Torsade Literary Space 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. […]
My Blog Week: June 29 to July 5
All the Latest from Torsade! A Bedlam, with Élucide meeting in-laws on the road. A Totem, with thoughts on Mumas’s empty afterlife. A Yoharie, with Dawn telling Giarma an early job story. A “Resident”, with John remembering Claudine. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred forty-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred forty-four) The words were slurred, somnolent. Her hand made motions, as opening a door, and her chin came to her chest. Both hands gripped as though she hauled a heavy pan. “Never […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred forty-three)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred forty-three) All the ride back, blood tonic and bile pills in his pockets, Samuel quiet on a gumdrop, Lawrence chewed over Miss Gremot’s news. He could detect in himself…toyed with, let play […]
The Totem-Maker (part forty-seven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part forty-seven) She would not answer. Even-voiced and eyes on my work, I said: “I do not own a suirmat. I would need to have one spared, by one of the general’s retainers, perhaps. Else I may enter […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred forty-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred forty-two) “Josh you to an early grave.” Mumbling to himself, Samuel by the collar, Lawrence stepped into Keffer’s drugstore… To learn that everyone was modern these days. Keffer now had a foyer, […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred forty-one)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred forty-one) She was perched on her gig, the fine black horse Dancer showing true to his name, her restraining hand light on the reins. Lawrence dismounted and hauled Samuel by the collar […]
