The Back of Our Heads

A first-person report presents a nonhuman consciousness that migrates through lives and forms, testifying about repeated deaths, splits into components, and encounters with human groups. Episodes range from a teens' diner encounter leading to a fatal car wreck, to becoming a cat and being executed as possessed, to primitive scenes of fire and pottery invention. The narrative alternates testimony and vignette to examine identity, the interplay between individual eccentricity and pack-like social behavior, and the strangeness of consciousness across time.