My Blog Week: February 27 to March 5

Posted by ractrose on 6 Mar 2022 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                     On Monday, a new Totem-Maker, with the character reinventing the Escmar story, adding details of horror tailored to the lore of the Kale-Kale. On Tuesday, the last pre-epilogue chapter of Hammersmith, part […]

My Blog Week: February 20 to February 26

Posted by ractrose on 6 Mar 2022 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                   On Monday, a new Yoharie, where, in the summer of 2016, the Hibbler daughters’ loss, and the coming American alteration, have roots in common. On Tuesday, a reissue of “The Epistles”, from The […]

Hammersmith: Reckoning Up (part two)

Posted by ractrose on 4 Mar 2022 in Fiction, Novels

Hammersmith Chapter Thirty-Nine Reckoning Up (part two)           The dilemma had a straightforward logic to it, supposing a father a little overbearing, a little inclined to take things for granted, could be ushered— To the hilltop perspective, to see his daughter through the eyes of an interested friend. Aimee put out […]

Harvest (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 2 Mar 2022 in Art, Poems

      Harvest   He introduced the arguments he called his bulletproofs The morning of a hot day Three on a bluff high in view of the sea Again to dig and sift wanting the shape of a ring Among oddities of metal, often handles of ammo boxes They were to assign a date […]

Hammersmith: Reckoning Up (part one)

Posted by ractrose on 1 Mar 2022 in Fiction, Novels

Hammersmith Thirty-Nine Reckoning Up (part one)           Somehow, the hour had come to this— A rising sun, beaming insistent rays at eyes their bleariest of a lifetime. Alone at the kitchen table in Vic’s empty house, Aimee woke, not from sleep—a thing not to be managed on a wooden chair—but to […]