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Chapter 10: A Penance Play
I fall down and down and down, into a yet-deeper version of the story, which is also a version of the show I remember so well from my college days.
Mar 11, 2021
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February 2021
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
Feb 10, 2021
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November 2020
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…
Nov 27, 2020
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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…
Nov 12, 2020
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October 2020
Chapter 6: Franz Joseph in a Coma
In which I find myself in a monastery, under the needle of the Quay Brothers
Oct 1, 2020
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August 2020
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…
Aug 17, 2020
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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"
Aug 5, 2020
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July 2020
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…
Jul 3, 2020
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June 2020
Chapter 2: First Night in Berkshire
Arrival in town; I meet Flap at the Commodore; a disorienting stroll through what's become of the campus.
Jun 19, 2020
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April 2020
Chapter 1: Return to Berkshire
Ominous signs in the city, a surprise letter, an eerie train journey due north.
Apr 20, 2020
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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…
Welcome to Spine & Arp: The Series by me, David Leo Rice. I'm a writer of dark and surreal fiction from Northampton, MA. My novels include A Room in…
Apr 10, 2020
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