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Soma
or
T. Van Santana
&
The Annals of Time
a novel about time and life
by
T. Van Santana
Copyright © 2017 by The Van Santana Limited Company
All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof
may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever
without the express written permission of the publisher
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Advance reading copy, 2017
About the author
T Van Santana lives and works in Richmond, Virginia. They have two kids and two cats.
T is the Lead Editor for Ellowrites, a writing community on Ello.co, The Creators Network. Find T there @tvansantana and @ellowrites.
Support T's novels through monthly patronage at patreon.com/tvs.
July
Vermillion Miles (7.1.17)
Field mice (7.2.17)
The time out of mind (7.2.17)
When I'm out there (7.2.17)
Great cosmic em (7.2.17)
Get that green grow (7.2.17)
Introducing ... (7.3.17)
Notes from the Stiletto Room (7.4.17)
Eating out (7.4.17)
The Bathysphere of the Second Era (7.4.17)
Wild (7.5.17)
A loon (7.5.17)
Live give (7.6.17)
Throw a stone (7.6.17)
Ice cream club and questions of the eternal (7.6.17)
A city of senders (7.6.17)
Twilight tyme (7.7.17)
State of things (7.8.17)
Dream 82 (7.9.17)
The road to Minosha with Scythia and Buckhorn (7.9.17)
Enter Az (7.10.17)
Wages of center, split (7.11.17)
Mistook (7.12.17)
Portrait of a Jungle summer suburb (7.12.17)
Did ah ever make it to the Red? (7.12.17)
Worshippers of the Meganega (7.13.17)
The Twofold Want (7.13.17)
That alchemy of the eternal internal (7.14.17)
I threw it in there before (7.14.17)
Pem has something important to say (7.14.17)
What yer girl wants (7.14.17)
I do (7.15.17)
For consumption (7.15.17)
Amel Farouche (7.15.17)
Light leaks in (7.16.17)
Life underground (7.16.17)
Savages, in fine clothes (7.16.17)
Dangerous game (7.16.17)
When being tired is enough to make me stop (7.17.17)
A secret connection (7.17.17)
Dreams locked up tight (7.18.17)
Eat (7.19.17)
In a white house, with black Fürstin (7.19.17)
A new morning routine (7.20.17)
Fancy is as fancy does (7.20.17)
That old chestnut (7.20.17)
Lights out at the Brubaker (7.21.17)
Motions, by firelight (7.21.17)
The price of involvement (7.22.17)
The essential conflict (7.24.17)
Grin in, me out (7.24.17)
Workshop (7.25.17)
Meanwhile, in the Ministry of Ignorance ... (7.27.17)
Dat fuckin' Grin, tho (7.27.17)
Sycophant's sicko dance (7.27.17)
Hi rolla (7.28.17)
She's not yet (7.29.17)
The layout of hate (7.31.17)
August
The Illustrious Carys (8.3.17)
Hold, repeat, deny (8.5.17)
Some fuckin’ dozens (a warm-up) (8.9.17)
Wet feet—part 1 of prolly 3, maybe jus 2; I dunno yet (8.9.17)
Henna hurts over it (8.9.17)
Pulled on a lap (8.9.17)
Wet feet—part 2 of 3 (8.10.17)
Knowns Into a Known (8.11.17)
untitled (8.11.17)
Signs of wildlife—part 1 (8.11.17)
Dimensional burn (8.12.17)
Lace Z (8.11.17)
Don mind me (8.13.17)
Signs of wildlife—a brief romantic interlude (8.13.17)
Signs of wildlife—part 2 (8.14.17)
Time to shrine (8.15.17)
untitled (8.16.17)
Come-back (8.16.17)
In an alley (8.16.17)
Faces, in night (8.16.17)
The Somatic Plane (8.17.17)
Contracts of the spirit (8.24.17)
Faces in that picture (8.25.17)
Uncertainty is truth (8.25.17)
Masked (8.28.17)
Can't break the sky (8.29.17)
Truth comes from travel (8.29.17)
Two, arranged differently (8.31.17)
September
Flow (9.1.17)
Things I recall (9.1.17)
Night of threes (9.1-2-3.17)
Az's request (9.3-4.17)
Help is when you find it (9.5.17)
Promulge once more (Introduction of the else) (9.6.17)
Identification of approval—Part 1 of about 5 (9.6.17)
Among the sands of Ego (9.6.17)
One September (9.10.17)
Autumn leaves Summer (9.10.17)
untitled with Terry (9.11.17)
Reg calls. (9.11.17)
Breathe (9.21.17)
Pinion No. 31 (9.26.17)
The worst's clueless (9.26.17)
Desire/identification (9.27.17)
The sleepyhouse—part 1 (9.29.17)
Fall comes to Soma (9.29.17)
The sleepyhouse—part 2 (9.29.17)
Day trip with Pembroke—part 1 (9.30.17)
Day trip with Pembroke—part 2 (9.30.17)
Day trip with Pembroke—part 3 (9.30.17)
Day trip with Pembroke—part 4 (10.3.17)
The sleepyhouse: burn this motherfucker down—part 1 (10.4.17)
The sleepyhouse: burn this motherfucker down—part 2 (10.6.17)
Persuasion in blue (10.7.17)
The sleepyhouse: burn this motherfucker down—part 3 (10.7.17)
Don miss dat, tho (10.7.17)
Sacred ties would never fray—part 1 (10.8.17)
The sleepyhouse: burn this motherfucker down—part 4 (10.8.17)
Sacred ties would never fray—part 2 (10.8.17)
Sacred ties would never fray—part 3 (10.9.17)
Sacred ties would never fray—part 4 (10.9.17)
Sacred ties would never burn this motherfucker down (10.9.17)
(10.15.17)
Clara stranded (10.20.17)
Az’s job—part 1: on the wheel (10.20.17)
Enter Decona (10.20.17)
The Wake Up (10.31.17)
Lika ghost (10.31.17)
The Banks of Soma (10.31.17)
Excessively complicated (10.31.17)
Therein (11.1.17)
The breakdown (11.2.17)
As you go, come tomorrow (11.3.17)
Swappin’ books wit da devil (11.4.17)
Never did (11.5.17)
Hard candy and broken teeth (11.5.17)
Rancor (11.5.17)
Casualties (11.5.17)
Bleed like me (11.6.17)
At the Grindhouse, stage 1—tied to a chair (11.7.17)
At the Grindhouse, stage 2—erection (11.7.17)
Fucking guildism: a complaint in microchapter (11.7.17)
Examination (11.7.17)
At the Grindhouse, stage 3—emancipation (11.8.17)
The description of the Grindhouse—EXT (11.8.17)
Am I wrong? (11.9.17)
Meet Zadok Spitz (11.10.17)
Mordant casuistry (11.10.17)
Kurk (11.10,12.17)
Boot on the throat of the Man (11.12.17)
Own worst critic—part 1 (11.12.17)
Itinerant rage (11.13.17)
Own worst critic—part 2 (11.13.17)
Own worst critic—part 2, part 2
Own worst critic—part 2, part 3
Amel’s birthday (11.14.17)
Guy with the book next door (11.14.17)
A valley, through the middle of mah soul (11.15.17)
All today’s parties—first stop (11.16.17)
The Ballad of Avan and Amel (11.17.17)
Stop 2—Pem’s place (11.17.17)
Stop 3—Avan’s island party (11.18.17)
Stop 4—Dani’s fire pyre (11.18.17)
Stop 5—Ecks marks mah spot (11.18.17)
A gathering of worders (11.18.17)
Moisture from Molten Farm (11.18.17)
The light of better reason (11.18.17)
In need of resuscitating (11.18.17)
Belmonte (11.18,20.17)
Never know (11.20.17)
Imagine me and you, as a two (11.22.17)
Eaten from the inside (11.22.17)
Maybe I’m the fool (Own worst critic—part 3) (11.22.17)
Divested (11.23.17)
In the Coconut Grove (11.24.17)
Dye-a-tribe (11.24.17)
Tass Acholic (11.25.17)
Pem flounces (11.25.17)
Rhi comes to town (11.25.17)
Café Tredici and the time passed (11.25.17)
Synapsed (11.25.17)
Barely still counts (11.26.17)
Desolate Candy—part 1 of let’s say 6 (11.28.17)
The Minosha meet (11.29.17)
Relief (11.30.17)
Underground! (12.8.17)
Dispatched in a thousand faces (12.10.17)
Eulogium (12.11.17)
The end. (12.11.17)
In the library eternal & dream #149 (12.12.17)
Canto 1: of waking (12.14.17)
Canto 2: of meeting (12.14.17)
Canto 3: of bonding (12.14.17)
Second attempt: the three books (12.14.17)
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