Torsade Literary Space 
The Totem-Maker (part eighty-nine)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part eighty-nine) I held my familiar to the sunlight, to have it shine prettily. I was shy of the face, allowing that one could be deluded… That, having the ambition to succeed, I might invent my […]
Are You Jealous (part seven)
Are You Jealous (part seven) “You have taken it all apart and put it back together?” “I have done more. I have copied each part, fabricated a twin to it. I have made a second clock. The second clock does not work.” “Did the first ever, though?” […]
Are You Jealous (part six)
Are You Jealous (part six) Reiff, white hair in minimalist proportion to brow, brow deeply furrowed with the demands of craftsmanship, and coming cliff-like over blue eyes…also was capable of emerging from a trap, it appeared. “You know me?” “Who else am I expecting?” If this […]
Are You Jealous (part five)
Are You Jealous (part five) Her grandmother, two months dead, had been the wardrobe’s embodiment. Love was not her feeling for the clock. She had used it, pointed to it, opened the door, closed the door. While the clock, the splendid clock, the painted clock, the chiming […]
Are You Jealous (part four)
Are You Jealous (part four) He looked at the next email, Emil Reiff’s request for payment. He looked twice. The clock gave a brief twinkling note, as it struck the half-hour. How could the repairs have cost so much? Reiff had not itemized; he extenuated nothing…but he […]
Are You Jealous (part three)
Are You Jealous (part three) He saw an unfamiliar name. He saw Presby’s name in the subject line. He was unsurprised to see a spare deconstructed logo behind an outline of city towers… Which drew itself further to become a chair and desk. The background was a […]
Are You Jealous (part two)
Are You Jealous (part two) “What do you think?” Eva asked. Since he hadn’t been listening, he countered with a question of his own. “Have you decided to sell it?” “My clock?” Coquettish hand to heart. “I’ll never sell my clock. McFadden says it’s only middle-range. But […]
Are You Jealous (part one)
Are You Jealous (part one) Gabriel heard Eva’s voice…her put-on voice, he called it. She spoke this way to delivery people, sing-song, thanking them, ushering them out the door. He heard the door close, whoosh into its frame followed by the thunk of the bolt. He heard […]
Story: Sympathy for the Torturer (conclusion)
Sympathy for the Torturer (part six) As soon as Anton sank into an upper-tier seat, close to the steps, he was joined by a uniformed officer. So it had…his badge, traveling on his person, signaled his violation. “If I don’t get off. If I only ride, and come back […]
Are You Haunted (part thirty-two)
Are You Haunted (part thirty-two) One electric bulb stuck in a joist-mounted socket over the steps. The rest lit by windows, or by nothing. But at the landing Tovey had cached two kerosene lanterns. He struck a match, lighting one, thrust this at Powell and lit […]