Contents

1. Cover
2. Disclaimer
3. Title Page
4. Copyright
5. Dedication
6. Epigraph
7. PROLOGUE: The clan of the petrified bat
8. BOOK ONE: The origin of everything.
   1. Hippie weirdo freaks
   2. The origin of the bat
   3. The ballad of Darla O’Brien
   4. Everything tasted like radiation
   5. The Zone System
   6. Boobs
   7. Empty plastic
   8. Obligate parasites can’t live without a host
   9. Say that in a sheep voice
   10. Saturday—It’s complicated
   11. The ballad of Max Black (aka God)
   12. The clan of the petrified bat
   13. Twoooeee-toooo-tooo-tooo
   14. The big joke was
   15. Glory O’Brien, atomic bomb
   16. Why people take pictures
   17. I am no one special
   18. Jupiterians
   19. It was the nineties
9. BOOK TWO: The consequence of the bat.
   1. The world is never what it seems
   2. Free yourself. Have the courage.
   3. I would fly
   4. Pay to the order of
   5. Can you believe it, Glory?
   6. Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
   7. Most people can’t handle it
   8. I couldn’t think of a title
   9. Ripping meat from the bone
   10. Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
   11. What if we’re stuck like this?
   12. Very
   13. Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
   14. The clan of the petrified bat
   15. How stuck I felt
   16. Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
   17. Ellie didn’t give a shit about chlorofluorocarbons
   18. Ferret Company will sniff out exiles
   19. You can tell by the hair
   20. Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
   21. Am I making sense?
10. BOOK THREE: The road to nowhere.
    1. Shit, Cupcake
    2. Everything serves to further
    3. There’s got to be another door
    4. Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
    5. What do you think makes you different?
    6. That’s a high bar
    7. Cancer enchiladas
    8. Would we care more?
    9. Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
    10. Innocence sells
    11. I felt like a ghost
    12. I’m not normal
    13. Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
    14. Minesweeper
    15. Beer
    16. Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
    17. How’s Glory?
11. BOOK FOUR: Remnants of the future.
    1. Who knew?
    2. Layers
    3. Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
    4. People still do that
    5. The Sniper
    6. I would live
    7. That’s all
    8. Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
    9. I can’t see… anything
    10. Darla Darla Darla
    11. Like, today
    12. Oh well
    13. Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
12. Acknowledgments