1	The House of Cards »
I open the box. Inside are the scattered leaves of broken cards, shards of images jumbled together in an incoherent mess. I pick up a piece, and it isn't a playing card any more . . .
2	Crossing »
The sea is tempestuous, and the boat groans continually at the battering it takes from the waves. The deck is slick with spray, and the sails strain in their rigging. The Ribbon Man . . .
3	Island »
The island is nothing more than a spit of rock that reaches out of the thrashing sea like the skeletal finger of an old sea god. Surrounding it is a maze of submerged rocks and coral reefs . . .
4	Ceremony »
A path, lined with yellow flowers leads into the confusion of blooms, and caught in the timelessness of this realm, are a party dressed in fancy clothes . . .
5	Marriage »
At the center of the garden of flowers and stones, there is a plaza and a large pit of smoldering black stones. When the Ribbon Man and I arrive, the first coffin is pushed down an incline, and the box bumps and rattles out into the center of the pit . . .
6	Tarot »
The Tarot were never intended to be divinatory agents. They were playing cards, co-opted by successive generations of occultists to be tools of their trade. An imagined history of the world was written into their subtext . . .
7	Threshold »
"As with all things, the path of the dreamer is composed of three parts: the triple layer of the phases, the doubled stages, and the pure planes of the thresholds . . .
8	Reflection »
This is the end, and while I am saddened by its arrival, I know that it must come to pass . . .
9	My Children »
I realize this letter may strike you as an egregious hoax, and I hope that you will have enough faith to read it through to the end before you pass judgment . . .
10	Telegram »
I'm going to Brazil . . .
11	A Bear In The House of Cards »
"Not a very useful bear, are you?" . . . [art]