Story: Fellyans (part two)

Story: Fellyans (part two)

    Fellyans (part two)     Something was amiss, where once Fellyans had collected alms, left for them under hollies. As hollies were grandfathered neutral, exiles could pass the length of two truncas inside the Queendom’s border, watched and well-grudged by various self-appointed proctors—but the food, warm clothing, odds and ends of wobbly cooking […]

Story: Fellyans (part one)

Story: Fellyans (part one)

    Fellyans (part one)     A hand removed a shoe from a foot. The owner (of all three) undertook to perform a spell, one that asked a smooth, round stone… Which, if held to the light (in this case, a clouded moon fighting a crane’s nest and two ceiling beams), reflected anything, the […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred eighty-three)

All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred eighty-three)

Posted by ractrose on 29 Dec 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred eighty-three)             “Sheriff Holland brought that by. Now if you could sit with my father, I could go out and get something for the both of us. He gave […]

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

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

Posted by ractrose on 27 Dec 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred eighty-two)             “And he would walk us to church, one the factory hands went to. First Church of the Messiah on Elkin Street. Pastor Davis.” All this was enterprising, […]

My Blog Week: September 15 to September 21

My Blog Week: September 15 to September 21

Posted by ractrose on 24 Dec 2024 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                   Three Bedlams, with Lawrence making plans for the disposal of Mary’s legacies.         My Blog Week: September 15 to September 21     All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred […]

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

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

Posted by ractrose on 22 Dec 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred eighty-one)             These thoughts galvanized Richard. On his feet, noting Bayard had made the last half-inch of whisky vanish, and knelt companionably into the story of Billy Holdclaw, he […]

Yoharie (part twenty-one)

Yoharie (part twenty-one)

Posted by ractrose on 22 Dec 2024 in Fiction, Novels

Yoharie Totem-World (part twenty-one)               “There’s speculation Southey only did it as a kind of meta-joke…not to be inclusive, the way we talk about that now, but just making a puzzle. So one could work out the answer. The few times his publisher issued any communication from him…I say […]

The Totem-Maker (part sixty-one)

The Totem-Maker (part sixty-one)

Posted by ractrose on 21 Dec 2024 in Fiction, Novels

  The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part sixty-one)                       My friend the Hezhnian sailor returned. He bent for my basket. I waved a hand and pinched its edge, wanting not to be served any longer. Our tussle ended at once, for he was […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred eighty)

All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred eighty)

Posted by ractrose on 18 Dec 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred eighty)             His wandering mind saw fault in this. Gremots kept touch with Hawses. No, he should visit her in person. Easier into a face-to-face talk bringing a casual […]

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

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

Posted by ractrose on 17 Dec 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred seventy-nine)             He set the bottle on the floor. A pint is not much, Richard thought. “Wish no bad end on anyone,” the sheriff said. “But I don’t get […]