Mudlark No. 16 (2001)
Contents
The Breeze Fluttered Tapestry: April
Where I Introduce The Antagonists: The Duchess of Moisture,
The Empress of Waterfowl
When the Grape Became Purple: The Aged Genii
Recalls the War of His Kind Against The Moisture Duchess
Why We Sometimes Don't Say Anything in Dreams: Monkey Boy
The Duchess of Moisture Writes With the Femur of a Heron's Leg:
Her Autobiography, the Early Years
Monkey Boy's In-Class English Theme: Greaser Angel
and a Desperado Heart; Monkey Boy Tries to Forget Felicia
Angel's Passion: Greaser Angel and Monkey Boy
Park Off the Deep Woods Road
Where I Comment Upon the Main Action in These Tapestries So Far
The Starfish Song: The Biologist Doctor Gwilliam,
After Years in His Laboratory
What the Leech Oracle Prophesies: The Fate of These Tapestries
A Reminiscence of Early Loves: Why Moonlight Moves Across the Sky
More From Her Autobiography: The Duchess of Moisture
Tells Me How She Fell in Love With and Grew to Hate Moonlight
Why We Get What We Can Get: Monkey Boy
Hangs Out With The Squirrels
The Tapestry of Wishing: Where I Tell How The Duchess of Moisture's
Revenge Against Moonlight and Those Closest to Him Began
Turtle Story: Turtle Tells How He Ferried Me to The Dolphin Queen
When She Summoned Me at My Wishes' Behests
The Dolphin Queen: Turtle and Caterpillar Enter The Citadel
of Pearl, Only to Find The Duchess Has Been There First
The Duchess' Destruction of Earth's 999 Moons:
Her Account of Recent Events, Both On and Off the Record
Graduation Ceremony: Monkey Boy,
in Heaven now, Learns to be an Angel
Why Memory Grows Fonder the Farther You Go: Where I Find Postcard
Scraps From When Moonlight Escaped to the Universe's Edge
The Tapestry of Leaves: What I Read When I Chance to Find
Three Unfinished Journal Entries, Early Drafts
From The Duchess of Moisture's Autobiography
The Tapestry of Images: Where I Find The Duchess of Moisture
Sighing/Singing to Herself as She Looks at Her Reflection in the Pond
Monkey Boy, Returning to Earth as a Single Red Rose, Helps Out
a Friend, With Lascivious Thoughts, Running on a Country Road
My Final Words: Where I Take Notes On My Execution
The Final Tapestry: (To Be Read After My Death)