POM
Spring - Book One
Sin-Chon & Seoul
Goodbye Candyland
The Cabal
Not on the Map
Happy Mountains
Little River
Broken Promises
Over the Rainbow
Cadre Corner
TOP Knows...
Baigneuse de Odalisques
Lottery Club
Watchtower
Songhi! Songhi!
Houseboy
The Nigger Demosthenes
Terpshichore’s Daughters
Salley Port Hubbub
Snowball
Little Mamasan
Eyeless in Gaza
A Better Mousetrap
The Block
Green Door
Won! Won! MPC Money!


YORUM
Summer - Book Two
Smudges
Moegu, Moegu
Miss Ameeraka
Blood on the Floor
Miss Chong
Cockatrice
Bright Red Pumps
Remember Me?
Head & Humidity
Mama - Yobo
Whosh-Whosh-Whosh.
Miss Paik
Jeezus
Close Shave
Red Sox!
Movie Time
Monet Best
Knife
Old Bitch
Pachyderm Protocol
No Butterfly
Where’s Gunga Din
Zeus & Ganymede
Sukapu
Ars Moriendi!
Wiggley Piggley
Parrhasios’ Grapes

seasons in the kingdom
contents

View toward the southeast from stockade tower. Cellblock is the building on the left, inside the wire of the stockade.

Local village near the stockade compound.

Kyongbok-gung
"The Palace of Shining Happiness"

KAUL
Autumn - Book Three
New Home
Box Scores
You Sleep
The Bath
Sanctuary
Man and a Tiger
Dreams of Ameeraka
Noodle? Right?
Lucy in the Sky
Mambo
Kristi’s Banquet
Cherry Moons
Gunslinger
Kkumdingy
Red Peppers
Yom Kippur
What’s Cooking?
Little Mistake
Celebrities
Hearts? Rummy?
Secret Garden
Big Surprises
Woodstock
Daffy Duck
Mekong Dreams
Taster’s Choice
TDY
Nuna, Nuna!
Waegwan

KYOUL
Winter - Book Four
HQ
Wives & Yobos
Why Come Late?
Extra Duty
Ciken
Wedding Day
Winter Night
Get Mike!
Peppers & Pine
Small Victories
Sweet Cakes & Cookies
Heart & Liver
Songhi & Komo
Happy Day
Unhappy Day
Aigo Chukketta
Unhappy Mountains
Polar Bear
Kut
Ajuma Letters
Vision after the Sermon
Mysteries in the Ville
Butterfly
Little Sister
Finding an Excuse??
Memories & Ambitions
ZigZag
Ne Plus Ultra

Preface: Return to the Kingdom - 1973-74
Note on Language
Maps

contents

Photo provided by Ronnie Partin from MP Yearbook. Pak, the bartender at the Cadre Corner NCO club.

Cadre Corner EM Club with village Church in background, and hills separating Ascom City from Inchon.

Snowball

Glossaries
Korean Language Glossary
GI Slang & Military Term Glossary
Acknowledgements