Keep his distance (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 21 May 2023 in Art, Poems

      Keep his distance   He is much closer now to his condemners Manners, if good social manners would stop the driver of a van He will sit, monitor this scene through a dirty screen A wireless device at rest near his resting hand Hand that touches no lover’s knee She in the […]

Yoharie (part two)

Posted by ractrose on 21 May 2023 in Fiction, Novels

Yoharie Hibbler, Awake (part two)               He felt something. An intrusive prod, a dull instrument’s pinpoint of contact…a pen, his mind told him, was what this was. Todwillow, who did not wash often enough, and wore drugstore aftershave, was leaning over him, poking at him. This bodily proximity made […]