Torsade Literary Space Amulet (poem)
Amulet First carry a sofa onto the stage Foreshortening allows the table feet away The table is useful, its magazines and small props Prompting lines of dialogue The actress has complained about the velvet That carries light beautifully but catches at her tights She and he perch in three-quarter pose More […]
The Totem-Maker: Crafter Becomes Maker (part eight)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Crafter Becomes Maker (part eight) “I know you can make a decent showing for yourself, unless…” The Peddler toed my wrapped bow and arrows. “This living inside the scholarly head proves a rusty affair. A poor man like myself must hunt to eat, as he would […]
My Blog Week: September 20 to September 26
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Hold the Bird Chuck Grassley, the senator from Iowa, tweeted this week about a pigeon found dead on his farm. This narrative somewhat incoherent and persistently ill-spelled, flashed […]
Celebrated (part one)
Novella Celebrated (part one) He is disappointed in the hope of regaining his lost health. Week after week, month after month, year after year, he waits for the termination of his sufferings. He tries to apply the remainder of his strength to […]
Flash Fiction: May Day
A few years ago, Hogarth Press started the Shakespeare Project, contracting with famous authors to write novels in a modern interpretation of the plays. I haven’t worked my way to famous yet, but I liked the idea. The one I would have latched onto was The Comedy of Errors…setting it in the McCarthy […]
Ash (poem)
Ash You were bound to burn out your time that short fuse not adequate to the role of guiding light, beacon on a hill Steady star by lost at sea to navigate More the fuming little stick of dynamite laid like landmines, planned things ran afoul of the implacable hour You […]
Yoharie: Because Society (part six)
Yoharie Because Society (part six) “Is your brother still living at home?” “Where do people live, if they don’t live at home?” She knew the point was weak…while, the day she moved in fulltime with Trevor, she would of course be at home. “I still see him go […]
My Blog Week: September 13 to September 19
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Good and the Bad When the People-in-Charge manage to do good these days, they do it inadvertently, under ironic circumstances. Sometimes by being so bad that a […]
Fog Bound (poem)
Fog Bound The short life of an early riser A trawler…sort of that Resigned to his smokes and mists His captive’s steps delay the epitaph And every, of his days, has him by the throat From a pipe he puffs as one would etch In the present tongue A messenger’s dry-leafed […]
The Totem-Maker: Crafter Becomes Maker (part seven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Crafter Becomes Maker (part seven) “His knife he must carry. His two companions wait for him below the ridge that encircles the lake. He will in great stealth approach. With speed and in secret descend, and tell what he has seen.” Some of these words […]