Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: March 31 to April 6
All the Latest from Torsade! Three episodes this week of Bedlam, with Richard gleaning big news in Indiana, moving on with the Allens to Cincinnati. Then Totem with the trial’s aftermath, a walk home that feels fateful. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred nineteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred nineteen) i. Dedication Weighty things were the theme of January’s hard frost. That country roads be concrete, passable for a custom sledge sporting double sets of steel-rimmed wheels and a […]
The Totem-Maker (part thirty-seven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five The Mustering Grounds (part thirty-seven) Four days in which I’d expected, shunned and alone here, to meditate, to pray, that if the gods willed any service of me, they would grant the charity of revelation. “You say start…” His laugh was angry, […]
The Tambinder Engine (part twelve)
The Tambinder Engine A McAlley Story (part twelve) He was there, his old self, at a dim-lit table. She hadn’t showered. She hadn’t expected human talk with anyone, not this day. But it wasn’t embarrassment leadening her feet; it was Matthew, how he stared three-quarters to her. How daylight through […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred eighteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred eighteen) A slow fall was the only practical choice, paced by a wall rising left. At its finale, the wall sat six feet or so, water oozing from broken pipe-heads along the way. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred seventeen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred seventeen) He puffed his cheeks at last, ending a struggle. Did it take chalking on a marquee your last remark had been sarcasm, that you were not a friend to any Gremot, least […]
The Totem-Maker (part thirty-six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five The Mustering Grounds (part thirty-six) We were down the steps, into the sunset shadows of tall houses and steep-pitched streets. Down from the hills that overlooked the Sech-apla, a green plain cut by the sea, a crescent of empty terrace where in […]
My Blog Week: March 24 to March 30
All the Latest from Torsade! Two episodes this week of The Totem-Maker, with testimony from a seasoned knight, and Lady Nyma’s judgment. The Bedlam episode takes Richard into the river town to show his talent for Allen’s avocation. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred sixteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred sixteen) He said: “I saw they had his name pasted up over the othern’s, fell sick.” “So Allen,” he said, “is a little bit known around here.” “People,” he said, “would come out […]
My Blog Week: March 18 to March 23
All the Latest from Torsade! I have two more cartoons in the works, so I’m just catching up this time by taking the weeks in order. The episodes of Bedlam detail Richard’s first foray with a counterfeit bill, […]