Torsade Literary Space Mathilde Alanic: Shine! (part forty-one)
Mathilde Alanic Shine! (part forty-one) When she woke, a wan morning light was shining through her window’s upper glass. Her bleary eyes were attracted by a square of paper near the door, a notecard, its mauve hue standing out against the parquet. Curious, […]
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 […]
Four-leaf clover (poem)
Four-leaf clover When she’s dead they’ll clothe her False to claim they’d known her In a room of duty saving hours of light Mothballs give a church scent Skirt-clad hips span bench lengths She slips indoors alive Why is it not yet over? Holdouts dare suppose her Likelier than they […]
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 […]
Mathilde Alanic: Shine! (part forty)
Mathilde Alanic Shine! (part forty) “I’m trying to breathe life into him. My paleographer teaches me agricultural practices of the 18th century. You see where that leads me!” “But your task above all is to make the action alive, and gripping. Your building-blocks […]
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, […]