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 […]