Yoharie (part twenty)

Yoharie (part twenty)

Posted by ractrose on 29 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

Yoharie Savannah (part twenty)               Mostly people were in their world, they were fake, and you hated talking to them. You’d be like, “Hey, awesome!” You’d get thx. A poor lil heart. Yeah, bitch. If Savannah still wrote essays for the Oppressors, she would work in all the full-grammar […]

The Totem-Maker (part fifty-nine)

The Totem-Maker (part fifty-nine)

Posted by ractrose on 28 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

  The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part fifty-nine)                       I saw him with no head covering, hair in the wind. He seemed to me freed and unburdened. He had come to us knowing our language, and knew our hosts’, too. His speech with […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (one hundred seventy-three)

All Bedlam Courses Past (one hundred seventy-three)

Posted by ractrose on 26 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred seventy-three)             “Well, if you got gold, can’t you buy turnips?” Micah had let this opinion stand. Richard, held accountable for Cato’s neighbor, let Micah and friend leave, sat […]

My Blog Week: September 1 to September 7

My Blog Week: September 1 to September 7

Posted by ractrose on 25 Nov 2024 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                   Just two posts for this week. A Bedlam, with Lawrence discovering the doctor on another visit, and a Totem, fortunes beginning to be told, and news about Jute.           […]

Forgive (poem)

Forgive (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 21 Nov 2024 in Art, Poems

      Forgive   say it’s a secret parching for a seat, a spot to fall into a lady faint Why’s it all so fraught? Squinting at how funhouse the two of you appear and wouldn’t it be best to dart inside this shop pull disguises from the racks So who was that girl […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (one hundred seventy-two)

All Bedlam Courses Past (one hundred seventy-two)

Posted by ractrose on 20 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred seventy-two)             He skimmed, tried humming a few bars, remembered whistling was more annoying than humming, tried this, but could not fit any song he knew. The drunken father […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred seventy-one)

All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred seventy-one)

Posted by ractrose on 19 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred seventy-one)             He let this sit a second. “Lawrence might turn up…danger’s high if he runs across Miss Gremot.” “I don’t mind if she visits.” “Oh, don’t you?” Richard […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (one hundred seventy)

Posted by ractrose on 18 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred seventy)             ii. The Educated      Where were they now to be found, those friends, proven fair-weather fellows, after all? Gadsby Bingley wearied of his long and footsore […]

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

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

Posted by ractrose on 17 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred sixty-nine)             Lawrence, with a forced sober face, said after a while, “Boy’s never been any good with the rabbits.” “Liked looking after them, though, didn’t he?” Longing to […]

My Blog Week: August 25 to August 31

My Blog Week: August 25 to August 31

Posted by ractrose on 15 Nov 2024 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                   A Totem, with a family treasure bestowed; a Bedlam, with the details of a death confronting Lawrence. A poem, from the Eight series, on the Eightfold Path. And a Yoharie, with Giarma and […]