Torsade Literary Space Petal and Perfume (poem)
Petal and Perfume At their tables, they waited She had made them see, by knotted strings That flared white, and danced, and left their Interweavings on the eye’s lens Against the contrast of brown limbs A bower of surpassing craft Decked in petal and perfume All that was prelude The trespasser […]
Catastrophe (part thirty-two)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part thirty-two) Monday, 5th. This morning, flat calm, detonations rare. The top of the mountain is covered in a clear, blue cloud. The neighboring houses appear all white. We hear noises like lava that boils and overflows. […]
The Mirrors (part fifteen)
The Mirrors (part fifteen) vii. The day came up with a busy humidity in the air, a striated purple framing a sun ugly with rosiness. Thunder, Charmante thought. It was early in the season for a hurricane, but she could believe in one looming, with a sky like […]
Yoharie: Breaking Up Together (part four)
Yoharie Breaking Up Together (part four) Savannah recalled church a holiday spoiler, a weird intervention between new toys and turkey, half exciting for its costume of white tights, Mary Janes, and what Grandma called a “dressy dress”; more than half excruciating. Opening their big boxes, to learn the bigness […]
My Blog Week: August 28 to September 3
All the Latest from Torsade! On Monday, a new Totem-Maker, with the character’s antiwar movement drawing answer from the zhatabe. Tuesday, a poem reissue from Rattus, “Lionera Skimgold”, a take on the writer of fiction’s attempt […]
A Chatterbug’s Memoires
A Chatterbug’s Memoires Before self-anointing try a means test Have conference with the ash tree’s railing leaves The dying fighter not yet wholly girdled A corpse of heartwood chip by chip stripped clean Bad tidings brought by an agent of the bourse Make every act of treason underpay Chapters of a […]