All Bedlam Courses Past (one hundred seventy)

Posted by ractrose on 18 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          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 (part one hundred sixty-nine)

Posted by ractrose on 17 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          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

My Blog Week: August 25 to August 31

Posted by ractrose on 15 Nov 2024 in The Latest

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 (part one hundred sixty-eight)

Posted by ractrose on 14 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          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 (part nineteen)

Posted by ractrose on 12 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

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 (part fifty-eight)

Posted by ractrose on 11 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

  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)

Posted by ractrose on 8 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          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)

Posted by ractrose on 8 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novellas

      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 (part fourteen)

Posted by ractrose on 7 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novellas

      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 (part one hundred sixty-six)

Posted by ractrose on 4 Nov 2024 in Fiction, Novels

          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 […]