Torsade Literary Space 
Are You Haunted (part thirty-eight)
Are You Haunted (part thirty-eight) To gain time, he risked letting go with a foot, just toeing the bannister below. A trick that as a schoolkid he could have done any day of the week. Spring off, touch down on carpeted steps almost without noise— He […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten Crafter Becomes Maker (part one hundred three) I was little consulted as to the ordering of my own affairs, but proofs of my mission finding itself peopled and supplied appeared daily at the margins of my attention. I lay […]
Are You Haunted (part thirty-seven)
Are You Haunted (part thirty-seven) He had been smoking a cigarette, a few minutes’ freedom before reporting for duty. He took the jeep at a snail’s pace to an intersecting lane where rubble sat rammed aside, crawling back regathering itself, one brick hand ahead of another. […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred two)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten Crafter Becomes Maker (part one hundred two) Noakale was by some means inspired to join our conclave; and Lord Ei, watching her down the hill, stopped a swift rise and sat—stone-faced again. I had not seen Noakale with her […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred one)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten Crafter Becomes Maker (part one hundred one) His Alëenon speech was of a dialect; at least, his vowels were differently said. “Pravor Tnoch,” Wosogo said, “is captain of the city of Husdor, the only other of this land.” I […]
Are You Haunted (part thirty-six)
Are You Haunted (part thirty-six) He could see the full path of the streambed, hilltop to roadside. A deep hollow below the dogleg, a well without contour. He overlaid this with snow, glittering feet of it. He wished he could see the ghost…if she would show […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten Crafter Becomes Maker (part one hundred) “No, Vlan. Will you take the place I held, and let me sit at your feet? That will be more fitting.” I led the way. “I ask to be given a mission. I […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-nine)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten Crafter Becomes Maker (part ninety-nine) “What are we to talk about, Wosogo? I have been totting up my needs, but you arrive too soon. Taken out of order, then… The Prince will vouch for the Emperor’s authority? Has the […]
Are You Haunted (part thirty-five)
Are You Haunted (part thirty-five) They heard the floorboard bump. Lois drew breath. Alfin pushed up. Dennis half-closed his eyes and glanced with this arch face at Isobel, then Powell. “Mr. Rohdl!” Summers called. “Will you come down?” Motions, and Rohdl came, haggard and wild-haired, to […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-eight)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten Crafter Becomes Maker (part ninety-eight) I explored the garden’s squares-within-squares, thick-needled shrubs outermost, their branches appealing to the heavens, their hearts chopped. These were Lord Ei’s supply of firewood. Tracing the path to the very wall, I found that […]