Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: March 24 to March 30
All the Latest from Torsade! The week began with “An Ordinary Signal Drop” from The Folly, the second in the Pale Knight arc. On Monday, a new essay in the “Malice” series, introducing a principle via scenario; Tuesday, Sequence of Events had […]
Godfrey: Third Pale Knight
The Folly The Legend of the Pale Knight Godfrey ‘I don’t like to be a bore…’ That, she says, is the wrong way to begin a tale You’ll have me fearing the worst Not either in the proper sense ‘Well…because people have tended, quite literally, to wander off.’ […]
Yoharie: Security Check (part one)
Yoharie Security Check (part one) It would be a bad moment for Yoharie, if someone rang the front bell. He wanted Dawn and the kids to get out—leave him alone, yes—but above all, since they had this nice place, and there was a little money at last, let […]
Assorted Opinions: With Malice Towards None (part four)
Assorted Opinions To Whom Do You Refer (With Malice Towards None: part four) Scenario One: Darrin has a habit of walking up behind Willa while she works at her desk, putting his hand on one of her shoulders, and leaning over the other to see what she has […]
An Ordinary Signal Drop: Second Pale Knight
The Folly The Legend of the Pale Knight An Ordinary Signal Drop It impressed me, acquainted me, the unspeakable more normality than horror at a glance shivering loose, like flakes of plated gilding painted over with a garden scene Shoes, parasol, a hand suspended holding still its cup […]
My Blog Week: March 17 to March 23
All the Latest from Torsade! On Sunday, the Pale Knight arc of The Folly began its reissue, with “Virginia Keltenham”, an author currently renting the Folly while the others have cleared out. The guest soon finds himself summoned back. […]
The Totem-Maker: Winter Alone (part three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five Winter Alone (part three) The mustering grounds, within the ramparts of the fort, met my eyes dressed in the panoply of a fair day. I had never thought to see the inside of a garrison’s stronghold. And could not imagine the fort in its sobriety… […]
From Superstition the Pendulum (poem)
From Superstition the Pendulum Your face carried home from the scene of horror Let nature raise you a colossus that prows Prows astraddle the edge of all landfalls Clocks will crack and mirrors stop Unluckiness the hostelman calls to roost The iron ring for a knocker hangs Sounds wood and metalcraft, […]
The Lab-Grown Brain Makes Philosophy (poem)
The Lab-Grown Brain Makes Philosophy It is material to our essential understanding of power, if in defining good and evil we first grant that neither without what we will term actionability, is able to escape the formlessness of thought, taking thought as both a prompt to the accessing of images stored […]
Virginia Keltenham: First Pale Knight
The Folly The Legend of the Pale Knight Virginia Keltenham ‘Those deadly people. They’d like me a bit Elinor Glyn-ish But then they want sentiment. But then, of course, they don’t. They want some dismal comeuppance for bad behaviour, a heroine like one of Lawrence’s stultifying Magdalene figures. […]