Torsade Literary Space 
My Blog Week: December 8 to December 14
All the Latest from Torsade! Three episodes of Bedlam, Richard having two visitors, and his vigil coming to an end. A Totem, with a new post assigned and a fate decreed for Jute. […]
Story: A Friend (part two)
A Friend (part two) Carefully, carefully, Mrs. Leonhardt wiggled the pulling end…the claw, was it? Back when she nailed it up, she propped the mirror on a stool. Anton better help. Better do the whole thing, now he was in the house. But god, he took forever to explain […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred twenty-five)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred twenty-five) And then, contrary to your tendency… I went back the other way, taking the near stairs after all, because they would not allow me to go forward. They. This […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred twenty-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred twenty-four) No, truly, he had not spoken to anyone. He had probably passed the odd crewman, who each and all, bless them, seemed in the habit of mumbling sir, and […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred twenty-three)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred twenty-three) Correct. You look at me as though you hope for more. Shall I surmise you‘d have me know the hour and minute I rose from the table? I do […]
The Totem-Maker (part seventy-seven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Use for Use (part seventy-seven) I slept dressed, no longer feeling so unlikely to be disturbed that I didn’t half expect it. I sat, and reached for the poker to stir the fire’s embers. To stand would be yielding. […]
Right Concentration (poem)
Right Concentration Is the world all rotation and roundness Sunflower and sun Hands lacking the callouses that grow when work so often done, so mindless Plays notes through windings of leathered furrows as a songwriter without paper at hand hums a tune again and again but forgets, even so, how […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred twenty-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred twenty-two) The tour began with a refreshing paddle along forested shores. Passengers bound for Muskegon could treat the Chief as a ferry and ride without berths. Passengers boarding at Muskegon […]
Story: A Friend (part one)
A Friend (part one) Mrs. Leonhardt had a plan for the silver. Her mother’s, her wedding and her bought silver, her tea and coffee sets, her vanity sets, the trays, caddies, candlesticks, the odd cutlery—a cheese knife being something, or an olive fork. A teaspoon was not. For a […]
Story: Palma (conclusion)
Palma (part six) “Don’t read it all.” In a soft voice, unreflective of Anton’s capitals, Mary began. Now you have shown you can be faithful I had wished to count myself a human being In this conceit perhaps I am mistaken I may be the drop of […]