Torsade Literary Space Yoharie (part eighteen)
Yoharie Stalking (part eighteen) She sipped, and waited for Trevor to stop chewing. “What are you proposing?” “You want half a cheeseburger…?” “Oh, no. Maybe a bite.” Adapting, she bit, and traded the cheeseburger for a napkin. “My proposal… Take the rest.” He scooted the fries. “I have […]
Right Understanding (poem)
Right Understanding Listen, hearing What’s attached to your head, make advance patrols, trailblazers Of surrounding space Hair networks your scalp not for nothing, let the air inform you Whether something’s in it Let your ears tell how much at-battle the noise is Let the holes of your piercings convey as wind […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred forty-nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred forty-nine) Pearletta was beating rugs, a chore to keep busy during the vigil…a death vigil not quite… A waiting, to hurry Samuel back to Clarks, if he wandered home and wanted to […]
The Totem-Maker (part forty-nine)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part forty-nine) “My hegnedre carried this, and was told by a woman there, Larsa, do you know her…? Yes. That Lom named you to have what was his at death. We learned, so, that he was dead. In […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred forty-eight)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred forty-eight) “However. Two deaths from typhoid. Typhoid is a matter for the county health officer, and that is what I will tell Dr. Magnusson. He is required to make his report to […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred forty-seven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred forty-seven) ii. Tend your business It was a great deliverance, Mangin himself finding them. Lawrence thought so in a spirit hopefully devout. He allowed God might count him failed. He […]
Opportunity (poem)
Opportunity Some new epoch had arrived It arrived And came in secret In like a brined seed ensconced A sour pickle plastered to the hamburger bun That crows find unpalatable Opportunity as a figure of allegory Your design challenge is to dress her She wears the helmet of a Keystone Kop […]
The Totem-Maker (part forty-eight)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part forty-eight) A thousand trials… And would Raven not be turned many times, so surely once, in the First Hour of the Sun? I had twenty-four tiles, I drew twelve for this game. Raven was destined to come […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred forty-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred forty-six) Samuel was in the wagon with Gippy, hunkered. Lidah appeared, crowding with her basket Mrs. McClurkin, who brushed skirts and held the door wider, a meaning-laden mop in hand. A remark […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (one hundred forty-five)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred forty-five) Dr. Mangin rode his own horse, following Clark. Lawrence, larded with cornbread and sausage, apple pie and cheese, trotted home on foot, seeing the farmer veer and the doctor come on. […]