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 […]

Yoharie (part twenty)

Yoharie (part twenty)

Posted by ractrose on 29 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

Yoharie Savannah (part twenty)               Mostly people were in their world, they were fake, and you hated talking to them. You’d be like, “Hey, awesome!” You’d get thx. A poor lil heart. Yeah, bitch. If Savannah still wrote essays for the Oppressors, she would work in all the full-grammar […]

The Totem-Maker (part fifty-nine)

The Totem-Maker (part fifty-nine)

Posted by ractrose on 28 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

  The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part fifty-nine)                       I saw him with no head covering, hair in the wind. He seemed to me freed and unburdened. He had come to us knowing our language, and knew our hosts’, too. His speech with […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (one hundred seventy-three)

All Bedlam Courses Past (one hundred seventy-three)

Posted by ractrose on 26 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying   (part one hundred seventy-three)             “Well, if you got gold, can’t you buy turnips?” Micah had let this opinion stand. Richard, held accountable for Cato’s neighbor, let Micah and friend leave, sat […]

My Blog Week: September 1 to September 7

My Blog Week: September 1 to September 7

Posted by ractrose on 25 Nov 2024 in The Latest

All the Latest from Torsade!                                   Just two posts for this week. A Bedlam, with Lawrence discovering the doctor on another visit, and a Totem, fortunes beginning to be told, and news about Jute.           […]

Forgive (poem)

Forgive (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 21 Nov 2024 in Art, Poems

      Forgive   say it’s a secret parching for a seat, a spot to fall into a lady faint Why’s it all so fraught? Squinting at how funhouse the two of you appear and wouldn’t it be best to dart inside this shop pull disguises from the racks So who was that girl […]