Isotropes: A Collection of Speculative Haibun

By T.J. McIntyre

TJ McIntyre’s stunning collection of haibun packs a library full of ideas into a compact space. With genres ranging from sci-fi to fairytale to realism, Isotropes is as unclassifiable as it is brilliant.

(Haibun: a literary composition that combines prose and haiku.)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Philistine Press
• Release date: Sep 22, 2010
• ISBN: 9781458026538

T.J. McIntyre

Writer. Editor. Husband. Father. Weirdo!

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Isotropes

A Collection of Speculative Haibun

By T.J. McIntyre

Published by Philistine Press at Smashwords

Copyright 2010 TJ McIntyre

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Contents

1. Knots

2. Promethean Petri Dish

3. The Orphans in the Wood

4. Homecoming

5. Birth on New Terra

6. The Revolutionary Behind the Tavern

7. Football Weather

8. When We Moved Underground

9. The Widower

10. Molten Uprising

11. Where Grass Faded into Sky

12. Martyred

13. The Sea Wife Retrieves Her Man

14. The Cabin in the Woods

15. Time & Place

Cover art by Joni Mustone

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Promethean Petri Dish was first published in Scifaikuest.

Knots

When the winds first blew down from the outer tip of Olympus, it carried with it the dust of time, of loss, of empty years that went on for far too long without any meaning. There was an ache spanning the entirety of the crater itself. We did not notice at first, but that was all before things went bad.

the hanging bodies

swaying from cords in closets

blood lost