Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: August 20 to August 26
All the Latest from Torsade! On Monday, All Bedlam Courses Past, a Crownhaven party underway. Thursday, Catastrophe, a discussion of volcanic weather. Friday, The Totem-Maker, entry gained into the house of Lord Sente. Saturday, The Mirrors, with Charmante […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy) Verbena—Élucide perked up a little, thinking of it—was the only one to need persuading. Old Richard didn’t let his wife go places alone. As a favor, she would say. Please, truly, […]
My Blog Week: August 13 to August 19
All the Latest from Torsade! On Tuesday, All Bedlam Courses Past, and the beginning of a new section, with Élucide trying to finish what she started. Thursday and Sunday, episodes of Catastrophe, on the causes of death as […]
The Mirrors (part fifty-three)
The Mirrors (part fifty-three) And so for the sake of that wisdom, that had to be witnessed and passed on, Charmante’s eyes had seen the state of her father’s mortgaged house. There would be no money for the fixing up. Her mother’s cancer came, after the check for […]
The Totem-Maker (part twelve)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Two Jealousy (part twelve) If Sente often was read his fortune, he would doubt me, and I would need at once to think of a role for Lom. But we passed unspeaking down a dark and cool hall, the secret pomegranate nature of Sente’s […]
Catastrophe (part forty-eight)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part forty-eight) M. Le Bris, commander of the Suchet, coordinated observations taken on naval ships in the waters of Martinique, and collated them in his report to the Naval Minister, sent by the same mail steamer that […]
My Blog Week: August 6 to August 12
All the Latest from Torsade! Four episodes this week of All Bedlam Courses Past, bringing Honoré’s resignation to his losses, and Clotilde’s shy search for answers, to this chapter section’s conclusion. My Blog […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part sixty-nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part sixty-nine) “But to be clear, sir, you are staying with us through tomorrow? If we have Fannie, Miss Nachfolger…” Ebrach, coming down the hallway, left off for Élucide’s pad and pencil. “And […]
Catastrophe (part forty-seven)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part forty-seven) Thus at the limit of the volcano’s action, people died of asphyxiation, not burns. An instantaneous death, as with all who were found mutilated, crushed, burned, carbonized, at the heart of this choking, explosive action. […]
The Totem-Maker (part eleven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Two Jealousy (part eleven) Lord Sente called through the window. His servants were at the rail, eyes on my mysteries, ears unhearing. Again, I turned fish… And so the gods must demand it. And here was eda, the diminutive. Lom gave a sigh. He […]