Part 1: Life on Earth
I arrive on Earth in the usual way
and depart most unusually.
In between, I search for Love, Justice and Truth.
It may surprise the reader to find
how a seemingly unremarkable life
can take such a sudden and
impossibly remarkable turn.
Chapter 1: Beginnings
1.a Greetings from another century
1.b High hopes and stumbles
1.c Transitions
1.d Surviving
1.e A brush with the numinous
1.f Crisis
1.g Something new
1.h Confirmations
Chapter 2: Love & Other Things
2.a I change directions
2.b In which I fall in love
2.c Some important yeses
2.d Settling in
2. e Irony rears its head
2.f Malignancies
2.g I schmooze with the Devil
2.h Plot thickenings
Chapter 3: Suspended Between Worlds
3.a I lose too much
3.b well, that didn’t turn out like I intended…
3.c Crawling out of the ooze
3.d Things start to crack. Open
Chapter 4: No, I’m not making this up
4.a Things get very weird, very fast
4.b Pivot point
4.c The truth is out there. Way out there.
4.d The Plan, and reinforcements
4.e Murder, I wrote
Chapter 5: Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated
5.a Double, double, toil and trouble
5.b Sure
5.c Spirits’ dance
5.d Exits