Yoharie: Because Society (part five)

Yoharie: Because Society (part five)

Posted by ractrose on 31 Aug 2020 in Fiction, Novels

Yoharie Because Society (part five)             Why, he meant. What are you really saying? Time, Giarma. “Trevor, I think people should not get married.” She found her hands doing Power Point gestures. “I can’t fix this until I hear how it comes out, so hang in. What it is, is… […]

My Blog Week: August 23 to August 29

Posted by ractrose on 30 Aug 2020 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                             A Word on the Week   False Scruples         For a moment, let’s consider a recent Pew Research Center report of August 11, which finds that the term Latinx is used by only […]

The Totem-Maker: Crafter Becomes Maker (part six)

Posted by ractrose on 24 Aug 2020 in Fiction, Novels

The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Crafter Becomes Maker (part six)           The Kale-Kale had built Toboro on the strength of their fine craftworkings: the potters, the stonemasons, the jewelers, the weavers. They lived on the sea, they traded by the sea, but did not much sail or fish. The fire mountain left […]

My Blog Week: August 16 to August 22

Posted by ractrose on 23 Aug 2020 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                             A Word on the Week       Readers, we are here within the Safe Box o’ Fiction, to moot a theoretical scenario. President Whump has again thought of a clever thing. It’ll be a big […]

The Totem-Maker: Crafter Becomes Maker (part five)

Posted by ractrose on 17 Aug 2020 in Fiction, Novels

The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Crafter Becomes Maker (part five)             Speaking, she rummaged in a chest. These threats pleased me not, but if she would trust me, I might exalt upon that and ask my god’s forgiveness later. In this silence of calculating the politic answer, I lost my chance […]

My Blog Week: August 9 to August 15

Posted by ractrose on 16 Aug 2020 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                   Marching Orders:  American citizens, let Monday, August 17, be the day you go to your county’s Board of Elections website, and put in your request for a mail-in ballot, if that’s the way you plan to vote this year. When you […]

Push (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 12 Aug 2020 in Art, Poems

      Push   Fashioned as a closet with a window and shelves in the lower third unmounted A superman-booth made for withdrawing A nook with a desk and chair arrangement for the filling out of questionnaires unsuspected occupation for retired clerics A keyhole in the wall for peering The vista peered upon a […]

Yoharie: Because Society (part four)

Posted by ractrose on 10 Aug 2020 in Fiction, Novels

Yoharie Because Society (part four)               “Nice when you don’t have to punch the clock.” He rummaged the tote he’d taken, which was Cathlyn’s, logoed NCBHS over a tree half-leaved…behavioral affliction in allegory. Cathlyn had packed them her spotting scope and tripod, her guidebooks; and, in her completist way, […]

My Blog Week: August 2 to August 8

Posted by ractrose on 9 Aug 2020 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                             A Word on the Week   Facing the Facts         It has always been racist for the news media to treat the whitest part of the United States as though it were only […]

Eight: Self-Control (poetry series)

Posted by ractrose on 5 Aug 2020 in Art, Poems

      Self-Control   We enter the scene at an awkward moment pending the interview where the two where alive to tell the other’s fate he shuffles a windowed passage talking over under breath, his listening mind hears sound of words his warning mind the rendering of account the relations come the mythic ancient […]