Torsade Literary Space Yoharie: Jeremiah (part one)
Yoharie Jeremiah (part one) “Yeah, Beatty, come on.” Savannah, aged ten, had been so keen on having an Australian Shepherd. Hibbler remembered searching with Kate online for a place they could drive to, open on a Saturday. Take the girls…don’t take them. “It has to be both their […]
Investigation (poem)
Investigation Think of a reasonable start Think of property Attribute Value or character Kernel, bare-bones truth Pith, intrinsic worth, the molten core The heart of gold, the nut Diamond in the rough The call, the mission, cause Awakening The deaf, the empty vessel, cabbage head The beckoning dead, the comfortably seated And […]
Old World Diplomacy: Inimical (episode seventeen)
Inimical Chapter 8 Old World Diplomacy (episode seventeen) Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell? Sleeping or waking? Mad or well advised? Known unto these, and to myself disguised! The Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare April 27, 1937. Kneussl seldom visited his […]
My Blog Week: Feb 18 to Feb 24
All the Latest from Torsade! This week, Book Two of A Figure from the Common Lot began, changing the scene to Cookesville, Indiana, and the centennial year of 1876. Monday’s Inimical concluded Chapter 6, in which Doris gets inspired, and Greta […]
Jerome: part two
A Figure from the Common Lot Jerome (part two) Honoré thought of Gérard, whose present plot of earth would never profit him. “The market must always be better tomorrow than it is today. If Monsieur Serrigny puts me off for a year, it will not seem so bad; and if […]
Alarm-Posts and Signal-Posts: (episode sixteen)
Inimical Chapter 7 Alarm-Posts and Signal-Posts (episode sixteen) “Top-off, Half-gone,” murmured the mouse. “They are such curious names, I cannot but wonder at them.” “That’s because you are always sitting at home,” said the cat, “in your little gray frock and hairy tail, never seeing the world, […]
Free for All: Flash Fiction
Flash Fiction Free for All Suzette, who was going to teach her how to sell lip gloss, nail polish, body cream—H.E.N., the name of the line (it had a meaning, feminist sardonic, and then it had another meaning: Health, Energy, Nature)—had a drawing-in-of-the-lips habit. She had long, impractical fingernails. She’d […]
Totem: The Little I Can Tell (part three)
The Totem-Maker The Little I Can Tell (part three) I was as tall, at length, as the elders. By now our town had doubled in size, from the enclave in which I’d lived alone with the priests, and the woman once my mistress; it had doubled again and […]
The Mutual Friend: Inimical (episode fifteen)
Inimical Chapter 6 The Mutual Friend (episode fifteen) “When I got home…now, I mean in reality when I got home, I knew Al had something on his mind. I found out what, the first time I did the shopping. Because, you see, I always put a dollar in my hairpin […]
My Blog Week: Feb 11 to Feb 17
All the Latest from Torsade! Book One: 1870-1871, of A Figure from the Common Lot, came to its conclusion with this week’s episode. Honoré, loosely supervised, returns to the pursuit of his own interests, thwarting Broughton’s care to find him healthier quarters. […]