Torsade Literary Space All Bedlam Courses Past (part eighty-eight)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part eighty-eight) They returned to the farm as a family. Harvesting time was the riverland social season…of picnics and regattas, fairs and fireworks, lemonade and watermelon on porches. If Papa wanted his seat, […]
Yoharie (part nine)
Yoharie Kate Hibbler and Mat Busby (part nine) At one time, it had been the Witticombes. And Cathlyn Burris. Then, the awful Trevor; lately, these Yoharies. They were different… “Like every kind of different.” The ring of houses around the cul-de-sac had once (1987) been showcases, when the […]
My Blog Week: January 3 to January 12
All the Latest from Torsade! First, Bedlam, and a visit to the cousins. Then, three episodes of Totem, the choice made to avenge a friend. Another Bedlam, with Gremots entertaining friends and thinking of home. And one poem […]
The Totem-Maker (part twenty-two)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Three I Am the Cause (part twenty-two) The horses stirred and snorted, not caring that their early visitor was strange…dawn, and any bustle of humanity, meant food to them. I found the creature Mumas had ridden, stroked its nose. It stood calm in […]
The Flat Aspect (poem)
The Flat Aspect A man stands on the shore of a great lake He holds a mesh tray sifting through sand he finds bottle caps, small change, the coin of his trade Yet undiscovered in the dregs All these things he thrusts aside Grasping the fiberglass handle of his spade he […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part eighty-seven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part eighty-seven) In the wake of suspected insult, the offer came flat. “Honoré. We are going out to lunch. I hope you and Clotilde may like to come.” Worse, cooking was taking place […]
The Totem-Maker (part twenty-one)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Three I Am the Cause (part twenty-one) I eased to my feet and faced the windows, the unlit alley. “Leave the shutters open.” Madla had spoken over my head, not to trouble me. Her woman returned once, cradling a candle flame. She lifted […]
The Totem-Maker (part twenty)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Three I Am the Cause (part twenty) If in life the Fates were not indifferent to us, and did not record in their Book the start and end of each wayfarer’s journey, merely that; if our sorrows, petty to them, were guided by […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part eighty-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part eighty-six) Their old house on Ohio Avenue, grown so much smaller and narrower, was tenanted by Mrs. Heilmann, who cozily knew things. (“Now I gave your sister one time a china doll. […]
My Blog Week: December 25 to January 2
All the Latest from Torsade! A new Bedlam, Élucide remembering a return to Indianapolis. Then, a fresh episode of Totem, and an incident that brings change. The rest of this period’s items are poems I made into slides, […]