Torsade Literary Space Bride to Be (part thirteen)
Bride to Be (part thirteen) Tamarilde woke, the third month at her husband’s side The house of his childhood theirs, this rude place No part of her plan had failed them The dead, from the summit seen Lay a rippling cloak of black feathers And the flies, even here indoors, […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part thirty-three)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part thirty-three) “What, so far?” Henryk said, seating himself. “We have established that the Queen’s sister lies in her room, unwell.” In the embarrassment of his counsellor’s discourtesy, Andreas overlooked this, that such news had not been established; that he was […]
The Totem-Maker: The Citadel (part six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten The Citadel (part six) And what was the Citadel, when finally I saw it? Not for the first time. When long ago I had spoke to Wosogo, I had seen that odd configuration, the plain at the foot of vast stoneworks, the green valley safe on […]
My Blog Week: August 8 to August 14
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Lab Rats Although not as intense as hit of cocaine, positive social stimuli will similarly result in a release of dopamine, reinforcing whatever […]
Hammersmith: You Never See It Coming (chapter twenty-five)
Hammersmith Chapter Twenty-Five You Never See It Coming He had lost out on the chance to get up to Philly and talk in private with Le Fontainebleau. Even this, thinking of it, irritated Shaw…not merely because he was soft on Aimee Bard, and might have permitted for the […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part thirty-two)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part thirty-two) Chapter X September Eighteenth He shut the door, finding it could not be bolted. Neither a hasp of metal, nor a board to be laid into brackets, barred visitors. But why should a […]
Poem: Neither Do You
Neither Do You Take no recovery for granted ignorant of specifics a disinterested organ in your gut Adipose in makeup, loyal as oil in support of fatly rights hunkers deep in hospitality, coat for a winter of nuclear strength Fact-checks the assertion of classes among colonial biospheres Asseverates that independently the […]
My Blog Week: August 1 to August 7
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Religion, at its heart (But, first…) What, no dessert? I was surprised to learn this week, after a lifetime […]