My Blog Week: June 23 to June 29

Posted by ractrose on 30 Jun 2019 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                       (Click the title above to see two more panels, click image to enlarge.)       A Word on the Week   Self-Appointed Caretakers       A thing I hadn’t noticed in the news cycle before (or noticed […]

A Friend: Third Tourmaline (conclusion)

Posted by ractrose on 29 Jun 2019 in Fiction, Novels

Tourmaline A Friend (conclusion)               Herward’s impulse to friendship could not be blunted by the dull sequestering of Anton’s mind. He called again, and when all the silver was polished, and the furniture sat adorned with it, winking at envy, the corporal made a suggestion. “Some of the new […]

The Totem-Maker: Winter Alone (part eight)

Posted by ractrose on 28 Jun 2019 in Fiction, Novels

The Totem-Maker Chapter Five Winter Alone (part eight)             But the thought came. As it does, when one feels put in the wrong. That I would fix this, I would sweep them all into their pouch, my tiles. Break the already broken tablet…that in false humility I ought not to […]

La Catastrophe de la Martinique: sixty-two

Jean Hess La Castastrophe de la Martinique (sixty-two)                               XXXVIII The Life in Saint-Pierre Under the Menace of the Volcano Documents and interviews   Of what life was in Saint-Pierre, during the days leading up to the catastrophe, one can form […]

A Friend: Third Tourmaline (part two)

Posted by ractrose on 24 Jun 2019 in Fiction, Novels

Tourmaline A Friend (part two)               “My son,” she told him, “has just come home. I can’t say what he plans to do.” “I think I know Anton.” He’d surprised her with this. Anton had not put the kettle on for his cocoa, or put his plate in the oven […]

My Blog Week: June 16 to June 22

Posted by ractrose on 23 Jun 2019 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                           A Word on the Week   Crazy Times, Part Two       It’s necessary to mention Nazis. In October of 1933, Germany, having a new Chancellor, and its government thrusting off in a new direction, chose […]

A Friend: Third Tourmaline (part one)

Posted by ractrose on 22 Jun 2019 in Fiction, Novels

Tourmaline A Friend (part one)               Mrs. Leonhardt had taken out all the old silver. Her mother’s silver, her own, the sugars and the salt cellars that she for a time had always been buying, always poking through the second-hand markets, offering half the asking price for anything blackened, […]

La Catastrophe de la Martinique: sixty-one

Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (sixty-one)                 The metropolis at once gave testimony to the lively interest she bears for Martinique, and how sorrowfully ring in France the echoes of the catastrophe where forty thousand Martiniquais, forty thousand French, found death. M. Decrais, Colonial Minister, and […]

Palma: Second Tourmaline (conclusion)

Posted by ractrose on 17 Jun 2019 in Fiction, Novels

Tourmaline Palma (conclusion)                   And these pains, depressions, madnesses, that waved across the city, were the reason her people, quarantined within a color-wheel of central sectors, had not by force been disarmed. The pills given at the health clinic would finish David, not his back and his […]

My Blog Week: June 9 to June 15

Posted by ractrose on 16 Jun 2019 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                           A Word on the Week   Energy is Strategy       This is the topic heading I put down in my notes, with the idea I might sort of fudge it in, because I’ve been doing […]