Peeled (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 3 Mar 2021 in Art, Poems

      Peeled   Apparency is the means into the mind Dreary the mood of an overheated October Afternoon and no escape The crowd all move together Did the nape clench With premonition Knowing this thing coming Will roll Like the spinning wheel of a wrecked Bicycle a slammed brake Damned if the distractor […]

Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part twelve)

Posted by ractrose on 2 Mar 2021 in Fiction, Novels

Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part twelve)                     She dropped onto the chair and wrung her hands in her lap. He might have acted, if his guard encircled him—but what this girl urged was beyond Andreas. He had not the freedom of this palace, though in […]

Yoharie: Plumbing (part one)

Yoharie: Plumbing (part one)

Posted by ractrose on 1 Mar 2021 in Fiction, Novels

Yoharie Plumbing (part one)               Better to concentrate on the small things. Some item on the list you hadn’t checked off. Just get that. When the proofs were out of your control; when you had no approach to the ones who could tell the truth, who… Who, if confronted […]