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

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

Posted by ractrose on 13 Dec 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred seventy-eight)             He sat rubbing his father’s hand with a wool sock. Fire warmed the cabin, but warmth was in the weather today, too. Heavy fog forecast change, and […]

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

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

Posted by ractrose on 10 Dec 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred seventy-seven)             Morning, his eyes opened to fog, inside the cabin and out. He put off clammy blankets, shifted cats of his mother’s who’d clustered between his legs. He […]

The Totem-Maker (part sixty)

The Totem-Maker (part sixty)

Posted by ractrose on 10 Dec 2024 in Fiction, Novels

  The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part sixty)                       “Eat. So that I may.” I pooled wine in my bowl, sopped my bread, finished while I watched around me. Many of the Emperor’s men were aboard these vessels of our hosts; the Hezhnian […]

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

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

Posted by ractrose on 8 Dec 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred seventy-six)             Mary had been close about that vegetable patch. He could fork soil in his good time, with the excuse of being his brother’s prop-in-sorrows. The day Mrs. […]

Right Thought (poem)

Right Thought (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 6 Dec 2024 in Art, Poems

      Right Thought   You would be free You would begin your hell-bound trek to liberation Attracted by a campaign Of eradication Clean surfaces, How To…how nice Soon emptied drawers exhale colonies Of clutter-squatters, camped on chairs You tell yourself, “I will clear three shelves” But small embodiments, often figurements Show you in […]

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

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

Posted by ractrose on 4 Dec 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred seventy-five)             He had toted along his books, to Fletcher’s disdain. Fletcher, demonstrating what good a book was, snatched one from under the fifteen-year-old’s eyes, and tossed it in […]

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

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

Posted by ractrose on 4 Dec 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred seventy-four)             But for having thought, you had to act. You could not tempt God when you knew you walked angel-less. Richard hated his father a notch more for […]

My Blog Week: September 8 to September 14

My Blog Week: September 8 to September 14

Posted by ractrose on 2 Dec 2024 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                   Two Bedlams, with a burial and a ride home, and a Totem, with worse and better sides of human nature.           My Blog Week: September 8  to September 14 […]