Torsade Literary Space The Totem-Maker (part forty-four)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part forty-four) Wosogo had pointed me to a master of intendance, often seen among us at the rear. His wagons were my pony’s pace-setters. Farthest back, keeping clear of the wagoneers’ whips, walked a camp of unknowns. From […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred thirty-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred thirty-four) Underpinning all this inventory, of a perfectly fine household none had cause to put themselves above, was the hint of Ranilde’s being over-petted at home. Under her mother-in-law’s roof, she would […]
Raisin and Treey (poem)
Raisin and Treey Raisin, small, brown, round, round-eared, nostrils flared, nose snouty, body furrowed, thick-furred, fur cottony, breeze-catching, short-legged, legs bowing from her sides like levers Her gait levers her up and down Treey is a bit of a spider; still, in a piney way, plantish Treey’s hue is black, white-dotted […]
Yoharie (part fourteen)
Yoharie Jeremiah (part fourteen) That kid, Valentine. Not just the strip razored around the back of his head, new yesterday…like chalky blue wasn’t hairdo enough. This kid worked, Hibbler knew from tracking him, but hung around the neighborhood all day, too, when Hibbler himself had to be at […]
The Totem-Maker (part forty-three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part forty-three) I suffered, not knowing what had befallen me…but I traveled among indifferent companions. They offered food I didn’t want; they offered drink I did. Yes or no, I was not rewarded, not rebuked or coaxed. When […]
The Proof (poem)
The Proof News for you, today Someone whose chance to tell was snatched away Flags the wheel-spinner to lay a finger on Picking you, passing vessel, because the germ of lost intelligence Chain chain chains from its touch of polymer A city in time-lapse, to grow on a flick of ash […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred thirty-three)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred thirty-three) The hospital’s first and second halves, journeying River Road, had gouged the Macadam; the Macadam was new, laid ’80 for the railroad work. Some raking was done, real fixes waited May, […]
My Blog Week: May 18 to May 24
All the Latest from Torsade! A Totem, with combat imminent, if not to the Prince, serious; a poem, “The Caretaker”, on moral decay, and a Bedlam, with Élucide’s father’s speech quelling an enemy’s campaign. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred thirty-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred thirty-two) Rowan in the flesh was mottled…the parts that showed, complexion and wire-haired backs of hands. His eyes were prominent, his eartops tufted, the tufts threading along to his chin. He slued […]
The Totem-Maker (part forty-two)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part forty-two) Chapter Six A First Road No one that day had further use for me. Although more certain with each step, that at Cime’s house I would be barred, I returned. Stol and Larsa were not […]