Torsade Literary Space Hammersmith: Tunneling Through (chapter thirty-six)
Hammersmith Thirty-Six Tunneling Through They edged past the figures of Elton Bott and Ben Lemuel. “Is that Vic?” came a voice. “What’s going on out there, Vic? Whose side are you on?” Vic considered the light. The open door, he deemed, shined sufficient. Denying himself ran the risk of looking […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part forty-six)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part forty-six) Carlo wore his cap sewn with locks of horsehair, to hang in learned silver, part-obscuring the black. He wore a long robe of satin, painted with its zodiacal designs… He was bothered that the robe looked cheap. But his […]
Take Your Place (poem)
Take Your Place A man believes he is Christ He searches job hunt danglings and wonders Why no one advertises for a savior He should begin by restoring life If metaphor would arrive to be interrogated If walking over bridges every day might tempt the devil to send a faltering heart […]
My Blog Week: December 5 to December 11
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week The Sensitivity Trap (part three) How many of the PC introductions from the 2016 campaign season onwards, came as reaction, and how […]
Catastrophe (part five)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part five) II. Before the Volcano (On the way to Saint-Pierre, at sunset) The land! It is always there at the end of a voyage, an impatience, a quivering, when we […]
Condition of the South at the Close of the War (conclusion)
We continue with General James Harrison Wilson‘s accounting to the U.S. government, at the close of the Civil War, of the difficulties in bringing the south to reconciliation, both with its nation, and its newly expanded free population. (Blacks were given citizenship under the 14th amendment, ratified 1868.) Again, the […]
Condition of the South at the Close of the War (part four)
We continue with General James Harrison Wilson‘s accounting to the U.S. government, at the close of the Civil War, of the difficulties in bringing the south to reconciliation, both with its nation, and its newly expanded free population. (Blacks were given citizenship under the 14th amendment, ratified 1868.) Again, the […]
Condition of the South at the Close of the War (part three)
We continue with General James Harrison Wilson‘s accounting to the U.S. government, at the close of the Civil War, of the difficulties in bringing the south to reconciliation, both with its nation, and its newly expanded free population. (Blacks were given citizenship under the 14th amendment, ratified 1868.) Again, the […]
Condition of the South at the Close of the War (part two)
We continue with General James Harrison Wilson‘s accounting to the U.S. government, at the close of the Civil War, of the difficulties in bringing the south to reconciliation, both with its nation, and its newly expanded free population. (Blacks were given citizenship under the 14th amendment, ratified 1868.) Again, the […]