Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: November 28 to December 4
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Sensitivity Trap (part two) Unbridled and unassuageable emotional states are the stuff peddled into the cultural discourse by trolls. The idea that […]
Jumping Off: Sand (poem)
Sand doll-forms at craft shops bald sightless blockheads you should watch tutorials on airbrushing rose into cheeks think of a doll for every ethnicity the minefield mechanics of noticing shades of blush Populate a scheme to become a catalogue name with burials in a fold and tab-together box they were smoothed […]
Catastrophe (part four)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique Preface continued (four) At Basse-Terre, we were reassured. At Pointe we found a thousand Martiniquais refugees, of whom around five hundred had come not wanting to stay at Fort-de-France, for being told it was rendered uninhabitable by the previous […]
Hammersmith: Appassionata (chapter thirty-five)
Hammersmith Thirty-Five Appassionata “Got to be very, very cautious. Coat buttons. Wedding ring…” Aimee’s was in a drawer, with Ralph’s cufflinks and lodge pin. Chilly shifted his eyes towards Vic. “If we’d had time to drill on any of this, I’d had you put your coats on inside-out, and mud […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part forty-five)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part forty-five) It was a Monday, a February Monday, the weather dry enough for the staging of Giovanna’s tournament. The crown’s revenues had for 1345 been poor. During the year of Andreas, his spending on revels had drained monies from the […]
My Blog Week: November 21 to November 27
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Sensitivity Trap (part one) [Wash. DC] Evening Star, 11/11/1950, Ad for product Chore Girl [Kansas] Abilene Weekly Reflector, 12/13/1906, article on […]
Catastrophe (part three)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique Preface continued (part three) To report… Now, the fact, at Saint-Pierre, is that these inhabitants wanted to go. And if these seems to you too general, absolutely, take that portion of the inhabitants whose example had the chance of being […]
Hammersmith: Up in the Rafters (chapter thirty-four)
Hammersmith Chapter Thirty-Four Up in the Rafters A curious feature of Mossbunker’s factory (or, for all she knew, an ordinary feature of any factory), was this concealed catwalk below the skylights. Zetland’s team crouched here in darkness. Yet Aimee could picture the hands looking up to a dazzling white daylight, […]
The Culture (poem)
The Culture We are important Our three-letter alphabet Constructs our limited language The gravitational center Draws our attention-seeking message The message is I am important Yet you don’t know me On an oxbow The current passes A fallen tree, submerged At a cross-angle, green murky-brown Depths, hot from the sun […]