Torsade Literary Space All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-seven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-seven) iv. Daughters Her sister let the shirtwaist fall, one of the spaniels too interested… In snuffling deep, as a dog near blind with age will, the scent […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-six) “Ma’am.” She wasn’t sure, the rhododendron masking them from one another, that Lawrence could be speaking to her. A moment passed, while neither Élucide nor Mrs. Koker answered. “Ma’am,” he said […]
My Blog Week: September 11 to September 17
All the Latest from Torsade! On Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, All Bedlam Courses Past, carrying Élucide’s pursuit of an Everard to meet Bertrand Sartain to the brink of defeat, and the beginning of an unsatisfactory dinner party. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-five)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-five) The start of a speech that would have done. They were hurting not Élucide Gremot, but Bertrand Sartain, a man who would never in return hurt them, or any soul in […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-four) The hand that struck Richard was his mother’s. Verbena, swallowing cries, had been rising from the cot and lowering herself. She stood now. “I don’t have no filth in my house! […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-three)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-three) The cabin had one room altogether, a cot mattressed by the full store of quilts, a barrel stove, home-crafted, in a corner; and the braided rug and patriarchal armchair from the […]
My Blog Week: September 4 to September 10
All the Latest from Torsade! On Monday, All Bedlam Courses Past, and Élucide’s latest sighting of Richard. Wednesday, a new episode of “The Resident”, with Gemma detailing more of time travel. Thursday, “The Tambinder Engine” and Deenie’s attempt […]
The Totem-Maker (part thirteen)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Two Jealousy (part thirteen) The porter led Lom to the terrace’s threshold, preceding a new-arrived visitor for whom Lom rightfully served as vanguard, Cime. Sente did not rise. “Can I fairly suppose, Sente, that the law touches you at last?” Mine was the eye […]
The Resident (part nineteen)
Chapter Three Tithonians (part nineteen) I simplify. I don’t want to create an odd picture, of someone’s knocking at a kitchen door, offering treats… The first time machine was a tunnel, small and short, between functional ends. These were globe-shaped, one each in adjacent rooms. […]