All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred sixty-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred sixty-two) Two of three returning faces lit up. Richard jumped overboard, before the wagon drew to a halt. What anyone said was not distinct, but it was not, […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred sixty-one)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred sixty-one) i. Have you ever helped me Frost met the eye, and the soul greeted October’s show of sincerity willing… To peter down into goneness. […]
The Totem-Maker (part fifty-four)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part fifty-four) I could not swear this was true. I’d had nothing in my life to do with butchery, or with physic, and I wondered for the first time, what is that threshold? What proof life […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred sixty)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred sixty) And Richard was his brother, you had to give a hand when a brother asked… Lawrence now sat straighter, took his hat off, put it back on. No mistake, the […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred fifty-nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred fifty-nine) Lawrence conjured flapjacks, a camp meal he knew the means of. Richard stepped close on stiff-jointed feet, his morning flesh drained of color. Face stubbled, not bearded. He dropped the coat […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred fifty-eight)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred fifty-eight) Jumping out of the wagon, Lawrence shot a glance more appraising at Domino…really a dark brown, socks to the knee. Domino was not Dancer. He had found it wholly likely Richard […]
The Totem-Maker (part fifty-three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part fifty-three) Our setting sail became urgent; no more could be postponed. We crossed a plain of murmuring dark earth, from the outpost at the foot of the mountain, to the fingering ridges that brought us to […]
My Blog Week: July 21 to July 27
All the Latest from Torsade! A poem, from an early collection, on the tensions of power. A Bedlam, with Lawrence going to town, hoping his wife sorts herself alone. An episode of “The Resident”, John’s mind making its […]
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