All Bedlam Courses Past (one hundred seventy)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred seventy) ii. The Educated Where were they now to be found, those friends, proven fair-weather fellows, after all? Gadsby Bingley wearied of his long and footsore […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred sixty-nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred sixty-nine) Lawrence, with a forced sober face, said after a while, “Boy’s never been any good with the rabbits.” “Liked looking after them, though, didn’t he?” Longing to […]
My Blog Week: August 25 to August 31
All the Latest from Torsade! A Totem, with a family treasure bestowed; a Bedlam, with the details of a death confronting Lawrence. A poem, from the Eight series, on the Eightfold Path. And a Yoharie, with Giarma and […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred sixty-eight)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred sixty-eight) Curious to see a satiny glow under the cot, Richard tugged out what proved a dressing gown. “That’ll do dandy. Mrs. Gremot give this over? Keep him […]
Yoharie (part nineteen)
Yoharie Stalking (part nineteen) Voices on the walk outside. “Well, you’re not a kid, are you?” The answer came subdued…but Val’s, Giarma thought. “I’m just gonna go, okay?” Trevor got up, opened his door, and they heard Hibbler, his words paced for the stupid. “If you never think […]
The Totem-Maker (part fifty-eight)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part fifty-eight) As always, if Jute were unforthcoming, I gave her naivety. “Wolgan… But you speak as though this were a quality, not a name. Or a clan? Do the Wolgan have godly powers? Are they […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (one hundred sixty-seven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred sixty-seven) His father was dirty-faced, flushed… Was that right, Richard wondered? Wasn’t it afternoon fever with the typhoid? Abashed. He chuckled. For clean, he laid out the Vanguard’s […]
The Resident (part twenty-four)
Chapter Four An Odd Man Out (part twenty-four) Think of an anchor, a memory… A house moved into, high hopes of August 1990. Or an October collision, of 1988. His life, childhood, schooling, first job, first apartment, seemed sunk in a well, but he knew when […]
The Tambinder Engine (part fourteen)
The Tambinder Engine A McAlley Story (part fourteen) A wooden rocking, passing the barn, what Ondine would do in her stall when her ears told her Deenie was near. Deenie, missing person to the barking dog indoors, and the cat, tail swinging up the walk. She bent and pulled him […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred sixty-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred sixty-six) These tarot layings were Rutherford’s, his potshot at the flamboyance of a Gordon Bennett. The Vanguard, showing a fitting sense of localness and reach-within-grasp, was sponsoring the […]
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