The Assassin Comes: Fourth German Spy
The Folly The German Spy The Assassin Comes It amounts to when No sacrifice without advantage (mein Herr) as to chessmen But players on the scene bump in In her room, Krug diligent and dozy …not allowing sleep Lies still and lets the streetlamp Inform him […]
My Blog Week: April 19 to April 25
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Credentialing A brief word, because it’s been a difficult week to get things done. Global death rates from COVID-19, according to the Reuters daily chart, are […]
The Totem-Maker: The Recalcitrant One (part nine)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Seven The Recalcitrant One (part nine) My immediate fate was as I’d predicted. The merchant, Tazt Shenath, begged my company that short way up the road, to the stronghold of Lord Ei. He had jested about the game, but was in earnest as to games and more, […]
The Watchman: Third German Spy
The Folly The German Spy The Watchman She would, Agnes, the wife, or helpmeet (this was possible) approach the embassy Possible unlikely She would, on an island nation folded, in state laid cerebral along the coast (the brain an aging cheese encroached…by mites…active pissing virtue upon the […]
My Blog Week: April 12 to April 18
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Foolishly Fatalistic Fatalism is the near enemy of mission. Mission is the reason we live. If we are conscious and autonomous, we can do some good […]
Eight: Purity (poetry series)
Purity Can you be more use to the world? Wend into your twilight and return your minerals The tab-man counts the unatoned dollar Spent to see firsthand A grateful Europe wrought upon by science You accept that power seeks its balance That men of vision won all this for you You […]