Torsade Literary Space Hammersmith: More Peaceful Pursuits (cont’d)
Hammersmith Chapter Thirty-Seven More Peaceful Pursuits Yesterday, if Hogben had got right—through the buffeting chaos—the drift of the hours… Yesterday, he had wandered room to room, itching. Take yourself in hand, and tell her so long, he’d told himself. But Aimee, for talking things over with the Kendrick brothers, Curach, […]
Bride to Be (part fourteen)
Bride to Be (part fourteen) Not much past the sun’s departure Evenings of late winter grow too chill For outdoor fires and cloaks of fur Bodies huddled close on couches Where murmured stories ebb and the call of hunting wolves From dens at fall of dark in single file Emerge, and […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part forty-seven)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part forty-seven) Giovanna, in an excess of gaiety, her sister thought, wore a gown of black velvet, a black mask, her hair woven high on a Spanish comb, a mantilla of red lace falling to her waist. “I am not in […]
My Blog Week: December 19 to December 25
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Critical Lapses You might have grown up, as I did, with a sense of cultural standards, regarding taste. That is, if it […]
Catastrophe (part seven)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part seven) I have rediscovered an old and very dear friend, a friend of my young years. We go out to dinner, to a place for admiring the scene of apocalypse, which the sky—if you prefer, the […]
The Totem-Maker: The Citadel (part thirteen)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten The Citadel (part thirteen) A cozy session in the chambers of Rithrith stole a day’s time from my mission. I had to dress in my new clothes for them, change these so that Bashtat could try them, offer my sweets to be bitten and laid aside, […]
Hammersmith: More Peaceful Pursuits (chapter thirty-seven)
Hammersmith Chapter Thirty-Seven More Peaceful Pursuits This Mr. Curach, whom Ruby well accepted, being Aimee’s friend, as a perfectly suitable escort, was also…so she found him…a fine and forward-coming fellow. He might be not so much older than herself. Not so very much. He was jaunty of step, and no […]
My Blog Week: December 12 to December 18
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Sensitivity Trap (part four) In the mid-70s, feminists, specifically an offshoot of mainstream feminism, associated with lesbians and the music scene, […]
Catastrophe (part six)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part six) IV. At Fort-de-France Ashes and Terrors Black Fears. White Fears. Blue Fears. Zulima has not lied. She has barely exaggerated. Fort-de-France is sad. The city seems to go forth from […]