Torsade Literary Space Abnormalizing (poem)
Abnormalizing Should Dr. Comus mount to the podium Begged before he dies, of a valediction, lightning-bolted by the gaze When freed as angels his victims anneal him And words break out, in patterns of revealing His ilk, his false-named friends, a younger colleague A theoretician, but a go-getter, they turn them out […]
The Totem-Maker: Winter Alone (part nine)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five Winter Alone (part nine) On the general’s dining porch, shuttered and hung with fleeces, hot–centered and smoky as would my master’s be… As would be at Cime’s house. I entered the room lonely, being no one’s friend in this place, my servant […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique: sixty-five
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (sixty-five) I have still other letters, other notes, but those above, I believe, suffice to show in what terrors, in what fearfulness, perished Saint-Pierre… And above all, serve for proof that if they had let the people be free […]
Sequence of Events: Anarchy (part two)
Sequence of Events Chapter Thirteen Anarchy (part two) Another face surprised her, a man’s appearing outside the window, just as Florrie had settled back against the seat and glanced up. He had a dog on a leash. The dog, jumping on its hind legs, peered through the glass as […]
Celebrated (part seventeen)
Celebrated (part seventeen) “Well, Brill’s pal, partner…did you ever meet Ian Charles Guiness?” “Was he…?” Tom gestured, slicking a palm above his head. The hairstyle, yes…the blow-dried loft. Also, there had been long carpety sideburns. But she completed for him, “A son of […]
My Blog Week: July 7 to July 12
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week You Sweet Talker I begin with the diplomatic contretemps that led to British ambassador Kim Darroch’s resignation. Let’s stop to imagine a leader (who doesn’t, among other things, blame his […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique: sixty-four
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (sixty-four) And so the people were afraid. They felt the danger. They had a presentiment of something which would overwhelm them. People with scientific pretensions spoke of the collapse of the mountain, of an earthquake. Others did not […]