Torsade Literary Space 
The Totem-Maker (part sixty-four)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Seven Winter Alone (part sixty-four) The gods seemed set to storm again, conjuring clouds, the low sun himself cowed, shining pale in colors not his own. First to the yard, to collect all that might be burned. I burst out, […]
Collared (poem)
Collared How did he become the man who barked like a dog? Immersed in the grit and manure and rot of his role Tackled by a brave few hitherto hidden A meeting hastily convened in a garret On hands and knees in mudcaked trousers He shelters like a cur behind […]
The Tunnel (poem)
The Tunnel They two bent like marsh grass under the prow of a canoe that glides through fog of daybreak And here the air filled with a delicate miasma too They had reason leaning towards each other to feel safe emerging from the tunnel They might have stepped down Their rings […]
Right Livelihood (poem)
Right Livelihood You will have to have Means other than paychecks To measure the value of time And when you buy potatoes Put two in the ground And when you owe tax and debt Consider charity And when you think of pleasures Not enjoyed yet Think of parity And when […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred ninety-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part one hundred ninety-four) Saying so, the man took Dancer by the harness. A stranger pitched in, shouting and yanking coattails to clear a path. Their helper muttered, “Get gone out my way, […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred ninety-three)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part one hundred ninety-three) iii. Stakes race “One of Fannie’s speakers, long ago,” she told Weem. “Mr. Collinson visited New Zealand again in ’87. Looking with his own eyes, the terraces […]
My Blog Week: October 20 to October 26
All the Latest from Torsade! A “Resident”, with John Rancilton reluctantly listening to the conversation of his housemates. A Bedlam, Richard building a fire and finding his father’s household shortcomings. A poem from the Jumping Off series. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred ninety-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part one hundred ninety-two) They were at that time, of a burial, where carriages would leave. The family were to stay an hour in a lounge at the Columbia, for acquaintances. Mother and […]
The Totem-Maker (part sixty-three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Seven Winter Alone (part sixty-three) I dug out my doorstone and carried the snow indoors. I dug further, even when I had all the water I and my pony could want. I felt warm from exercise, which was something. I […]
Story: Tourmaline (part one)
Tourmaline (part one) Anton never smelled anything cook in this house. He was not sure of fellow lodgers, that they existed. In this city towers blitzed, shivered themselves to rubble, he had seen it happen. Against a sunset, a seafront sky…as pretty and exciting an entertainment as you could wish… […]