The Tambinder Engine (part seven)

      The Tambinder Engine  A McAlley Story (part seven)     She woke next morning, and would have wondered at the raw throat, the ill feeling… But her bedroom air was hazy with smoke. Kitten Bobbo’s claws tickled her ankle as she toed below the spread for slippers. As often, in these days […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part twenty-one)

Posted by ractrose on 2 Mar 2023 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past   Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part twenty-one)         He had gone to the house of his embassy. The cab stopped; Gilbert climbed down, tendered a five-cent coin, and pointed to a phrase in his book: J’ai apprécié votre gentilesse. The driver took […]

King’s Rook (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 1 Mar 2023 in Art, Poems

      King’s Rook   “I’m married to a freak,” she tells him. She talks, and when she talks, her story entrains to a detail that couples to another And while she was only holding a parking space so Artsy could truck some canvasses down The traffic stalls them pulling free, and Rainy talks […]