Torsade Literary Space The Totem-Maker: The Citadel (part eleven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten The Citadel (part eleven) We shed our train of the curious. A fluting whistle from the region of the gates tempted them back; and I, glancing behind to see if the assignment of alms were given to Adzja, saw Egdoah. He erased expression from his face, […]
My Blog Week: October 31 to November 6
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Predators I’m going to tell a story that I hope will be helpful, and may prevent someone being swindled. My mother is eighty-four years […]
Hammersmith: Boxed Goods (chapter thirty-two)
Hammersmith Chapter Thirty-Two Boxed Goods Vic fell too, the second time of an evening in collision with Elton. He liked to count himself almost as spring-loaded as in the days of Rubillard’s Volunteers, intervening decades not…or not too much…withstanding. From thin grass strewn with palm-scoring nuts and bolts, he heaved […]
The Travelers (poem)
The Travelers Time travelers, playbills in hand, shaking the dazzle from their eyes Finding they are on the steps of the old Melodia, tall in her glory The invention new, the first of occasions On which the taboo will be tried Shiloh willing, his ancestor the songstress Who will die […]
Yoharie: Inside (part three)
Yoharie Inside (part three) Yoharie put out a hand for the remote, and zapped the TV screen. Now he had a black mirror. He watched Hibbler, wasp-eyed in sunglasses, tug at a yellow shrub swallowing the garage corner. This tugging, Yoharie surmised, was disapproval. Hibbler interrogated the shrub, and […]
My Blog Week: October 24 to October 30
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week What Comes After Awareness? (3) Glenn Youngkin, the Republican candidate for Virginia governor, has pledged, if he wins, to ban Critical Race Theory on […]