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All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred thirty-five)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred thirty-five) “…and did, I find it safe to say, pick up the brochures from a hotel, and introduce them to his wife. The sight of them may well have inspired […]
Yoharie (part twenty-two)
Yoharie Totem-World (part twenty-two) “Things have got polarized, don’t you think? I mean, say the next Spiderman should be a woman, you’d get death threats. Last time they actually got the project started, there was boycott talk right off. Neverers were a thing by then.” “But if she […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred thirty-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred thirty-four) Demrose hadn’t a notion how or when the brochures had arrived. His wife had them. In her hand? Beside her plate? Among her correspondence? In her rooms, where I […]
Guts (poem)
Guts Gutted, crushed, broken, dead Commenters are Dead at the bloated cow’s recurring news Referenced in times its demise seemed only augured News of a weight too light to break News burst upon you, in a sidling way, demanding Almost all are cause-of-death-revealed all the click-throughs warning you that clogs gnashed […]
Story: A Friend (part four)
A Friend (part four) “He hasn’t changed so much, has he?” She looked again, from the photo to Anton in his chair. “And this is Anton with his grandmother.” “No. That’s the older boy.” Seconds ticked by. “A shame,” Herward said. That was a way of putting it. A […]
The Totem-Maker (part seventy-nine)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part seventy-nine) On that ninth day when the peddler was to leave me, though I did not know it, Moth, after a rap at my door, walked in. “Is it you?” I said. “Totem-Maker. I was […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred thirty-three)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred thirty-three) These facts included Miss Buckley’s movements altogether, excepting the Gorman episode. “But Gorman wouldn’t,” Élucide said, “have been a confederate.” “No, they’d not have risked a third party. Never […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred thirty-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred thirty-two) “The greasy material could not have been trodden to invisibility, for all the comings and goings. Likewise the foot would bear its carpet fluff. But the conspirators were in […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred thirty-one)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred thirty-one) Demrose had not wanted to be a father. Would a lie be advantageous, more sympathetic? Monaghan would want to know, in that event, why he did not pursue the […]
Story: A Friend (part three)
A Friend (part three) Anton had not put the kettle on for his cocoa, or his plate in the oven to warm. He stared at Herward, crossed his arms and put his hands in the opposite sleeves. He sat rubbing his handkerchief on a silver card tray, next, absorbed […]