Iron (poem)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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 […]
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