Incense & Insensibility

Tim’s collection of short stories and sketches about Santa Zita. Containing many of the same characters and situations, but with no clear narrative.

One reviewer said:

A mish-mash of alternative rock, meaningless sex, recreational chemical abuse, and third-rate philosophizing, appears to regard narrative as an “un-cool” artifact of the western civilization that has spawned the cultural forces of which this is the lamentable but perhaps inevitable end result.

Meandering, converging, diverging, always threatening to engage the reader, but never actually doing so, the collection is like a conversation with a random stranger who at first seems to be charming and witty, but is later revealed to be clinically insane. A conversation that one stumbled into, but is very hard to end. Every time it seems like it will, a new tangent is spun off. Like a never-ending sequence of beginning without finishing.