Torsade Literary Space 
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten Crafter Becomes Maker (part one hundred six) “Yes, A’an.” “Tell him he will go to the lake, at the mountaintop. He will see for himself.” “But, A’an…” “They give no instruction to children of the shantytown.” This was a […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred five)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten Crafter Becomes Maker (part one hundred five) A scene for you, if I conjure well, of a jumble of dwellings, balanced at hazard. Yet brave, in the weavings of cloths used to cover drafts, the glaze of mosaic for […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred four)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten Crafter Becomes Maker (part one hundred four) But I spoke to invite. We of the coastal lands were a type, the northerners a different type. The traders, from what I’d seen of them, a third type. Noakale had not […]
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 […]