All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred six)

All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred six)

Posted by ractrose on 24 Apr 2025 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Eight Things Relative   (part two hundred six)             “Now there’s the treasure of a secretary, Mr. Ebrach. Put your affairs in right order. If the city could only afford such help for the police.” Monaghan bent to […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred five)

All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred five)

Posted by ractrose on 23 Apr 2025 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Eight Things Relative   (part two hundred five)             One of those light ones, with the little dots. Finger indicating objects here and there. Posies? I think so. A whitish dress with posies? What your mother might call […]

Story: Palma (part one)

Story: Palma (part one)

Posted by ractrose on 21 Apr 2025 in Fiction, Novels

      Palma (part one)     Basically, you met some people. And because I know you, I won’t believe you feel wounded that a famous man gave you a book. Why not learn Hidtha? I might have a job for you if you can. Vonnie seems to have been kind, allowing you to […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred four)

All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred four)

Posted by ractrose on 19 Apr 2025 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Eight Things Relative   (part two hundred four)             And the doctor is housed? The infirmary’s just below, down the stairs where she was laying. But the doctor…hold, son…said to you to look at his watch while in […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred three)

All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred three)

Posted by ractrose on 17 Apr 2025 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Eight Things Relative   (part two hundred three)             “Miss Buckley provided useful information,” said Phelan. “Which shuffles the logical order, so that we have to have these little theatricalities?” Monaghan gave a merry snort. “Get on with […]

Right Mindfulness (poem)

Right Mindfulness (poem)

Posted by ractrose on 15 Apr 2025 in Art, Poems

        Right Mindfulness   being a starving person having ambition for a seed you’ve planted wanting a bean, an iota of life, feeding life to sprout and thrive Happy bean tendrilling to strings and stakes Your own buying of these, pushing them, tying them, in place Dreams for beans, so big, so […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred two)

All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred two)

Posted by ractrose on 13 Apr 2025 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Eight Things Relative   (part two hundred two)             The cabin was not satisfactory, it had too much glare from the sun for the little balcony to be of use. All the doors and windows had needed to […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred one)

All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred one)

Posted by ractrose on 12 Apr 2025 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Eight Things Relative   (part two hundred one)             “Miss Gremot probably does not mean tipped to,” Ebrach said. He had not named the hypocaust the Roman Baths, but had called a reading library the Unversaght Room, and […]

Story: Tourmaline (conclusion)

Story: Tourmaline (conclusion)

Posted by ractrose on 11 Apr 2025 in Fiction, Novels

      Tourmaline (part seven)     Anton came to a table, one of six skirting the naked base of a statue. He shuffled, and time allowed him a picture, of resisters wrapping Jocelyn’s heroic frauds in fleshy fat suits. No public representations of figures were permitted by the G.R.A.—even of their enemy, travestied. […]

All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred)

All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred)

Posted by ractrose on 9 Apr 2025 in Fiction, Novels

          All Bedlam Courses Past     Chapter Eight Things Relative   (part two hundred)             “There was an irregularity,” Phelan said, drawing emphasis from the word was. “Well, Regina talked a great deal. There were times I would listen with half an ear. She wanted […]