Torsade Literary Space The Mirrors (part thirty-five)
The Mirrors (part thirty-five) “And what do you do at the institute?” “Um…the studies…” He said this, her driver, and was silent at the wheel, thinking. “So they collect data, and the submissions, what the researchers send us when we put out a call, all that’s in our files. Say […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part fourteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter One The Peculiar Nature of Logical Science (part fourteen) iv. April Too many mornings of his life had begun with birdsong, chattering at the back of consciousness…just that. He didn’t feel aware yet of a state of […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part thirteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter One The Peculiar Nature of Logical Science (part thirteen) Élucide might well be in Kempf’s office. The sensible thing was to turn, and make back towards the building. “Its qualities,” a voice caught up, “the drug…its actions, are known. That is, if […]
The Resident (part fourteen)
Chapter Two An Anniversary Party (cont’d) (part fourteen) “Is that you, squirming again?” Wissary patted a shoulder. “Sleep, Des.” Desander sat up. “How many of those drinks did you have?” “I suppose you mean to ask, since I bought exactly two, did I drink them both? […]
My Blog Week: February 5 to February 11
All the Latest from Torsade! This week, “Nutshell” on Monday, a poem reissue from The Nutshell Hatches. Then on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, All Bedlam Courses Past, with the spiritualist Ebrach rubbing the medical officer Kempf the […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part twelve)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter One The Peculiar Nature of Logical Science (part twelve) Now, what was the difficulty? They had lied to their subject. The orderlies no doubt had sported him a bit. Ebrach looked at the marker. “And how did Dolphinus Braggert die?” As in […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part eleven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter One The Peculiar Nature of Logical Science (part eleven) “The effects of alcohol, taking an example, introduced into the body of a subject—which might be a frog or a rabbit. But animal experimentation in the matter of a true mental disease is […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part ten)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter One The Peculiar Nature of Logical Science (part ten) “Why don’t I ask Sanderson? The Horaces’.” Miss Gremot suggested Beriah Sanderson hired as digger [Miss Towson recorded, Élucide astonished over her shoulder at the Christian name]. “I will run advertisements. I’ll do […]
Nutshell (poem)
Nutshell You know a secret that would crack the nut Yet it’s no secret When the boredom ends when every floor has been swept clean And the doors The gaping holes Allowing other hands to touch the walls, eyes to stare through glass at passersby The doors Can now be closed […]
My Blog Week: January 29 to February 4
All the Latest from Torsade! This week, All Bedlam Courses Past, on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with Élucide bossing her father’s old employee, and a meeting of the cemetery panel where the hiring of young Everard meets […]