OrpheusDescending

13 Dec 2013

The Bordunes Chapter 2

The lusts and loves of a Gilded Age family

Chapter Two Rose O’Toole Part 1 Dark circles shadowed Rose O’Toole’s green eyes. Three worrisome weeks at a boarding house in New York’s notorious Five Points section left Rose with fingernails gnawed down to nubs. On that April morn, she tied her long, a...

OrpheusDescending

7 Dec 2013

The Bordunes

A saga of the passions and loves of a wealthy Gilded Age family.

The Bordunes Morning, Mid-April 1882 Chapter One Lorelei Langley Part 1 On an unseasonably balmy April morning in Manhattan, a young woman in a peach colored satin dress made her way down Fifth Avenue. Catching her reflection in the window of a hat shop,...