Torsade Literary Space 
Story: Sympathy for the Torturer (part three)
Sympathy for the Torturer (part three) The guard had pantomimed at Anton. “That’s right. Take those off…you get me? You can’t hide your face indoors.” He saw his dark glasses crushed in a pocket. Tossed in a bin marked Lost and Found. “Prove those are yours.” He would have […]
The Totem-Maker (part eighty-six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part eighty-six) A herder of cattle there was, who lived far from the royal seat, from the city of wealth. He was free, his life was peaceful, and his name was Alchas. One day as he […]
The Totem-Maker (part eighty-five)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part eighty-five) I wanted that loneliness I hadn’t yet found; I wanted to escape a hailing exchange. Hospitality required that strangers keep the road together, until all had been said of who, where, and what. I […]
Are You Haunted (part twenty-nine)
Are You Haunted (part twenty-nine) “But people would assume Dennis, wouldn’t they…? Has rights, like you said.” “Yes, of course. And that’s all there is to it.” After a pause too long, Isobel finished without sarcasm, “The Drybrooks had ten years of storytelling by the time […]