Torsade Literary Space Catastrophe (part forty-three)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part forty-three) “The differences in burns are explained by the explosive action of fire on the muscles. The most powerful are contracted, which puts the limbs in flexion; the weakest are by force extended; the most exposed […]
The Mirrors (part thirty-eight)
The Mirrors (part thirty-eight) She sat, though itching to tidy, equally to call after Carmine, making the garden door her own vigil…both entries covered. “Maybe it doesn’t matter. Maybe somehow it’s over. But this word comes from Polly.” As she told him, hushed, she felt the island’s hum—with them, in […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part twenty-nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part twenty-nine) “I suppose, if you like to use the room, it might not be, could we say…on Wednesday nights, or Sundays after lunch…” He’d tried that much. His unscheduled retreats to the balcony had taught […]
My Blog Week: March 19 to March 25
All the Latest from Torsade! On Monday, a poem reissue, from Uncollected, “Four-leaf Clover”. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday, All Bedlam Courses Past, with Gilbert discovering the insider’s benefit his translator has arranged. Images on my posts […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part twenty-eight)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part twenty-eight) “They are on the stage, so I discount whatever name Monsieur gives…but it is for today, Allen. She is Madame.” “Christ Jiminy!” Allen barked. “Get on, mister, or don’t! Beau! Take up!” Gilbert offered […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part twenty-seven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part twenty-seven) Assisted by the lapel, Gilbert stumbled from his seat, sounding syllables. He shook his head, confident enough. The cabby smacked a palm. The costly Lecomte was discovered in conversation with a woman…her head the […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part twenty-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part twenty-six) Gilbert had counted out twenty dollars in coin, surely a mad sum, but his hope for Lecomte (in truth, for Honoré’s sake), was that he make his way north, the treasured protégé of someone… […]
My Blog Week: March 12 to March 18
All the Latest from Torsade! On Monday, All Bedlam Courses Past, Madame Sartain visiting her embassy. On Tuesday, a new episode of “The Enemy”, with Palma and Sulya mooting scenarios for Jocelyn’s demise. Friday, a poem reissue, “Clarify […]
Four-leaf clover (poem)
Four-leaf clover When she’s dead they’ll clothe her False to claim they’d known her In a room of duty saving hours of light Mothballs give a church scent Skirt-clad hips span bench lengths She slips indoors alive Why is it not yet over? Holdouts dare suppose her Likelier than they […]
Catastrophe (part forty-two)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part forty-two) Warning! Today’s Catastrophe contains a graphic photo that may disturb some readers. XXYII Interview with Doctor Lherminier The wounded and their care. Their burns. The state […]