All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred sixty-two)

Posted by ractrose on 14 Oct 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          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)

Posted by ractrose on 11 Oct 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          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)

Posted by ractrose on 10 Oct 2024 in Fiction, Novels

  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)

Posted by ractrose on 9 Oct 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          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)

Posted by ractrose on 7 Oct 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          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)

Posted by ractrose on 5 Oct 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          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)

Posted by ractrose on 4 Oct 2024 in Fiction, Novels

  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

Posted by ractrose on 3 Oct 2024 in The Latest

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 […]