Defiant Dispatch: A Traveler Soundtrack
While I took inspiration from many songs while writing Traveler, these seven are referenced in the book.
Noon on a Saturday
South Congress is the Austin strip, a tourist magnet. It's also on top of a hill, with about ten thousand more hills between me and it.
Barefoot, with a Sword
I'm not one for princesses, unless they come bearing swords.
Kindreds in Pursuit of a Life
Chris Hardwick is interviewing Paul McCartney, and I can't stop smiling: McCartney is so good.
Chaos and Two Sweaters
"I just realized I don't need to go to work for another hour," Jer says to me one morning. "So I could have been without pants this whole time."
A Rare Poem, about Spring
(While listening to Pilgrims on a Long Journey)
Bare trees, branches
cold beneath iron skies,
frost biting down on the
Bookends
I open the blinds in the morning and see two pudgy robins chasing each other through a tangle of gray branches, and I know winter is over.
Telepathy, and an Excerpt
When I was young, nine or ten, I used to try mind reading.
