Torsade Literary Space All Bedlam Courses Past (part fifty)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part fifty) Alongside the sober town coats and public-spirited gadflying, sat that Cookesville-wide impression of Rowan—of education, gentility, money. Restraint. The cold kind, maybe, a background-lurker’s, pocketing dropped pennies from the gutter. Rowan had […]
Catastrophe (part forty-four)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (forty-four) On the 18th, an event more powerful, with detonations at the mountain’s summit, and the village ground quaking. They collected ash and sent this to Fort-de-France, where it was analyzed by M. Mirville. They warned the […]
Beware of Fours (poem)
Beware of Fours Magic threes no more, beware of fours A fear inducer without weight, absenting light, a shadow A sense of shadow One morning the character walks in the rain The after-rain, water in yellowing Beds of flowers beaded And closing skies of short fall days And knows the leaves […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part forty-nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part forty-nine) Had the planets been as swift as Comets In proportion to their Distances from the Sun … They would not move in concentric Orbs But in such eccentric ones as the Comets move in […]
My Blog Week: June 18 to June 24
All the Latest from Torsade! On Tuesday and Sunday, All Bedlam Courses Past, with Mme Sartain explaining the activities of strangers, and Regina playing hostess to the end. Wednesday, The Mirrors, the channel to the spirit world broken. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part forty-eight)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part forty-eight) “Cartesia?” “Facer, isn’t it?” Regina signaled with her fan, abrupt under their whispering chins. “That hotel, Luce. That’s what they’ve done to her.” They gazed. Theban pillars of the Cloughman dynasty framed a broad […]
The Totem-Maker (part six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Two Jealousy (part six) My predictions earned me status in the Decima household. As a prodigy; or if not that, a jester. Divorced now from any shadow of belief, I shaded my words, colored each hope with wider and happier prospects. I […]
The Mirrors (part forty-nine)
The Mirrors (part forty-nine) xix. A physical touch. But this was poignant, if anything. If only her fingers mashed against Nat’s could communicate her friendship towards him, that she loved him, and fought him for his own salvation. She saw the circle broken to […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part forty-seven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Two Avarice Creeping On (part forty-seven) Fair enough. But, Élucide thought as well, her poor Sartains were within their rights feeling peevish. No, Madame (who was never ill, never) had been enjoying a concert, kindly insisted on by M. Montrose; […]
My Blog Week: June 11 to June 17
All the Latest from Torsade! On Tuesday and Thursday, All Bedlam Courses Past, with Honoré’s son recounting The Werewolf of Darcy Street’s plot points; Élucide taken to task for an excess of entertainments. Wednesday, The Mirrors, and the […]