All Bedlam Courses Past (part twenty)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part twenty) At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun. Alexander Pope […]
The Mirrors (part thirty-six)
The Mirrors (part thirty-six) xvi. She was twenty years old. Esta’s birthday was not remarked in the household. She had been married two years to Charles, not a choice. She hadn’t at eighteen considered love, whether love were possible, and if so, who? Her brother, nine years her […]
My Blog Week: February 19 to February 25
All the Latest from Torsade! This week, five pages of All Bedlam Courses Past, ending chapter one, with the younger Richard Everard overhearing a conversation of interest, receiving charity and rebuke, and returning to old ways. Images on my […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part nineteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter One The Peculiar Nature of Logical Science (part nineteen) “Richard, I have a letter to show you,” Miss Gremot said. “You know Honoré’s aunt is coming to stay.” Her eyes shared this with the receptive Ryan-Neville, who leaned on […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part eighteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter One The Peculiar Nature of Logical Science (part eighteen) “Your name is Everard. I am Ryan-Neville.” “What’s she want you to tell me?” “To return to the fold. Words to that effect. The Towson has it you’re seeking work. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventeen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter One The Peculiar Nature of Logical Science (part seventeen) They went as the new bridge dictated, at a stronger diagonal, wheeling over the burial of Sanderson’s cabin and his father’s, all things built by the county’s founding clan well […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part sixteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter One The Peculiar Nature of Logical Science (part sixteen) “Truth to tell, sir, I can get a lot from Rowan himself. Just let on I’m a little sorry over my pay at the Vanguard. Ball rolling, touch of oil…” […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part fifteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter One The Peculiar Nature of Logical Science (part fifteen) “Well, Fannie says it.” Gremot said it. “You know, I don’t think it’s news at all. Almost emperor’s new clothes, allowing Rowan’s no emperor.” “Well, no, you don’t want to […]
My Blog Week: February 12 to February 18
All the Latest from Torsade! This week, “The Resident” on Monday, with Wissary betraying his origins. Then on Tuesday and Wednesday, All Bedlam Courses Past, with the end of the first chapter and the return of the […]
Catastrophe (part forty-one)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part forty-one) Among the Experts XXVI A Guardian of Sanitary Regulations Protests All Down the Line A man truly no longer content, not at all, with the government and administrative […]