Iron (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 29 Feb 2024 in Art, Poems

      Iron   The audience feel this matter under-inquired-of They’ve found a plastic bag of party clothes Gone on a gala date to a theater’s ashes Where a continental crash of loss on death and death on loss has stacked peaks of guttedness on rotted peaks, never yet eroded Never to be. By […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred two)

Posted by ractrose on 28 Feb 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past   Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred two)             The light was through the kitchen window. Richard had given a peek and seen no one inside. “How come Gippy didn’t bark, cause he knows you.” Samuel spoke shuffling up, dog tight […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred one)

Posted by ractrose on 27 Feb 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past   Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred one)             He had ways and places all over town. He got into the Methodist bell tower, the station switchbox, the coffin workshop at Snedden’s, Pelle’s cabinet of blue negatives… At Miss Towson’s doors […]

My Blog Week: February 19 to February 25

Posted by ractrose on 26 Feb 2024 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                   This week, three episodes of Bedlam, continuing Richard’s progress from vagabond to jailed suspect. On Friday, an episode of Totem, with the preliminaries to the trial, cautions from counsel, and disruption from the […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred)

Posted by ractrose on 24 Feb 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past   Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred)             The constable crossed the street, so it sounded. Next the Horace house was the city’s garden park, low brick wall keeping out chickens, crabapple row filtering the Horace’s manure pile. Crusader, whose snuffling […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part ninety-nine)

Posted by ractrose on 23 Feb 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past   Chapter Four Counterfeits (part ninety-nine)              The patient observed, adenoidal: “That fellow Élucide was hiring for a job.” “You,” the nurse said. “You’re not looking for her.” “In my Sunday best, ma’am. No.” The idea played that he might say […]

The Totem-Maker (part twenty-nine)

Posted by ractrose on 21 Feb 2024 in Fiction, Novels

The Totem-Maker Chapter Four To Be and to Choose (part twenty-nine)                   Lady Nyma’s assize was of high ceremony, a sober weight to impress itself on any accusant entering lightly. I entered in fear. I must be dressed in a blue and yellow garment, with high collar […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part ninety-eight)

Posted by ractrose on 21 Feb 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past   Chapter Four Counterfeits (part ninety-eight)             His brother had found him eating Mary Paton’s cabbage. With, on the plain table beside the bowl, a chop she’d allowed. “That’s just sat there dried up since breakfast.” He would have stuck it […]

My Blog Week: February 11 to February 18

Posted by ractrose on 20 Feb 2024 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                   This week, four episodes of Bedlam, winding up Chapter Three, so a couple with extra pages. Élucide finds an answer to asserting her freedom that, given circumstances, her father approves of. Then, one […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part ninety-seven)

Posted by ractrose on 18 Feb 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past   Chapter Four Counterfeits (part ninety-seven)             i. “I never saw his face”       “Okay, hey. Know what, you all? What I heard?” Glee. The voice colored with it, glee over the body of vagabond Tinker, lying at the […]