Torsade Literary Space 
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred thirty-eight)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred thirty-eight) When the roadway had broadened further, and on both sides stone blocks supported bright-painted wooden houses, I craned my neck to see spires or domes, or any grandeur that might amount to a […]
Are You Haunted (part fifty-three)
Are You Haunted (part fifty-three) He pointed the cigarette at Isobel. “That distinction tells you a lot. See, Davis had a particular gift. It was the thing I liked about him myself, and I got to know him pretty well. If you introduced him to someone, […]
Are You Haunted (part fifty-two)
Are You Haunted (part fifty-two) “But why should they… Do you mean Mr. Guy? Why should they want to kill you?” “Well, if they stated their intentions among themselves, they would never say so. They might say they wanted to help me. But you see how […]
bark (poem)
bark A New Science you had thought of all yourself coopted by the culture, as though your careful memoir unstocked by the reference libraries of most, could be outrun by a browse at the salad bar of information A short intro, or the first of a bulleted list of Key […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred thirty-seven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred thirty-seven) Our road began to descend. Trees clung less precariously to banks that did not vault, but sloped. Soon the trees’ variety had much increased, and the loneliness of the mountain crags gave way […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred thirty-six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Twelve A Land So Perilous (part one hundred thirty-six) Chance, in the fullness of time, might have come to the Kale Kale. They might, for grasping at freedom, have found they could feel entitled to freedom. They might have sought […]
Are You Haunted (part fifty-one)
Are You Haunted (part fifty-one) He shivered in his undershirt, hugging himself as though he’d been caught outside half-dressed in midwinter. He knew outside it was warm. He was thirsty and unwilling to move. He was hungry, and there was no help for that. But there […]
Are You Haunted (part fifty)
Are You Haunted (part fifty) As with any event sudden and surprising, the first explosion occurred in the midst of ordinary preoccupations. A deep rumble shook the ground. A row of windows on the mill floor exposed a flash of light, and when flames shot through […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred thirty-five)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Twelve A Land So Perilous (part one hundred thirty-five) “They do not.” Bani’s father was heavyhearted with misgiving, but his misgivings were not the fancies of a boy. “Those demons were no other than the strangers at the lake. They […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred thirty-four)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Twelve A Land So Perilous (part one hundred thirty-four) The stage where priests would conduct their burnings and auguries must be assembled and festooned within the amphitheater. Where, too, for three days before the feast, would be the throng of […]