Torsade Literary Space Heneglwys: Second Allied Forces
The Folly Allied Forces Heneglwys Sir, In my researches into the vanished tribes Which predate the era of Coel Hen Who, I need hardly tell you, is known to the modern reader of the nursery rhyme A prelate of that village which calls itself Heneglwys Whom […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (intro part four)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! Introduction: part four A Different Kind of Translation, continued: The format of a story—not its paragraphing style, but the skeletal shape into which a fiction is introduced—will deliver engagement or fail to, depending on whether the form has […]
Yoharie: Love Back (part four)
Yoharie Love Back (part four) “Twist and bump.” Val clipped three into the crown of his hair, and had Sasha, so instructed, do the ones in back. Everyone needs loft. This is how you get the bangs to stand away from your forehead, so they look good, instead […]
My Blog Week: November 8 to November 14
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Going Forward Suppose you had an app, for spreadsheets or some such, used frequently and loved—but one day a virus came to infect it. Every document shared […]
Celebrated (part eight)
Novella Celebrated (part eight) She stirred. He said, “Hold it!” And: “Here. I’ll trade places with you.” He plucked at the zipper of her open parka, squeezing past. Tom wore a jeans jacket, his hands fairly numb. He brought the Kodak’s viewfinder to his eyeball, […]
Assorted Opinions: Unusual Turnout
Assorted Opinions Unusual Turnout Much noise has been made this week in pursuit of voter fraud claims…so far found unwarranted. But there’s another side to this coin that the noise drowns out: election fraud. Tales of voter fraud—individuals forging ID in some way, then voting more than once—have the […]
Jumping Off: I Could Not (poem)
I Could Not [the first of the guests uses a phrase] …that morning… She will have you join her, mourning A songbird’s nest shot scattered from a spruce Clumsy handle of her rake It is all a metaphor for loss [the second of the guests plays about] a potent word […]
Jumping Off: If Only Others (poem)
If Only Others Outed from bark made mulch by thermal shock the beetle takes a chill that starts a frail cough a worm’s meandering charts the tops an infestation census-taker feels the math mid-century young adulthood’s unexpected death on meeting the proboscis of a predatory wasp synthesis in skin and bone […]
The Totem-Maker: Crafter Becomes Maker (part eleven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Crafter Becomes Maker (part eleven) “That I would have thought of for myself. But give the order.” He bowed, and his first retreating steps he took backwards. Unless he were incurable, he would not keep this up. Egdoah was joined to our party, a pleasure […]
My Blog Week: November 1 to November 7
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Yippie Yi Yay My fellow American writers, and our country’s well-wishers everywhere… (Wishing you well right back!) It may be a little hard, since Saturday, […]