Torsade Literary Space The Totem-Maker (part forty-five)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part forty-five) At my first home I’d slept in profound silence. Dreams at the mountain’s foot did not meander from sound to sound, weave stories from caterwauling, birdsong, grunts and morning footsteps. I dreamt of blackened earth, shapes […]
My Blog Week: June 8 to June 14
All the Latest from Torsade! Two Bedlams, with a featured speaker, two unexpected sets of visitors, and small conflicts brewing. My Blog Week: June 8 to June 14 All Bedlam Courses […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred thirty-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred thirty-six) Monday last, she had been surprised in town by William Thacker, jogging alongside Dancer. Through a dull spring, larded (for its reasons) with muddy weather and long waits, coming on to […]
Considering Joe Biden
Considering Joe Biden Joe Biden presents as having symptoms of a degenerative neurological condition, whether or not his doctors have named it, and whether or not that name is Parkinson’s. His symptoms are visible to the public; also audible to the public when he speaks. His decline has seemed steeper over […]
Translation: Victor Hugo, “Demain, dès l’aube” 1856
Tomorrow at Sunrise Tomorrow at sunrise, at the hour the fields lighten I will set off. I know you wait, you see I will go by the forest, I will go by the mountain For the time is past, I cannot keep away I will walk with my […]
Queen’s Rook (poem)
Queen’s Rook Dear fortune cookie Dear oraclooky Dear vestal sister Dear rad transistor Dear tarot reader Dear shallow feeder Dear mass persuader Dear draft evader Dear Lilibella Trutha tella Tell this girl who killed her fella What to do now What to do I mean it, Mother May, Aunt Mary Jane, […]
The Tambinder Engine (part thirteen)
The Tambinder Engine A McAlley Story (part thirteen) She drove Mick to the airport. In a flood of nervous words. “I have a horse. I have my babies, Jyff and Bobbo. I can’t leave the country, they don’t let you nab a quick passport at the desk, while you’re paying […]
My Blog Week: June 1 to June 7
All the Latest from Torsade! Three Bedlams, with W. A. Gremot finishing his pointed speech; then a new chapter segment, the meeting of the Spiritualist League, the speaker, and the arrival of members and guests. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred thirty-five)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred thirty-five) She was helping to recast Well-Being in the image of Immortia, the New England Community of Seekers quarterly. She was reviewing, for another task, the many books mailed to Ebrach by […]
My Blog Week: May 25 to May 31
All the Latest from Torsade! Here’s a hot-off-the-presses cartoon, to go with some older posts from May. And a short week of material altogether. One episode of Totem, giving the outcome of the challenge against Mumas. Then a […]