Celebrated (part thirteen)

Novella Celebrated (part thirteen)                   This mild flag in enthusiasm made her like him more, that he wasn’t a thoroughgoing fraud. “Well, it’s that government program. I can say no to adopting another animal. But these guys are small, they pretty well fend for themselves…you’re not obligated […]

Flash Fiction: The Volunteer

Flash Fiction The Volunteer                         His arm held in the grip of officialdom, he would tug, but gently, allowing himself otherwise to be moved along. He would search faces for the onlooker willing to meet his eyes, and flash a smile to convey that […]

Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part three)

Posted by ractrose on 16 Dec 2020 in Fiction, Novels

Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part three)                     Resuming his seat, Konrad spread the letter under the red light of the lamp, and went on:   “Madonna, as the Prince will enter Naples so soon, this is the last of the letters I shall write to […]

Gravity (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 15 Dec 2020 in Art, Poems

      Gravity   It was in the moonlight they carried on advice of an old client’s volume of ghost-spotting practices libraried by saeculum, decennium Was one of late ages, the folklorist said to make test with an object possessed of the dead   It was of a Mrs. Turnfeather inherited a chest of […]

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

Posted by ractrose on 14 Dec 2020 in Fiction, Novels

The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Crafter Becomes Maker (part thirteen)             She told him that by the will of the gods, I could not be possessed or controlled. That I was patient, but that I need not be. That I would return and bring news, but that I need not return. […]

My Blog Week: December 6 to December 12

Posted by ractrose on 13 Dec 2020 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                             A Word on the Week   Speciosity             Americans have become bad arguers, and bad processors of slow information (which, in the way of slow food, is the old school goodness […]

Celebrated (part twelve)

Novella Celebrated (part twelve)                       Well, she was a bore, nattering in imagination. “Come look,” she told him.     “I’m not a trash artist.” She wanted to laugh, and the matter was somewhat bitter. His head bent to the hand, turning one of the […]

Flash Fiction: Advice for Lightning

      Advice for Lightning     The yellow fog was half smoke, and a breaking sun’s rays glittered through this, cast over cinders. Being late to take advice, thinking no one had come to the door, she went out at last. Someone had. A flyer of emergency numbers hung from the knob. Leandrew […]

Flash Fiction: Character

Flash Fiction Character                         Though the question occurs…whether this is not a product of nostalgia, this notion… Of character or coherence…   Coherence, adhesion, McAlley says to himself. Redundancy. Like healing like. Things that were familiar have fallen to schemes, none of which looks […]

Steaming (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 8 Dec 2020 in Art, Poems

      Steaming   She can’t leave where she is with a sense of cleansed but stands outside to begin, and in this dream every turn of path shows another face every door, with a yawn, pushes in without fuss they sit with their backs against her the lobbyists who wait while fear grows […]