Torsade Literary Space All Bedlam Courses Past (part ninety-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part ninety-six) “What if,” she asked. “Oh, what if?” “What if I could learn to drive?” “Learn to drive! Luce, are you changing the subject? Why does it need to be I can’t […]
The Totem-Maker (part twenty-eight)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Three I Am the Cause (part twenty-eight) I knew what his confession would be. Mumas was an oddly uncalculating man. Yes, with the pertinacity of a mole paddling at her blind tunnel, he could make trouble for others. He would tell himself this […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part ninety-five)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part ninety-five) “What,” she asked her mother, “was Lisette’s maiden name?” Élucide had found a Lizette in the Armour Bible, spelt that way (which for having decided it wasn’t, seemed not right), but […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part ninety-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part ninety-four) If Kentucky’s fair Elizabethtown has any particular tie to the city of Nashville, I must leave it to the old-timers to inform me. For here, my friends, you have the reporter’s […]
My Blog Week: February 7 to February 10
All the Latest from Torsade! Actually, I’ve put up only a couple of new posts this week, but I did get a cartoon finished, so I’m sharing that. Plus, it’s the right day for an MBW, Sunday. Everything […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part ninety-three)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part ninety-three) A morning, four years past that time, bloomed in its sly way—the indigo river growing muddy, the sky chalky. Woodsmoke from a basement stovepipe curled to the porch; and Élucide, having […]
My Blog Week: January 30 to February 6
All the Latest from Torsade! On Wednesday the 31st, an episode of Yoharie, with Kate and Mat drawing conclusions about the Yoharies. On Friday the 2nd, Bedlam, with a day of Élucide’s present dawning, and an end to […]
The Totem-Maker (part twenty-seven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Three I Am the Cause (part twenty-seven) “I have thought,” I said, “that I cannot wash my hands of Lom. He befriended me. Could our gods have devised this, that he do a good and kind thing…a very great thing, my lord, for […]
The Totem-Maker (part twenty-six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Three I Am the Cause (part twenty-six) He addressed Lord Ulfas, with a northern show of baffled curiosity. “I cannot keep this prisoner for myself?” “In justice…” the governor began. “You have some scheme for the enrichment of your minor houses? Material to […]