Torsade Literary Space Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part forty)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part forty) “You have seen the body. Your eyes are witness, Lord. Shall such witness be gainsaid? But allow…though I insult you to suggest it… For how a man might bring himself to suspect these good women…! No, ignore me. But […]
Beware of Fours (poem)
Beware of Fours Magic threes no more, beware of fours A fear inducer without weight, absenting light, a shadow A sense of shadow One morning the character walks in the rain The after-rain, the water in yellowing Beds of flowers beaded And closing skies of short fall days And knows the […]
The Totem-Maker: The Citadel (part nine)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten The Citadel (part nine) “Adzja, you may labor at your studies today. I am going down to the city.” I looked at her, saying this, because I suspected her of being my watcher as well as my servant. But she finished cornering a cloth on my […]
My Blog Week: October 3 to October 9
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week What Comes After Awareness? Somehow the warning we’ve been given, long past, and several times, is eluding us. The Mueller Report (2019) detailed how […]
Mathilde Alanic: Shine! (part fifty-three)
Mathilde Alanic Shine! (part fifty-three) Epilogue Extract from Annie’s notebook It has been two years today. Two years, since I arrived at the house, to find the shutters closed. Between the slats, rays of a pale yellow […]
Hammersmith: Night Maneuvers (chapter twenty-nine)
Hammersmith Chapter Twenty-Nine Night Maneuvers Elton Bott advanced in stealth through the gloaming. Soft expressions into tussocky grass, of right foot, followed by left foot, heel rolled to toe—an art attributed by their Chief to the Iroquois, and a single-file exercise on which the Patriots had drilled—did not stop various […]