Torsade Literary Space Hammersmith: Trenches Manned (chapter thirty)
Hammersmith Chapter Thirty Trenches Manned Mossbunker having secured his contract to supply cabling to the American Expeditionary Force, in theory the works might be targeted by spies. To the outside eye, he had not altered arrangements. Aimee, with Curach, lay flat against the slope of a ditch, at the factory’s […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part forty)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part forty) “You have seen the body. Your eyes are witness, Lord. Shall such witness be gainsaid? But allow…though I insult you to suggest it… For how a man might bring himself to suspect these good women…! No, ignore me. But […]
The Totem-Maker: The Citadel (part nine)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten The Citadel (part nine) “Adzja, you may labor at your studies today. I am going down to the city.” I looked at her, saying this, because I suspected her of being my watcher as well as my servant. But she finished cornering a cloth on my […]
My Blog Week: October 3 to October 9
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week What Comes After Awareness? Somehow the warning we’ve been given, long past, and several times, is eluding us. The Mueller Report (2019) detailed how […]
Hammersmith: Night Maneuvers (chapter twenty-nine)
Hammersmith Chapter Twenty-Nine Night Maneuvers Elton Bott advanced in stealth through the gloaming. Soft expressions into tussocky grass, of right foot, followed by left foot, heel rolled to toe—an art attributed by their Chief to the Iroquois, and a single-file exercise on which the Patriots had drilled—did not stop various […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part thirty-nine)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part thirty-nine) Hands attached to her bare arms, as in her shift she bent over the window ledge, staring, searching. A contrary thing in Maria’s heart made her refuse any gasp or cry. She turned, and slowly. “Sister, I was only […]
Yoharie: Inside (part two)
Yoharie Inside (part two) “So, your foot is a complicated appendage. Each toe, even your pinky toe, is sending signals, by its own neural pathway, to the brain. And your brain uses all that information to orient itself in space. It doesn’t like what it has to learn when […]
My Blog Week: September 26 to October 2
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week This and That I’m not a hugely followed person on Twitter, but I enjoy a tiny give-and-take on current events, and like others in […]