Torsade Literary Space 
Are You Haunted (part thirty-five)
Are You Haunted (part thirty-five) They heard the floorboard bump. Lois drew breath. Alfin pushed up. Dennis half-closed his eyes and glanced with this arch face at Isobel, then Powell. “Mr. Rohdl!” Summers called. “Will you come down?” Motions, and Rohdl came, haggard and wild-haired, to […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-eight)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten Crafter Becomes Maker (part ninety-eight) I explored the garden’s squares-within-squares, thick-needled shrubs outermost, their branches appealing to the heavens, hearts chopped. These were Lord Ei’s supply of firewood. Tracing the path to the very wall, I found that alongside […]
Are You Haunted (part thirty-four)
Are You Haunted (part thirty-four) Powell kept back, loitering in a corner, unstacking a bowl after the others had shuffled past, moving himself to the end of the line. He took two deviled eggs, dropped in a handful of pretzels, a chicken leg, a scoop of […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten Crafter Becomes Maker (part ninety-six) I was given to Noakale to entertain, or be entertained by. Please allow me, I told her, to share in the needlework. For as Shenath’s visit will have had you guessing, the household prepared […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-five)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part ninety-five) He answered with a long sober silence. Then: “I will want Wosogo. I should summon Lord Ei as well. Wosogo has told me not to speak to you, that if the god Lotoq favors […]
Are You Haunted (part thirty-three)
Are You Haunted (part thirty-three) Bricks were all over the property, easy to gather; all over the cellar, already dusted up. Fresh mortar would have to be stained, but the stuff to stain it with was right here. A coat of something sticky…even water. A broom […]
Are You Jealous (conclusion)
Are You Jealous (part twelve) They fetched up on the rim of a circle whose center was another Henderson, further elongated, alike pale-eyed and hawk-nosed. Gabriel knew of no famous Youngs. He could not place the man he assumed to be Henderson’s brother. He supposed it delightful […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-four)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part ninety-four) “And because you are persuasive, he will surrender his city to the Emperor. We avoid bloody war.” “Why, I ask you back…Why war at all? Let me answer. I can live peacefully with my […]
Are You Jealous (part eleven)
Are You Jealous (part eleven) Presby cast her a look of warm sympathy. The eyeglasses sketched encompassing circles. “We find desirable items from the interwar era,” he told Young. “Individuals, rather than starve, relinquished heirlooms.” “It was a period of great poverty in Europe.” “Factories unable to […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part ninety-three) “No, I won’t rush you.” He had made to rise, sank again. The fingers of a hand began to tap. “I ought to find the educated ones, the lawyers. And the talkers, the courtiers…convene […]