First Serving

by Ice Rivers

Maybe some of you have met Ice before. I've been with him all the way. Thousands and thousands of stories read by tens of thousands to say nothing of the Ethereal Serial Trilogy. Yeah. Lotta typing. All of it has been a puzzle of creativity with puzzle pieces arriving in random order followed by occasional attempts to discern how they go together along with the suspicion that more than one puzzle is under construction which means not every piece fits in any particular puzzle In that circumstance, Ice has a tendency to undervalue the fragmentary pieces that are waiting for their puzzle to arrive which in fact may never happen. I call these entries servings but they are also keys to what comes later and in many ways help to clarify the larger puzzles that you will find in the Ethereal Serial Trilogy or as Joe Kenda might say after finding new clues that might lead to the solution of a cold case...."What have we here". Each of the servings has value in adding clarity to whichever puzzle it eventually became either part of or inspiration for. Ice would never call himself a poet but a lot of what others might call poetry emerged as servings on their way to contributing to the clarity/mystery of the whole shebang. So here are a few of the opening servings in the order in which they were written offered in the hope that a form of chronological playback will emerge and contribute to the understanding of the trilogy while at the same time, the trilogy will add validity to the servings.



These are some of the servings that went into the banquet of Ethereal Serial.



Or something like that.

127 pages, Paperback

Published June 16, 2024