He Will Return

I pull the keys out of the ignition and am instantly reminded just how quiet and empty it is out here. Twenty hours, the car's motor my only companion, seperate my new life from the desert and its easy to forget these things.

By:E.C.

I've parked in the midst of ruins, somewhere north of Las Vegas, in the Nevada desert. From the graffiti it's obvious that this place has served as a waystion to travellers like myself for a long time. Crunching through the debris, strewn amidst the gravel, I wander through the concrete stonehenge around me.

My most recent trips into the desert have been different from those of the past. I'm a visitor here now. When I moved 1,000 miles away, into the swamp, I thought things could be the same when I came back. I was wrong.

A few days later I sat among old friends at our old hangout. For a moment, while the others talked and laughed, I thought to myself quietly, lost in self-reflection. why did I keep coming back? What was I looking for here now? I didn't have the answers.

Friends ask over phone calls and email messages when I plan on visiting, in the past I was full of assuarances that I'd come every chance I got. I'm less sure now and the time spent away streches on. One day I'll return. But it could be a while.

By:E.C.

By:E.C.

One of these wrapper sold for $37.00 on Ebay.

-2016-
bayou goula towhead

-2015-
the sea test

-2014-
the circumnavigator pt5
the circumnavigator pt4
the circumnavigator pt3
the circumnavigator pt2
the circumnavigator pt1
falling dream
the darkness
one hell of a mile 3&4
he will return
the believers
the horror pt2
the horror pt1
traces
death valley
whiteout

-2013-
paradise of outlaws
the mountain climbers 1&2
brought to surface
one hell of a mile 3
primordial
the lost world
inner gorge
a ghost story
the riddle
slaying the minotaur
heart of darkness
bayou
public lands
organ music
two sought adventure
the virgin river
the road north
preparations

-2012-
steal the world
the end of the world
el dorado
the valley of the kings 2
the valley of the kings 1
one hell of a mile 2
one hell of a mile 1
the mountain climbers rr4
heroes rr3
rainy roadtrip 2
rainy roadtrip 1
the transgression
sandstorm
sinister 2
sinister 1
dehydrated
anatomy
sleepwalking
new chapter

-2011-
like sedona?
torn in two
blink
bridge to nowhere
the door
hitting the wall
elusive 2
elusive 1
harquahala
hole
pick up lines

-2010-
revisited 2
revisited 1
which way?
lost mines
chute
monolith
freeze
slice
in their footsteps
a dance with death

-2009-
goodbyes
undercurrents
casting the bones
mountain thief
the deer hunter
strange temple
sanctuary
burial pt. 3
burial pt. 2
burial pt. 1
the apparition
return to hell
forsaken
the lower depths
underground lake
stretch sewer
the hidden lab
shadow movements
meager rations
sw8: the conclusion
sw7: lost gold mines
sw6: the big tubes
sw5: gold!
sw4: el calderon
sw3: redondo
sw2: ghosts
sw1: westward bound
leviathan
formaldehyde dreams
the underdark
in the beginning