Torsade Literary Space Could It Be: Eighth Allied Forces
The Folly Allied Forces Could It Be Humanity. Falco’s unshockable eyes fall half-lidded at sight of a face …or (correct usage) situation of a face Dusted verdigris, a skinning of mould on its rot its sockets aviator’s goggles And a scalp’s blond wisps aflutter with […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part fifty)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part fifty) Ludovic had laid his sword across the table, hilt at his right hand. Montferrat on his side had done the same. A translator stood ready, a priest in service to Cardinal Chalus. Chalus on the order of Clement had […]
Catastrophe (part thirteen)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part thirteen) Those Who Have Seen VIII. Some Interviews How was the destruction at Saint-Pierre accomplished? By what force were they thrown to earth, set afire, these ruins through which, in […]
My Blog Week: January 30 to February 5
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Critical Lapses (part six) Personal prejudices carry no authority, even if one could be shared “kindly”; even if piping up with an […]
The Totem-Maker: A Mother or a Father (part two)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Eleven A Mother or a Father (part two) I gauged the zhatabe’s hold on the town by the ease of strangers speaking to me. I did not awe them, but I could see that an uncloistered sage among them daunted. They were a courteous people, and would, […]
My Blog Week: January 23 to January 29
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week A Word on Wordle In this belated edition, I want to do a short, fun bit, on the trending puzzle game Wordle. […]
Catastrophe (part twelve)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (twelve) To raise a monument to the great emancipator, following I don’t know what baroque idea, they could not find a better place than the foyer of the theater. The philosopher’s image was to preside over the […]
Bride to Be (part fifteen)
Bride to Be (part fifteen) And the boy was Aldebert. But he was not— Wildulfa knew it, thinking, wrapped in pelts So near freezing, she felt sleep were a gift the goddess might in jealousy Mete to a soul keeping vigil more constant than her acolyte’s, squandering the night’s watches without […]
Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part forty-nine)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part forty-nine) Chapter Thirteen The Incursion November 1347 The first disposition had been the division of thirty thousand armed men, most of them foot soldiers, into practical units. The fighting front of any […]