All Bedlam Courses Past (part fifty-five)

Posted by ractrose on 16 Jul 2023 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past   Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part fifty-five)            The Letter’s artwork showed a glowing fellow, with full cheeks, unshadowed eyes, a mustache to do a maître d proud—   I had suffered, from youth, many maladies; my constitution was ever […]

My Blog Week: July 2 to July 8

Posted by ractrose on 16 Jul 2023 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                   On Monday, The Totem-Maker, taken on a first venture of tax assessing. On Tuesday and Friday, All Bedlam Courses Past, with discussion of the summer’s pressing topic. On Saturday, another Catastrophe, and the […]

The Tambinder Engine (part nine)

      The Tambinder Engine  A McAlley Story (part nine)     “He’s a little like Dustin, that’s how I feel, reading him. Grand schemes, wanting to be discovered, admired. Like a genius, like a vault with money inside…safe.” She laughed at the unmeant pun, nervous. “What a jumble I just said!” “You haven’t […]

The Resident (part seventeen)

      Chapter Three Tithonians           ii.     They sat, faces blue in the faintness of a battery lantern, Gemma’s. “Why, again, is this a good spot for our talk?” Debra said. “I don’t doubt you. You’re a lister and a PhD, and I’m only…” “I know Aura didn’t […]

The Totem-Maker (part eight)

Posted by ractrose on 12 Jul 2023 in Fiction, Novels

The Totem-Maker Chapter Two Jealousy (part eight)                 Each quarter of the town—I will give it a name: Monsecchers—was governed with some independence from its sisters, under rule of its own militia. The militias were the Emperor’s, whose army obeyed his mercenary Prince. But matters of justice belonged […]

The Mirrors (part fifty)

Posted by ractrose on 11 Jul 2023 in Fiction, Novels

      The Mirrors (part fifty)         And because she and William were the help; because William did not enter the house, but on this exceptional day, while Charmante never bothered the men at their work… The only information worthwhile to the medics, to the doctor and hospital staff, was given […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part fifty-four)

Posted by ractrose on 9 Jul 2023 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past   Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part fifty-four)            ii. Barefoot to Compostela       Jealousy. To be able to say that the feeling was this— Proof enough, or ought to be. He was not worse than he had been; […]

Catastrophe (part forty-five)

Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part forty-five)                             XXIX  An Observation of M. Muller The equipage of the doctor. Proof of instant death.     Some who first saw the stricken bodies in the streets of Saint-Pierre, and notably, in […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part fifty-three)

Posted by ractrose on 7 Jul 2023 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past   Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part fifty-three)            “Now what are we finishing up with, Fan?” Rutherford said. “Lemon sponge. Go on.” A gesture for the maid. “But Joseph.” “Ma’am. I grant you…I grant you, perhaps his father was…” Pause […]

My Blog Week: June 25 to July 1

Posted by ractrose on 6 Jul 2023 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                   This week, three episodes of All Bedlam Courses Past, bringing Thacker, the Vanguard reporter, to a meeting with Gremot, and a recollection of dinner at Rutherford’s. On Wednesday, a poem reissue that touches […]