Category Archives: Fiction

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. It is Wednesday lunchtime at the H bar and … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Mrs.Rutherford now sells sky-blue porcelain mugs, for use on the … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Steve Strether opens his old scratched Dutch Masters cigar box. … Continue reading →

126. Flood NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Lou and Diddlie are already at the corner … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Heavy showers come down with monsoon-like density, after a … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. 124. Hand Writing.  White oak blossom, short, snaky, dark yellow … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. The text from bel Vionnet says, “The ‘Bookery’, 12:30.” … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. “Did you know Hank Dumpty has been discharged?” “So, … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. Rank Majors greets me outside the Cavendish Pie Shop … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. “I think that is our long-lost neighbor.” Bel Vionnet … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. Paula Pocock holds the door for a hooded customer … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. Lou is subdued, slouched in his chair.  We sit … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  “John Tenniel and Son.  Finest artists’ colors and supports,” … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Diddlie arrives home in her friend’s silver Prius as … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. Hank Dumpty was admitted to Prestige University Medical Center … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Walking with Lark through one of the last bits … Continue reading →

Post 113. Concrete NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  We are walking around the new … Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Three leafless stems with a few thin branches rise … Continue reading →

Josephine looks out from under the couch, twitching her torn ears which were crushed by the motion of her head against the front of the couch. She bounds across the room and races towards the hall speedway with the others.  Two tabbies, Mashall Joachim Murat and Marshal Ney, Prince of the Moskovie, collide in the hall doorway closing in behind Josephine, but skidding on the parquet as they make the turn. Continue reading →

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Mrs. Rutherford stands patiently behind the curving glass counter … Continue reading →