Torsade Literary Space Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part nineteen)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part nineteen) Now the knights themselves arrived. The Queen’s stand shimmered with coifs of tissue cloth, bright plaits of hair, and silk veils. First to enter was the Prince of Taranto on a white horse. The animal’s bronze and azure trappings […]
The Totem-Maker: Lore and Lessons (part six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine Lore and Lessons (part six) They were faced with the problem of loyalties. How to secure them, when no persuasion could be breathed. The council’s reasons were strong, but secret; what they proposed wanted utter abandonment, utter embracing. All that the people knew and were […]
My Blog Week: April 18 to April 24
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Comfort and Convenience We don’t see how easily we internalize the idea that inequality can be deserved. Let’s imagine a totalitarian trend in our politics…not […]
Snares: Fifth Allied Forces
The Folly Allied Forces Snares The woodland affords the falcon— Where hedgish undergrowth shoots in voluntary tangle augmented year by year from half-digestions spat or shat by avian lodgers, nesting a thicket permitted by the landowner (Said to be the blighted Rory Tebbs) to wax untrimmed Has […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part eighteen)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part eighteen) Chapter VII The Queen Moves Sancia di Renato, the Queen’s waiting-woman, held up a corner of the crimson canopy to shade her face from the sun. Her white dress glowed with a rosy reflection, […]
Yoharie: Plumbing (part two)
Yoharie Plumbing (part two) So, the IMAX jaunt…in a world of scant rewards, Hibbler could pat himself on the back for having figured it…had let him refine the list. He cased from his car, got hot, walked Beatty to a tree island and let him shit, saw (opportunely, when […]
My Blog Week: April 11 to April 17
All the Latest from Torsade! Apologies, readers. I did well this week schedule-cramming, but things still popped out at the edges, and I didn’t end up with time to write my WOW piece. I did get some poetry done and new entries for […]
Sum of (poem)
Sum of Long patience, the sort a society of resurrectionists Calls its like-to-like decode of Low resonance A Plan, cryptographical embed, that which Sifts the dead-weight from the Superman A blat from the alpenhorn In figure Reverbs of duty-bound orders, secret Errants who have stood Before the longbow, and sacrificed the […]
Hammersmith: All Safe Bets Off (chapter thirteen)
Hammersmith Chapter Thirteen All Safe Bets Off “Doesn’t seem so long ago.” Mack, unable to do anything about Aimee’s arm hooked through Hogben’s, though it pleased him to see Hogben once or twice give a mild tug, ill-at-ease…had got next to Shaw behind them (he ignored Shaw), and […]