dissolving (poem)

dissolving (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 2 Oct 2025 in Art, Poems

      dissolving   it was a solution, now it is not it worked, like the blades of an agitator at dethreading fabric, then towels to sop the spreading could be peeled from the waste, carrying their stopgap contamination loads and trashed And the troubles entered every household seeming dilute, kept on top of […]

Are You Haunted (part seventeen)

Are You Haunted (part seventeen)

Posted by ractrose on 2 Oct 2025 in Fiction, Novellas

        Are You Haunted (part seventeen)           Powell tested a handle of the kitchen faucet. Then jumped, at water spitting out like a phantom cat. He let it run a few seconds, weak, rusty brown. He guessed he shouldn’t have tried the hot. The boiler wasn’t going, so […]