Torsade Literary Space Marjorie Bowen: The Sword Decides! (part fifty-three)
Marjorie Bowen The Sword Decides! (part fifty-three) The clank of gear, and echoes from the passage of swift-moving feet, interrupted, as Mastracchio was offering to Ludovic a Paolo condemned for murder… “He is an instigator of murder. No matter his excuses, his hands are bloody as […]
Catastrophe (part nineteen)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part nineteen) Around nine in the morning, during a lightening of the clouds, M. Marie-Sainte could distinguish Mt. Pelée shrunken by a clear three hundred meters, the crest sheared off, the flanks widely cracked. Surrounded by the […]
Eight: King’s Knight (poem)
King’s Knight A yellow shirt. A sardine sandwich. King asks, that any good…stinky little fish, with the bones? Have a bite. There’s a couple things wrong with that idea. Y. Murray nods. He exhales the whole of his lunch, mustard, fish, rye, onion rings By the way, King says, you dress […]
My Blog Week: March 20 to March 26
All the Latest from Torsade! On Monday, Catastrophe, some stories of crew members caught aboard ship. On Tuesday, “BeeZeep”, a poem reissue from Rattus. On Wednesday, another reissue, “Lie of a Lucky Meeting”. Thursday and Saturday, two […]
The Hold (part one)
Short Story The Hold (part one) A few of the people you had no respect for, lately had gone changeling, like cooptees in a doddering cult. This was funny, laughable funny, and for the comedians on TV […]
Lie of a Lucky Meeting
lie of a lucky meeting when the banqueters were invited to the theatre the room reminiscent in décor wallboard smoked-white studded each six feet with phone jacks cardboard curtains stiff-flocked as a Christmas box of Scotch, Season’s Greetings, a shade called ruby blush threading carpet humped in heavy traffic spots commercial […]
BeeZeep (poem)
BeeZeep What about that golden arm Give it back, will you give it back It would have been some other wife he’d rooked An after-image looking spectral, beckoning through glass Smashing sea waves shooting foam across the rocks spliced-in footage quick cuts from the door and back Saying not why did you […]
Catastrophe (part eighteen)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part eighteen) XIII. The Ships’ Crews in the Harbor The Roddam; the Gabrielle; the Roraima The nightmare of the sailors The harbor of Saint-Pierre, as always in this era of great […]
My Blog Week: March 13 to March 19
All the Latest from Torsade! On Monday, Catastrophe, further reactions in Fort-de-France. On Tuesday, The Sword Decides!, Ludovic receiving hoped-for news in greater than hoped for detail. Thursday, part three of “The Resident”, with Des and Wiss […]