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All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred eighty-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred eighty-two) “And he would walk us to church, one the factory hands went to. First Church of the Messiah on Elkin Street. Pastor Davis.” All this was enterprising, […]
My Blog Week: September 15 to September 21
All the Latest from Torsade! Three Bedlams, with Lawrence making plans for the disposal of Mary’s legacies. My Blog Week: September 15 to September 21 All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred eighty-one)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred eighty-one) These thoughts galvanized Richard. On his feet, noting Bayard had made the last half-inch of whisky vanish, and knelt companionably into the story of Billy Holdclaw, he […]
Yoharie (part twenty-one)
Yoharie Totem-World (part twenty-one) “There’s speculation Southey only did it as a kind of meta-joke…not to be inclusive, the way we talk about that now, but just making a puzzle. So one could work out the answer. The few times his publisher issued any communication from him…I say […]
The Totem-Maker (part sixty-one)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part sixty-one) My friend the Hezhnian sailor returned. He bent for my basket. I waved a hand and pinched its edge, wanting not to be served any longer. Our tussle ended at once, for he was […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred eighty)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred eighty) His wandering mind saw fault in this. Gremots kept touch with Hawses. No, he should visit her in person. Easier into a face-to-face talk bringing a casual […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred seventy-nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred seventy-nine) He set the bottle on the floor. A pint is not much, Richard thought. “Wish no bad end on anyone,” the sheriff said. “But I don’t get […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred seventy-eight)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred seventy-eight) He sat rubbing his father’s hand with a wool sock. Fire warmed the cabin, but warmth was in the weather today, too. Heavy fog forecast change, and […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred seventy-seven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred seventy-seven) Morning, his eyes opened to fog, inside the cabin and out. He put off clammy blankets, shifted cats of his mother’s who’d clustered between his legs. He […]
The Totem-Maker (part sixty)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part sixty) “Eat. So that I may.” I pooled wine in my bowl, sopped my bread, finished while I watched around me. Many of the Emperor’s men were aboard these vessels of our hosts; the Hezhnian […]