Meddlesome: Fourth Allied Forces

Posted by ractrose on 4 Jan 2021 in Art, Poems

      The Folly Allied Forces         Meddlesome   Into a third hand slaps the baton The host takes over an appointment of Fiona’s Her noble aim to steer some entrepreneurial matrons clear of ghoulish error ‘Error’ putting it kindly, he would have said himself Of prying baldly into tragedy…more so, […]

My Blog Week: December 27 to January 2

Posted by ractrose on 3 Jan 2021 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                             A Word on the Week     Who Goes There?             The last week of 2020 seems to have been dominated by fakes. Early on, the internet was obsessed with whether […]

Celebrated (part fifteen)

Posted by ractrose on 2 Jan 2021 in Fiction, Novellas

Novella Celebrated (part fifteen)                       “You wrote a nice piece about my mother.” That had been her comment going up, just before the tricky edge past an RV coming down, that had silenced them. “I’ll have to look at that, back at the house. I […]

Hammersmith: Mack Talks War (chapter two)

Posted by ractrose on 1 Jan 2021 in Fiction, Novels

Hammersmith Chapter Two Mack Talks War             “Thank you, Mr. Derfinger. I’ve had a chill, ever since I took that soaking in the flood.” Hogben hadn’t needed to say this a second time, but making excuse, lest the gossips take hold of his reputation before he’d made use of it […]