Torsade Literary Space The Totem-Maker (part thirty-four)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Four To Be and to Choose (part thirty-four) “Now, one who is challenged may see fit to decline. When it is recorded that he answers no, equally he has forfeited the right of dispute. What is charged against him stands, though he pays […]
Yoharie (part eleven)
Yoharie Kate Hibbler and Mat Busby (part eleven) He had watched Yoharie’s daughter down the street for a minute. “Pretty girl.” The absentness was the killer. Just that murmured comment like he’d forgotten his wife was beside him, hearing. Kate jostled Jer’s saucer of peanut butter crackers. “Jarmah. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred twelve)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred twelve) The town’s waterfront was all its commerce and most of its residences. Wharfboat, floating pier. Rubble in a mound lit by the wharfboat’s lamps…depot for people who wanted rubble, or jetty-in-progress. Glimmers […]
The Totem-Maker (part thirty-three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Four To Be and to Choose (part thirty-three) The woman stood. Her face was scarred; her arms bore the grooves of knife wounds, accenting sinew and muscle. “I am called Pyrandtha. I am a Knight of Caeluvm, a Challenger. I fight no longer, […]
Fallen Debris (poem)
Fallen Debris Or going up the steps, an appointment wanting shade on a glaring day’s walk a drinking fountain, a toilet a cup of coffee, a quick shop Or sucked into a slamming missile’s void Or cultured into drinking hard Pulling stunts, splashing down head first Pressure insufficient at shallow […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred eleven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred eleven) Yeager’s hand showed flapping, under moonlight, before his white shirt. “You mean they had prospects?” “Prospects? Who’s that?” “Woolsaver. Investors. Someone like Ebrach.” “Ebrach’s got investors? I thought it was private money.” […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred ten)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred ten) On the bottom step sat a boy, that asked, as Richard placed a foot to crowd but not specifically kick the obstacle, “You going out? Where you going?” The landlord’s precaution. “Young […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred nine) “You take some of Ermentrude’s and clear em out. Bring back what you get. Ermentrude! All them dry?” He mimed a flapping paper. “Halt die Klappe, ja.” “Give Everard one.” Ermentrude tapped […]
My Blog Week: March 3 to March 17
All the Latest from Torsade! This is another long MBW, covering six episodes of Bedlam, taking Richard through the end of section one, chapter four (“I never saw his face”; Counterfeits), and from his arrest and night in […]
The Totem-Maker (part thirty-two)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Four To Be and to Choose (part thirty-two) “If the master sends his slave to injure bodily an enemy, the master is at fault, but the slave does not escape the law. Yet let us propose that the enemy meets the slave and […]