Torsade Literary Space 
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred thirty-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred thirty-six) “None of that,” Élucide said, “means anything.” “Only, that the younger members of the household were of one generation, and Mrs. Demrose of another. The early bedtimes meant hours, […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred thirty-five)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred thirty-five) “…and did, I find it safe to say, pick up the brochures from a hotel, and introduce them to his wife. The sight of them may well have inspired […]
Yoharie (part twenty-two)
Yoharie Totem-World (part twenty-two) “Things have got polarized, don’t you think? I mean, say the next Spiderman should be a woman, you’d get death threats. Last time they actually got the project started, there was boycott talk right off. Neverers were a thing by then.” “But if she […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred thirty-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred thirty-four) Demrose hadn’t a notion how or when the brochures had arrived. His wife had them. In her hand? Beside her plate? Among her correspondence? In her rooms, where I […]
The Resident (part twenty-nine)
Chapter Four An Odd Man Out (part twenty-nine) “I did agree, I know. I’m not a hugely disciplined person. And I have John.” Their phone was on the kitchen wall. He was in the shower, using a credit card, reconstituting a bar of soap with each […]
Guts (poem)
Guts Gutted, crushed, broken, dead Commenters are Dead at the bloated cow’s recurring news Referenced in times its demise seemed only augured News of a weight too light to break News burst upon you, in a sidling way, demanding Almost all are cause-of-death-revealed all the click-throughs warning you that clogs gnashed […]
Story: A Friend (part four)
A Friend (part four) “He hasn’t changed so much, has he?” She looked again, from the photo to Anton in his chair. “And this is Anton with his grandmother.” “No. That’s the older boy.” Seconds ticked by. “A shame,” Herward said. That was a way of putting it. A […]
The Totem-Maker (part seventy-nine)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part seventy-nine) On that ninth day when the peddler was to leave me, though I did not know it, Moth, after a rap at my door, walked in. “Is it you?” I said. “Totem-Maker. I was […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred thirty-three)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred thirty-three) These facts included Miss Buckley’s movements altogether, excepting the Gorman episode. “But Gorman wouldn’t,” Élucide said, “have been a confederate.” “No, they’d not have risked a third party. Never […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred thirty-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred thirty-two) “The greasy material could not have been trodden to invisibility, for all the comings and goings. Likewise the foot would bear its carpet fluff. But the conspirators were in […]
