The Totem-Maker (part seventy-three)

The Totem-Maker (part seventy-three)

Posted by ractrose on 4 May 2025 in Fiction, Novels

  The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Use for Use (part seventy-three)                       For a song he gave me a sewing kit, yarn, salt, herbs. Boots, and a following of him to the sheep’s cave, where he showed me how I would get wool—a comb to draw […]

Story: Palma (part two)

Story: Palma (part two)

Posted by ractrose on 4 May 2025 in Fiction, Novels

        Palma (part two)     Palma kept her door stoppered open. Her message: that if they surveilled everything, she had no secrets and couldn’t care. She had pretty clothes and never wore them. She had keepsakes of her mother’s and would let them be smashed to the street below. This smashing […]