Torsade Literary Space 
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-seven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten Crafter Becomes Maker (part ninety-seven) Noakale kept me at her side during those days the suitor and his entourage eked into Lord Ei’s establishment. She was certain of her strength, quite untroubled by the loftiness of Darsale, the sourness […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten Crafter Becomes Maker (part ninety-six) I was given to Noakale to entertain, or be entertained by. Please allow me, I told her, to share in the needlework. For as Shenath’s visit will have had you guessing, the household prepared […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-five)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part ninety-five) He answered with a long sober silence. Then: “I will want Wosogo. I should summon Lord Ei as well. Wosogo has told me not to speak to you, that if the god Lotoq favors […]
Are You Haunted (part thirty-three)
Are You Haunted (part thirty-three) Bricks were all over the property, easy to gather; all over the cellar, already dusted up. Fresh mortar would have to be stained, but the stuff to stain it with was right here. A coat of something sticky…even water. A broom […]
Are You Jealous (conclusion)
Are You Jealous (part twelve) They fetched up on the rim of a circle whose center was another Henderson, further elongated, alike pale-eyed and hawk-nosed. Gabriel knew of no famous Youngs. He could not place the man he assumed to be Henderson’s brother. He supposed it delightful […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-four)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part ninety-four) “And because you are persuasive, he will surrender his city to the Emperor. We avoid bloody war.” “Why, I ask you back…Why war at all? Let me answer. I can live peacefully with my […]
Are You Jealous (part eleven)
Are You Jealous (part eleven) Presby cast her a look of warm sympathy. The eyeglasses sketched encompassing circles. “We find desirable items from the interwar era,” he told Young. “Individuals, rather than starve, relinquished heirlooms.” “It was a period of great poverty in Europe.” “Factories unable to […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part ninety-three) “No, I won’t rush you.” He had made to rise, sank again. The fingers of a hand began to tap. “I ought to find the educated ones, the lawyers. And the talkers, the courtiers…convene […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-two)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part ninety-two) “What, again, do I not believe, my subtle young friend?” I felt I had caught myself, for opening my argument from a place within my thoughts. “If you had brought your household to me […]
Are You Jealous (part ten)
Are You Jealous (part ten) “Other purposes by then, as I was saying. Is she coming back?” Of an intern, or graduate student, making towards the couple. They sat smiling in the braced manner of those who have had enough of a person. Gabriel felt he would […]