V., an endlessly climbing ape, and Professor Squimbop II's "Legacy of ANGEL HOUSES"
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Chapter 3: The Zagreb International Animation Festival
In which I supposedly meet Arp for the first time in the Mirogoj Cemetery, and the nature of deja vu and recursion in Berkshire grows clearer and more…
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Spine & Arp: The Series
A serial novel about a return to a crumbling New England town after the supposed end of the world, and the art school that's thriving in its dark heart.

Spine & Arp: The Series

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