Torsade Literary Space All Bedlam Courses Past (part thirty-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part thirty-two) “Well, there’s a nuisance for you. He promises to tell and doesn’t. Seems to misapprehend the nature of affairs altogether, my poor old cousin. And your cousin can’t tell you any of it.” “You […]
The Mirrors (part forty)
The Mirrors (part forty) Godfrey fidgets and sweats. Leonce has an idea. He might count it a holy vision. “God. Old man’s in there…” Godfrey looks bloodshot at Leonce. “Nobody’d ever know it, in the morning when the fires burn down, and they start clearing out the rubble, how someone […]
The Resident (part fifteen)
Chapter Three Tithonians (part fifteen) “Here. I’ve got plenty. I can go full body if I have to…” Debra unfurled mosquito netting. “Snug up, Wiss. I know you’re gay.” “Am I?” Des would know, keeping track as he did. The thought was saddening. But Wissary […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part thirty-one)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part thirty-one) Madame Sartain had written, replying to Clotilde, as voiced by Élucide—her letter arriving that September 5th: We see how it is in the divine plan, that all things are laid in place before […]
My Blog Week: April 2 to April 8
All the Latest from Torsade! On Tuesday, The Mirrors, with Leonce and Godfrey planning a theft. Wednesday and Thursday, poems, from Uncollected and Rattus. Friday, All Bedlam Courses Past, with the end of Gilbert’s adventure, and the start […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part thirty)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part thirty) Gilbert watched the now heavily-patrolled yard recede. In this enterprise had been something of dash, that he’d missed out on. He could not regret what he had got…a story, to be sure…and did not […]
Refuge of Scoundrels (poem)
Refuge of Scoundrels I am fidelity locked in the shell Of a barnacle, no bounding sea shall Pry me from the pier The pier itself then topple in the tempest And there, still for the hell of me, until the bout’s end bell I clamp on like a manacle, like a […]
What Would I Do (poem)
What Would I Do I, what would I You’ve come to such a jaded heart Asking participation Modern in your diction saying Join the conversation You talk of people in their shells But watch them leave the trenches Watch them start and dart the salvo Find they’ve grown the legs of […]
The Mirrors (part thirty-nine)
The Mirrors (part thirty-nine) I am trying to cooperate. It’s the shortest way, I believe. We are given burdens in life to bear; at times we shoulder injustices. Why should a thing like this fall from the sky on anyone? I think of you Carrie, and our baby girl, and […]
My Blog Week: March 26 to April 1
All the Latest from Torsade! On Wednesday, All Bedlam Courses Past, with a journalistic escapade. On Friday, The Mirrors, Charmante and William, joined by Veronica, confronting the possessed, then entering the Mirror world. On Friday, too, Catastrophe, with […]