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Yoharie: Because Society (part five)
Yoharie Because Society (part five) Why, he meant. What are you really saying? Time, Giarma. “Trevor, I think people should not get married.” She found her hands doing Power Point gestures. “I can’t fix this until I hear how it comes out, so hang in. What it is, is… […]
My Blog Week: August 23 to August 29
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week False Scruples For a moment, let’s consider a recent Pew Research Center report of August 11, which finds that the term Latinx is used by only […]
Mathilde Alanic: Shine! (part six)
Mathilde Alanic Shine! (part six) iii. The results of the contest were published, this paragraph passing from the Paris journals to the regional press: We learn with pleasure the success of a young woman of our city, Mlle […]
Flame (poem)
Flame You’re old You’re a tactic with a history purloined memory you tried and applied On the word of a bombast, his nazi*ish ploy it makes the town flame wonder what propagation popped the hinges, and whether here, in this place, a type too coincident gathered, for reasons the investigation hasn’t […]
The Totem-Maker: Crafter Becomes Maker (part six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Crafter Becomes Maker (part six) The Kale-Kale had built Toboro on the strength of their fine craftworkings: the potters, the stonemasons, the jewelers, the weavers. They lived on the sea, they traded by the sea, but did not much sail or fish. The fire mountain left […]
My Blog Week: August 16 to August 22
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Readers, we are here within the Safe Box o’ Fiction, to moot a theoretical scenario. President Whump has again thought of a clever thing. It’ll be a big […]
Mathilde Alanic: Shine! (part five)
Mathilde Alanic Shine! (part five) But Mme Barral insisted. It was difficult to back away…almost against her heart’s counsel, Annie finished the sharing of her news. She saw the widow’s eyes grow round in astonishment. “The first prize! To you?” The exclamation betrayed […]
Switch (poem)
Switch your living was got by pleasing cats unthreading shoestrings of thin cord and leather letting stains that mark deliberations dashed in on places of established quality boundaries where the departed show no signs of rising, stains be left in service to an outreaching new dynamic where the human way, so […]
The Totem-Maker: Crafter Becomes Maker (part five)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Crafter Becomes Maker (part five) Speaking, she rummaged in a chest. These threats pleased me not, but if she would trust me, I might exalt upon that and ask my god’s forgiveness later. In this silence of calculating the politic answer, I lost my chance […]
My Blog Week: August 9 to August 15
All the Latest from Torsade! Marching Orders: American citizens, let Monday, August 17, be the day you go to your county’s Board of Elections website, and put in your request for a mail-in ballot, if that’s the way you plan to vote this year. When you […]