Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: May 23 to May 29
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week America’s Problem If the title of this piece makes you think of events like this week’s in San Jose, exactly so. After the Colorado […]
A Torsade Digital Gallery (two)
Another collection of art for Torsade that doesn’t exist on paper. Except for the cover art for Are You Haunted, which has a print version on every copy. This is from a painting in progress, where I liked this phase of it, and wanted to preserve what would cease […]
From Rattus: Giddy (poem)
Giddy Come on, come on you blanched and legless hellbender Tucking the lettuce edging of your gills About your trembling shoulders like a shawl You blanched and legless hellbender Smitten by the torchlight Bronzing the sound-proof undulations Of your pit under rock under ooze Your all in all because you feel […]
A Torsade Digital Gallery
Since digital art has been in the news, and so far as anyone understands the phenomenon may be the future of art collecting; and since I had a day of nonwriting work that kept me from preparing a more content-heavy post, I thought I’d share with my readers some of the images I’ve created for […]
Hammersmith: Backborough Lane (chapter sixteen)
Hammersmith Chapter Sixteen Backborough Lane Backborough Lane began with an infirmary, a blood-brick house with a high flight of steps and barred lower windows. These looked a handy vehicle for youngsters to clamber up and peer inside the treatment rooms. The angle of the house crowded the mouth of the […]
My Blog Week: May 16 to May 22
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week It Never Hurts to Ask And the party that found the wherewithal to stage the Maricopa County audit in Arizona is unwilling to support the […]
Dust (poem)
Dust Dust clots on table ends A hiving manufactory within Colluding by concealment Iota by micrometer rebukes The rag itself devolves to lint A cry in code descends in sweat and skin And bakes a cake in corners left unclean Its cumbrance plods uncounted Yet to be sure Fatigued and overladen […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part twenty-one)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part twenty-one) A hand caught her arm. Giovanna shot a wrathful eye at her squire, who had allowed the impertinence, then heard her sister Maria speak. She turned her face, queenly in condemnation. “Giovanna!” Maria urged. “Call him back! Show yourself […]