Iron Behind the Velvet – Table of Contents

A/N: This novel is NOT FINISHED. 

Please understand that I am slow. You might want to wait until I'm finished to start the story. I intend to finish the novel, I promise.

The chapters in bold have been posted. I predict about 92 chapters total. 

Illustrators' pages are linked under the chapter list.


Chapter List

  1  – Meeting at Night  **adult content**
  2 – Parting at Morning  
  3 – Where is Fancy Bred?
  4 – Agitations of the Mind
  5  Lovely Notes, From Shore to Shore
  6  Seeing Into the Heart of Things
  7  The Shadowy Garden Where Love Is  (illustration: MLA)
  8 – In the Earth of Your Soul, In the Cross of Your Arms    ** adult content**
  9 – Let Me Dream It Truth
10  Some Walls  (illustration: EstherWijnbeek)
11 – In the Twilights of Dew and Fire
12 – My Being's Silent Harmonies  (illustration: EstherWijnbeek)
13 – A Meteor of the Burning Heart  (illustration: EstherWijnbeek)
14 – A Girl as Mad as Birds   (illustration: Esther Wijnbeek)
15 – An Ever-Fixèd Mark
16 – The Stars Stand Still to Hear
17 – As Long as the World Contains Us Both
18 – Moulded Like in Nature's Mint
19 – What Outweighs the Heaviest Night
20 – A Process in the Weather of the Heart
21 – I Stretch My Hands and Catch at Hope  (illustration MLA)
22 – My Pulses Beat at Once and Stop
23 – As Chaos to the Irrevocable Past
24 – Love is the Crooked Thing 
25 – No Words More Simply Sweet  **adult content**
26 – That Shadow, My Likeness
27 – After the Countless Songs
28 – The Fire-Born Moods    (illustration: EstherWijnbeek)
29 – Like Light and Cloud-Shadows
30 – The Gentle Wind Doth Move Silently, Invisibly …   (illustrations: MLA, Sonia)
31 – Secrets Everywhere, Everywhere Revelations  (Martin's Mystery Treasure Box Link)
32 – The Subtle Electric Fire  **adult content**
33 – And These Poor Nerves **a moment of adult content**
34 – The Worldless Rose
35 – The Mad Coupling of Hope and Force
36 – Hope Grew Round Me, Like the Twining Vine
37 – The Rest Between Two Notes
38 – O, Sweet Fancy! Let her Loose  **a brief moment of adult content**
39 – One Pierced Moment, Whiter than the Rest
40 – She Dreams a Little and Feels the Dark
41 – There Comes the Swish and Sigh of Rushes
42 – Being Wakeful for Her Sake
43 – A Deep-Sworn Vow
44 – The Fountains of My Hidden Life
45 – The Steep-Coiled Stair
46 – By the Surprise of Its Own Unfolding 
47 – A Trickle of Saying That Will Not Cease
48 – They Shall Be Tuned to Love
49 – Erelong, Erelong
50 – The Opening Chord of Its Long Song
51 – I Know of Nothing Else but Miracles
52 – The Center of All My Labors and My Loves
53 – For I Am Running to Paradise
54 – The Heart after Years of Secret Conversing ...
55 – Amid a Place of Stone, Be Secret and Exult  ***Adult Content***
56 – The Rose-Fire of the Compass, Blossoming with Direction
57 – As Kindly as Moonlight Might Search the Dark
58 – With Pulses That Beat Double
59 – In the House That I Built With My Heart
60 – This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful
61 – Between the Wish and the Thing, the World Lies Waiting
62 – Over the Wide Curve of a Trembling World
63 – Not With This Wind Blowing, Not This Tide
64 – The Grain of the Wood Round the Hatched Knot ...
65 – Beyond Any Seeable Proof, or Hearable Hum
66 – The Journey Done, The Journeyman Come Home
67 – From the Storm, the Long Calm, the Darkness, the Swell
68 – Who Trembles Before the Flame and the Flood
69 – And the Brook Shall Blend With the River ...
70 – Again and Again, However We Know the Landscape ...
71 – Simplicity Rises Like the Blossom of Fire
72 – Like Mirrors, When They Tangle Light
73 – The Surface of the Now Still, Now Swaying Water
74 – That a Vanished Life Might Become Visible
75 – The Tender Gravity of Kindness
76 – The Flowering of Everything
77 – The Form a Day Takes 
78 – Love Costs All We Are and Ever Will Be
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92 –

Character Look-Alikes
Here

Illustrations

Esther Wijnbeek
Joan W (including her gift to Imagine's WFOL 2012 Treasure Hunt)
MLA
Sonia

Title Source: An album recorded by the Irish singer, Christy Moore, in 1978.

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