Torsade Literary Space The Totem-Maker (part two)
The Totem-Maker The Little I Can Tell (part two) Soon after came scouring floods that islanded our village, once situated on a rise, now a barren plain. Deprivation followed, and I was protected from sacrifice, for being born to a woman with no means […]
My Blog Week: May 7 to May 13
All the Latest from Torsade! No cartoon this week, since I couldn’t find enough drawing time. But here are three AI images, “High Rises Made from Cottages”. Is AI illustration ethical? Obviously, it’s light years ahead of clipart. If you blog, and […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part forty-one)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part forty-one) “I’ll tell you what, Aylucide, I named Myra after Moult’s poor sister. Stuck her little finger with the garden shears out in the rose bed one morning…” Mrs. Buckley’s pace hitched to a trot. […]
Yoharie (part one)
Yoharie Hibbler, Awake (part one) The thing that had made him hate camping. Rocks were falling all this time, but the clip that played across the screen of Hibbler’s closed eyes was soundless. It was almost a lie…if there had not been so much rooted pain, telling him […]
The Totem-Maker (part one)
The Totem-Maker Chapter One: The Little I Can Tell (part one) I would not have asked to be born under a portent. The day of my arrival on earth began, at daybreak, with a fearsome one. I knew the story so well, I could for years picture the […]
The Mirrors (part forty-three)
The Mirrors (part forty-three) When he stands, prize in his fist, he can’t see Harold. There is no street to see him on. Rolling clouds surround the viewer, smoke to stifle and choke. You know yourself a witness from a strange vantage, no sense alive in you but sight. One […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part forty)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part forty) iii Alarica A college friend of her mother, visiting once…emphasize once… Élucide’s father, making jokes about women and gossip, had shut himself in his library. The friend, taking this treatment in […]
My Blog Week: April 30 to May 6
All the Latest from Torsade! This MBW covers two weeks, due to springtime busyness. On Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, I posted the story of Thacker’s errand in Nashville, four episodes of Bedlam. On Saturday, a new episode […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part thirty-nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part thirty-nine) But no, he would not. He set a waiter at Buckley’s club to come running whenever Buckley arrived at the oyster bar. Alerted, he accosted Buckley and demanded a meeting. Buckley, as before cronies […]