Torsade Literary Space Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part forty-four)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part forty-four) Chapter Twelve The Last Masquerade Maria rode with her sister in a light, open cart, drawn by a white horse. Between them in honour sat the old Hungarian woman, a pet now of Giovanna’s. […]
Catastrophe (part two)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique Preface continued (two) The fifth of May, when the volcano had ravaged the valley of the Rivière-Blanche, and the approaches to the Prêcheur, he [Mouttet] alerted Paris. The sixth of May, when the volcano, in devastating the valley of the […]
Approachable: Sixth Allied Forces
The Folly Allied Forces Approachable Rain falls, a light and misty one, the best of sorts As they of the night patrol who require the pull of it Have medium to prowl the grounds in broader swaths Simon Tattersby, avoiding Lady Gimple and Roscoe Matey and inseparable, […]
Please Help (part two)
Short Stories Please Help (part two) The man whipped round from the window and stooped by the mattress. “Take it!” he told Milton. This needed a paraphrase. It made no sense. Milton repeated his orders. “Take your phone. Go to the store…how come I wouldn’t just go to the […]
Yoharie: Inside (part four)
Yoharie Inside (part four) Secret rooms, stay focused. Yoharie’s up there calling for help. Basements don’t have back doors. If they corner you, it’s over. Hibbler drew his gun. You could slide furniture to hide a hatch… There could be a chamber under the floor. Could there? He remembered […]
My Blog Week: November 7 to November 13
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Faux Avenue All activist communities produce a fringe. On one side is commercialism, leading to compromised coziness with corporate interests. Opposite is performance politics, […]
La Catastrophe de la Martinique (one)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (notes of a reporter) 1902 To the lost souls of forty thousand of Saint-Pierre I dedicate this work of a reporter. Preface Forty thousand victims… This statistic is not exact […]
Rattus
Rattus Intuition, extra sense, if you like Déjà-vu in a prototypic vermin mind We are having telepathic conversation Embracing sight’s elusive romance (To be a genius. To be not at fault for this.) How are we going to solve a problem? Working backwards from the outcome The treat is hidden in […]
Hammersmith: Showtime (chapter thirty-three)
Hammersmith Chapter Thirty-Three Showtime McKeefe’s was a rough house. Minnie had played to bad crowds…most of them bad, before Cal Bruce had signed her as opening act. Still worst spot on the slate, the touts hauling rubes off the street, half the audience rummaging in their bags, and you with […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part forty-three)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part forty-three) The cellar where the body lay had four lights. These were openings calculated into the convent’s foundation, blocked at night by shutters—boards roughly fit, having chocks of wood nailed on for handles. But the hour was midday, and Andreas […]