Torsade Literary Space 
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred forty-three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred forty-three) Morning arrived, and Castor with the ponies, parting a heavy mist that veiled Torin’s lane. From discontented sleep I had risen before the household…and gained none of the hour of peace and privacy […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred forty-two)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred forty-two) My purpose in these accounts is to teach of my journey to a modest wisdom—which I allow to be revered (for the poor of the land have only the wise to spare them […]
Sequence of Events (part eight)
Sequence of Events Chapter Two Mud in Your Eye i. Luberta Bragg was going out as a woman. The netted chignon was affixed to the headpiece; the headpiece was an evening cap like a wedge of orange…or lemon, she ought to […]
Sequence of Events (part seven)
Sequence of Events Chapter One A Personal Choice Stanley left his bed, found the glass of the window dewed over, a loneliness about the bungalow’s situation, with no outdoor view and surprisingly few noises…a bark, a motor, a footfall… He felt […]
Sequence of Events (part six)
Sequence of Events Chapter One A Personal Choice vi. Today the waves were dangerously high And I chained from the path Climbed until I saw the summit’s bleak shape Echoed in a pillar of cloud My view obscured Stayed here by […]
Sequence of Events (part five)
Sequence of Events Chapter One A Personal Choice v. “Stanley gets the luck of the draw, for showing up unannounced. He’ll have to be a man.” “Stanley brought me a gift.” Phillip slid his braces off with a panache honed in […]
Sequence of Events (part four)
Sequence of Events Chapter One A Personal Choice iv. “I’d thought…or, I’d worried…” Stanley bent with his teacup and saucer over the table, pausing here, and gliding The Mason Bees nearer Freda’s. Freda had leafed The Mason Bees. She had […]
Sequence of Events (part three)
Sequence of Events Chapter One A Personal Choice iii. He’d ridden for the first time, handbag hugged to his chest, in the rear seat of an American taxicab. Larry, with pitying looks, had advised Stanley not to pay the driver […]
Sequence of Events (part two)
Sequence of Events Chapter One A Personal Choice ii. This alleged Mrs. Chamberlain had drawn Freda to a crossroads. At her door she was arrested, the thought of Phillip causing her hand on the key to lock. She found herself […]
Sequence of Events (part one)
Sequence of Events Chapter One A Personal Choice i. Late winter, 1928 He had taken everything. He had taken other people’s stories, grown ruthless to it; stories confided in what amounted to a covenant, between a child of his parish, […]