House for Sale: This Week’s AI Images

Posted by ractrose on 18 Jun 2023 in Art, Nonfiction

  Last week, my theme was military vehicles. A request for a sonic weapon van disguised as a house for sale became the jumping off point for this week’s series.           My first choice was “a house for sale with a dark secret”. This entire image could work for the cover […]

The Totem-Maker (part five)

Posted by ractrose on 17 Jun 2023 in Fiction, Novels

The Totem-Maker The Little I Can Tell (part five)                     And so I sat on a cold evening, a spring evening that promised frost, at work by hearthlight. If no one wanted me, I liked this hour between dusk and dark for repairing my few garments, […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part forty-six)

Posted by ractrose on 16 Jun 2023 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past   Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part forty-six)         “Because you know Cartesia can’t take the rainy weather these days. Or…why do I say it? That would have been seventy-five. Have I even heard from her? Luce! Has she passed on?” “It’s her […]

The Mirrors (part forty-eight)

Posted by ractrose on 14 Jun 2023 in Fiction, Novels

      The Mirrors (part forty-eight)     She was in the garden. Charleton’s feeble grip yielded to Godfrey’s, that will to live, in defiance of all mischance, all misery. Godfrey shoved at his cousin, Charleton staggered, and both figures flashed through her living self… The thunderclap as before, boom, and boom. But she […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part forty-five)

Posted by ractrose on 13 Jun 2023 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past   Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part forty-five)         “Myra, go sit.” “You here,” Regina said next to Élucide, placing her at the table’s cabin end. “Now I wonder if you all can help.” She added this with hopeless handwork…what a chore, seating […]

My Blog Week: June 4 to June 10

Posted by ractrose on 12 Jun 2023 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                   On Monday, All Bedlam Courses Past, and a talky walk to the river. Thursday, The Mirrors, with Charmante intimate to the sad state of Godfrey Roback’s mind. Friday, The Totem-Maker, and a new […]

Camouflage: This Week’s AI Images

Posted by ractrose on 11 Jun 2023 in Art, Nonfiction

Last week I did fashion, and since I like to jump off from one project to the next, I chose the military theme explored with gala gown for an army general, and asked for ways of disguising weaponry…         A tank disguised as cheese. All four images were similar, so I chose […]

The Totem-Maker (part four)

Posted by ractrose on 9 Jun 2023 in Fiction, Novels

The Totem-Maker The Little I Can Tell (part four)                     But there were bad seasons, blights in the crops, dearths in the harvest, for which I was held wanting. There were myriad quibbles with Elberin, when I had only his tasks for time spent, and no […]

The Mirrors (part forty-seven)

Posted by ractrose on 8 Jun 2023 in Fiction, Novels

      The Mirrors (part forty-seven)     Well, no, Godfrey. He wants you to die, by whatever means nature inflicts. He wants to know if you can bear another needle. Just when you’ve gone to seeing armies of phantoms stalk you, lunge at the corners of your eyes, gone to shake at the […]

My Blog Week: May 28 to June 3

Posted by ractrose on 7 Jun 2023 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                   On Sunday, Yoharie, with the Hibblers hosting a yard sale. Monday, All Bedlam Courses Past, and Regina on her sojourn in Europe. Thursday, The Mirrors, Charleton’s view merging into Godfrey’s. Saturday, AI images, […]