Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: January 24 to January 30
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Hypnosis Let’s imagine that you start an online business. A subscription service, for which customers supply you their email addresses. You call yourself Cerqe, and claim […]
Celebrated (part nineteen)
Celebrated (part nineteen) This third day of Tom’s visit, they sat on the studio futon, a cat between them, Gingerpie; a stack of typewritten sheets, and the manuscript’s tattered manila envelope, under the cat. It was her own topic, The Lost Man, and it […]
Hammersmith: Helping Hands (chapter five)
Hammersmith Chapter Five Helping Hands She detected Mr. Hogben’s voice, and thought a sort of misery colored his inarticulate grunts. The other man she knew at once for a stranger. Now and again she could hear Minnie Leybourne. Mostly the stranger, passionate. War an invention of the military interests, an […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part eight)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part eight) The Hungarians followed thundering across the great square and drew up their horses at the gates of the Castel del Nuovo. Before the crowd, that murmured and drew closer, the guard challenged them. “Be ashamed you welcome me […]
Eight: agreement (poetry series)
agreement 1) is a murderer the new celebrity 2) are bong shops good for failing towns 3) new technology or none? 4) if we mined all the gemstones now a) could we bulldoze tidy covers b) grow greenswards to obliviate temptation c) have forests and orangutans d) trade shares in […]
My Blog Week: January 17 to January 23
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week As I told you last week, I’ve been rereading a favorite from the past, the Lloyd Alexander series, The Chronicles of Prydain. I thought I’d share this: […]
Celebrated (part eighteen)
Celebrated (part eighteen) Enderley caught him. “Mr. Carter hasn’t gone out?” “No, he hasn’t, Mr. Enderley, and he doesn’t mean to. Says so.” “Moore…” The head steward then told him to do just what he was doing. “Go to your berth, if […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part seven)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part seven) Chapter III The Entry into Naples The midday sun burned in the blazing white streets. Heavy on the air lay the perfume of Sorrento’s orange groves, while the city rang with the tolling […]
Amulet Two (poem)
Amulet Two Corin’s parents, in the satellite radio boom Had been a pair of patterers playing the roles of that shopping couple at the home improvement store On the strength of which they’d been given their live show… Times alter fates. No call to say busted down, but relegated to a […]
The Totem-Maker: Crafter Becomes Maker (part fifteen)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Crafter Becomes Maker (part fifteen) “Zaza, break your egg and wish you had made better gifts,” Iokka whispered to her. She snatched up her treasure instead, cradling the egg safe as though he might steal it. To his brother slowest of wit, Iokka whispered next: […]