All Bedlam Courses Past (part twenty)

Posted by ractrose on 28 Feb 2023 in Fiction, Novels

          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)

Posted by ractrose on 28 Feb 2023 in Fiction, Novels

      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 […]