Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: May 22 to May 28
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week Blight Last time, I discussed how denial of abortion rights is the denial of full citizenship, in a democracy where every […]
Eight: Heroic Courage
Heroic Courage What it is is dying that, but… if a moment comes you take them with your mouth shut, both Respectfully, no… Both torture and release No. I don’t think a hero can rescue a hero No, you’re half right, never boast, I’m saying Dying may not be requisite However, […]
A Faint Hint (poem)
A Faint Hint Her view, behind a curtain of cobweb was of teeshirt-wearers tromping, a show of courage talking overloud. The girl of them shrieked. The player of ghost wished girls would not. One customer would dare it, soon Sooner if she wriggled her wig and shawl How lame, the actor […]
The Mirrors (part five)
The Mirrors (part five) For his sake she threw a keen look along the wall, where creeping charley undulated, wider in the shade. Rain began to pelt. “Get you inside, ma’am.” “No, I’m fine…” There, of course. A […]
Catastrophe (part twenty-four)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part twenty-four) “Decrais?” “Just so. Mouttet was only an instrument. Mouttet obeyed. You could well say that he died a hero, a victim of professional duty, if, in professional duty for a governor of Martinique, you hear […]
My Blog Week: May 15 to May 21
All the Latest from Torsade! A Word on the Week If it’s not one thing, it’s another… Have you ever been at the point of just finishing some projects taking up […]
The Mirrors (part four)
The Mirrors (part four) He put his head out. “How you like that angel?” “Mr. Carmine helped me fix it up. You see it there, in the window.” At a half-angle, the wings showed in their contrivance a […]
Tourmaline: Nedforum (conclusion)
Tourmaline Nedforum (part seven) The blue came alive as a moving picture, uniformed journalists furious over their phones, riding moving sidewalks behind bulletproof panels, along the plaza that approached the High Court building. Between the walks a motorcade moved […]