My Blog Week: September 4 to September 10

Posted by ractrose on 12 Sep 2023 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                   On Monday, All Bedlam Courses Past, and Élucide’s latest sighting of Richard. Wednesday, a new episode of “The Resident”, with Gemma detailing more of time travel. Thursday, “The Tambinder Engine” and Deenie’s attempt […]

The Totem-Maker (part thirteen)

Posted by ractrose on 11 Sep 2023 in Fiction, Novels

The Totem-Maker Chapter Two Jealousy (part thirteen)                 The porter led Lom to the terrace’s threshold, preceding a new-arrived visitor for whom Lom rightfully served as vanguard, Cime. Sente did not rise. “Can I fairly suppose, Sente, that the law touches you at last?” Mine was the eye […]

The Tambinder Engine (part ten)

      The Tambinder Engine  A McAlley Story (part ten)     If it needed driving into town, this new tedium, Deenie felt willing to spy, to troll the apartment house Railsback said was Mick’s. A tan brick two-story. Outside stairs. She pulled to a light, shifted her mirror, a move no one could […]

The Resident (part nineteen)

Posted by ractrose on 6 Sep 2023 in Fiction, Novellas

      Chapter Three Tithonians           But because slipping into the groove is not a kind of decomposition, where atoms are snatched and assembled into a facsimile of a person, who can’t tell the difference, between the self he believes himself to be, and the self he has been. Time […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-two)

Posted by ractrose on 4 Sep 2023 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past   Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-two)              Ma’am, was what he called Verbena, and off, hollering this, Samuel went up the steep of the hill, on their own side. “So we’re not crossing.” “No use now. I’d of […]

My Blog Week: August 27 to September 3

Posted by ractrose on 4 Sep 2023 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                   On Wednesday and Friday, All Bedlam Courses Past, with Élucide searching for Everards. On Saturday, The Mirrors, concluding with Charmante’s new job, and truths to carry forward.           My […]

The Mirrors (conclusion)

Posted by ractrose on 3 Sep 2023 in Fiction, Novels

      The Mirrors (part fifty-four)           xx.     She was in a basement room, of welled windows along Centre Street, a lunchtime parade of legs, then quiet and pecking pigeons. Like the research library this was, the room had long, wide tables stacked with reference books; and filing […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-one)

Posted by ractrose on 1 Sep 2023 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past   Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-one)              “But they’ve got a little house…on one of these ridgetops…” “Lil cabin.” “And Lawrence pays his visits…” “Don’t think he does, much. Sends that boy of Mary Paton’s.” Mary Paton, who […]