Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part thirty-one)

Posted by ractrose on 7 Aug 2021 in Fiction, Novels

Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part thirty-one)                   It rained, while under treetops Andreas and Henryk found their shelter decent…if intermittent. Roderigo walked Samson; Pio, Henryk’s groom, led his mount Ardent. The grooms’ own mounts trailed, untethered. Wind gusted, and with each came a small crash, the […]

Hammersmith: A Novelty Act (chapter twenty-four)

Posted by ractrose on 7 Aug 2021 in Fiction, Novels

Hammersmith Chapter Twenty-Four A Novelty Act               “I can’t tell you why, but a fried egg will always get a laugh. I had one cemented to the plate, with two strips of bacon…rubber, of course…the plate was a round of enameled iron, like your kitchen sink. Coffee pot and […]

Poem: When You See God

Posted by ractrose on 4 Aug 2021 in Art, Poems

      When You See God   When you see god nose your horizon Inconvenient choosing the hour before the alarm goes off Before you lift your fork Before you find your pen and jot your thought An acronym, had it been? for blunder A plan you’d had to get thinner By mistake you […]

Eight: King (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 3 Aug 2021 in Art, Poems

      King   Artsy is the acquired name The King of this domain not cute, believe it And swords don’t pull from stones, but a crazy with a knife was witnessed once Things happen on the beat and things get made only for use    but color color is a natural    it’s a world […]

The Bog (part four)

Short Stories The Bog (part four)                   Laurel, eighteen (Nixon president, a laundry room’s black and white TV, the only available to watch), had let Rachel, five, camp out in her apartment. Laurel had been the adult, unassailable. Now Rachel was the adult, her bossiness unrelenting after […]

My Blog Week: July 25 to July 31

Posted by ractrose on 2 Aug 2021 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                               A Word on the Week   The Cringe of Christianity             My translation of Mathilde Alanic’s Shine! is reaching its conclusion; in this week’s episode the atheistic heroine, Annie, promises […]

Hammersmith: View Halloo (chapter twenty-three)

Posted by ractrose on 1 Aug 2021 in Fiction, Novels

Hammersmith Chapter Twenty-Three View Halloo               Swan’s lodging house…or private business of some other type…began its intercourse with the visitor in a sunlit parlor, flanked by closed doors. Hogben, for having breakfasted at Aimee’s, ridden on a train, walked half-a-dozen city blocks to Krabill’s, gone by cab to lunch […]