The Wages, An Illustrated Story
A black-winged country singer recalls 58 years of life as she crosses a dangerous wasteland to the void, where she must battle a murderous demon bent on destroying the world she left behind.

The Wages, An Illustrated Story by Charles F. Vincent


This story site is a work in progress. You can read a sample chapter here.

The Wages is recommended for mature readers, and there is a list of content warnings here.


Navigating and reading this site:

This website is configured to be read on many types of device but will be best enjoyed on a tablet or reader in the vertical position, like a book.

Turn the pages with the ‘Previous page’ and ‘Next page’ buttons in each page banner or footer. The text size defaullts to 100 percent but the the size can be adjusted in your browser. As you continue to read, your place can be bookmarked with a bookmark in your browser.

Each link in the Table of Contents below leads to an index for that chapter with links to each illustrated page.


Table of Contents


The Wages, Set One: Setting The Stage

1. Confessional Poetry

2. Murder Ballad

3. All of the Things That We Are Given

4. Radio Play

5. Evangeline and Eve

6. An Old Soldier

7. Can’t Touch a Dream (But You Can Feel It)

8. Double Dear Dreams

9. Answers to Prayers

10. Cold Super-Strikes


The Wages, Set Two: Story Songs

11. Masterstroke

12. Mudslingers

13. A Marked Woman

14. Crystal’s Clarity

15. Angela’s December

16. The Flooded Hotel

17. The Room Where They Tell You

18. Watch Yourself

19. The Stream of Tears

20. Captured and Categorized


The Wages, Set Three: The Finale

21. Pictures of Purpose

22. Battle Fires

23. Songs and Parables - Sample chapter

24. Lies That Aren't Lies Are Lies

25. Changes in the Body

26. The Lone Sister

27. When Daughters Become Angels

28. The Long Song of Finding

29. The Void Aviatrix

30. The Wages


Contact Charles F. Vincent | Instagram @charlesfvincent | cv @ charlesvincent dot ca