Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: April 21 to April 27
All the Latest from Torsade! A new chapter of Bedlam, a city ceremony vying with a political stunt. Then Totem, a first lesson in the physicality of combat. My Blog Week: April 21 […]
The Totem-Maker (part forty)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five The Mustering Grounds (part forty) The Prince had found a noisy man, Imoë the Squatter, thief of a hilltop home. Like he of the Villa Montadta, the owner lived away, south in the Emperor’s ugly capital, at the Emperor’s feet. Imoë was […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred twenty-five)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred twenty-five) A birthdate…awkward, maybe, as for five years they hadn’t thought of cake… Of November 11, 1850. A father and mother, Gauthier and Anne-Claude; Anne-Claude’s maiden name, with resentment, not known. Honoré […]
My Blog Week: April 14 to April 20
All the Latest from Torsade! Two episodes of Bedlam, Richard buying some newspapers in Cincinnati. Then a new Tambinder, with Deenie meeting Mick, and fearing for Matthew. Also a Totem-Maker, and introduction to The War-Maker’s game. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred twenty-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred twenty-four) It took a day… Rowan’s asking of, to locate just where he’d filed that copy. He would not say Mr. Yeager, but someone in his employ had picked it up, on […]
The Resident (part twenty)
Chapter Three Tithonians (part twenty) “Thank you, Des. I might easily have forgotten what I was about to say.” “He’s prompting you along!” The irony, of tone, Wissary’s eye seeking Gemma’s approval, conveyed: See what I put up with, ha ha… Oh no, was Debra’s […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred twenty-three)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred twenty-three) A tabloid paper had been shown to Rowan by more than one person. So he printed. It calls itself the Flagstaff, a publication of the type that hatches like a […]
The Totem-Maker (part thirty-nine)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five The Mustering Grounds (part thirty-nine) The knife was iron; together with the shield, too heavy. “Could I fight with only a shield, though?” “Can you kill a man with a blow?” Thoughts of divine justice… But I hadn’t the strength of a […]
Yoharie (part thirteen)
Yoharie Jeremiah (part thirteen) He clipped on his holster and snugged in the Glock…subcompact, 9mm, street legal. He patted the Taser, which he did not take from its holster, because he’d zapped himself once. He clipped his walkie-talkie to the breast pocket of his shirt, checked the zip-ties […]
My Blog Week: April 7 to April 13
All the Latest from Torsade! An episode of Yoharie, Beatty the dog’s entry into the Hibbler house. An episode of Bedlam, Richard touring and trading intelligence with Mrs. Allen. Then Totem, first lessons in how to fight. […]