Ivy Three grows up in a five-thousand-person space station called The Exodus. The ship orbits two hundred and fifty-four miles above planet Earth. It’s a safe space, providing a stable life, a place full of windows where electric trains run, crops sprout from well-organized fields, and workers walk in lines like ants in a colony. Ivy sleeps ...

As Esk translated himself to the moon, he felt a familiar tug at his neural connections. His thoughts were not his own. The Eskerektul Council! The collective consciousness had returned! Esk could not control his excitement at having the Council back until he remembered why he was in such a rush to get to the ...

With the Reverend Bandersnatch and Lod locked up tight in their respective chambers, Esk decided to visit Sam, whom he had not seen in several days. He approached the cabin door and walked in.

Part Twelve Stuarts taps Harry’s shoulder a few times and cries out to rejuvenate him, but there is no response. Finally, he grasps his phone on the bedside table to dial 911. “Hello, what’s your emergency?” a young woman says. “My friend Harry fell in our hotel room, and he will not come to,” Stuart ...

The sheriff questioned Lawrence Pritchard at length about the events that transpired between himself and Reverend Bandersnatch, as well as his relationship history with Jean Bandersnatch. As he was being asked question after question, Deacon Pritchard realized the nature of his wrongdoings, and that he would be angry enough to shoot at his wife’s lover ...

Dr. Severius was just waking from the deepest sleep experienced since his residency days when Esk showed up. Esk seemed troubled. “When are you going to let me go? What are you going to do to me here? And where is ‘here’?” Severius asked. “You know where we are, Lod. Do not try to trick ...

“Law-rence… Law-rence, Honey, where aaare you?” Mrs. Bandersnatch called from Deacon Pritchard’s bed. “I’ll be there in a minute, Jean,” a gravelly voice from the bathroom replied. “I’ll be waitin’, Hon.” “I’m sure ya’ will. I’m… sure…” BANG! Glass shattering and a thud on the bathroom floor certainly got the Chief Gossip’s attention. She ran ...

“Reverend, I would be glad to speak with you outside the diner where we have more privacy,” Esk grunted as the preacher squished him against the wall. “Oh, outside, huh? Ya’ wanna’ take this outside? Sure, ya’ little maggot!” replied Bandersnatch. The Reverend forced Esk’s wrist into an uncomfortable angle, crushing his arm between their ...

Sam led the way down to the state prison office, which Esk marveled at. They house behaviorally inept humans in cages here? Amongst the psychopaths? What is this species thinking? Esk almost tripped over himself to keep up with the warden’s pace past the jeering locked-up humans in orange jumpsuits. They looked much like the ...

Esk parted ways with Sam when they were approximately halfway back to Sam’s cabin.  “There are things I must do, Sam, but I will be back this evening,” Esk said. “Yer okay, ain’t cha’, Esk? I mean, that church service was the most horrible, rotten thing I ever seen done to a person visitin’ an’ ...