Torsade Literary Space 
An Odd Man Out (part two)
The Resident Chapter Four An Odd Man Out [rerunning the last several entries to help readers catch up, because I haven’t added to this story for months] If anyone talked afterwards, while in the dim John explained cables, ports, disk drives, the importance of a […]
An Odd Man Out (part one)
The Resident Chapter Four An Odd Man Out [rerunning the last several entries to help readers catch up, because I haven’t added to this story for months] Think of an anchor, a memory… A house moved into and high hopes of August, 1990. Or an […]
Are You Haunted (part forty-four)
Are You Haunted (part forty-four) That smack of the arm, jogging past, like Alfin’s. Unmollified, Powell gave Tovey the lead, heard come back, “I can get that buggy down the hill for you. Better let me.” He let his feet carry him, counseling himself against it. […]
Are You Haunted (part forty-three)
Are You Haunted (part forty-three) He carried a flashlight, skidding after Tovey down the hill. “Hold up! “Listen, I hope…” Tovey held up only for the trodden grass, and dropped his tools. “Yeah, this is good. Throw me down the light.” “I hope…” It had taken […]
Are You Haunted (part forty-two)
Are You Haunted (part forty-two) He knew this look on the face of Mrs. Lessing’s sister…brows cinched, smiling with the corners of her mouth resisting. He thought he might as well not offer to shake the Keegans’ hands. Keegan stood behind his wife, his in his […]
Are You Haunted (part forty-one)
Are You Haunted (part forty-one) Rays of sun, broken by the grid, cast disparate shapes on the tunnel floor, like small ashen figures. “Well, we’re on fire.” Davis Drybrook had said it, and punctuated the words with a chuckle. He did not misunderstand the seriousness of […]
Are You Haunted (part forty)
Are You Haunted (part forty) I will let you call me Lettie, if you know me well You may kiss me in the moonlight, and I’ll never tell No, I’m not a lass coquette-y with the village swells The voice faded as the radiance […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred eight)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Ten Crafter Becomes Maker (part one hundred eight) Then… If a person who is kind, whose justice is sure-fixed as the quiet mountain we call Ami… If, she, you believe in; her honor is to you a matter of faith; […]
Are You Haunted (part thirty-six)
Are You Haunted (part thirty-six) He could see the full path of the streambed, hilltop to roadside. A deep hollow below the dogleg, a well without contour. He overlaid this with snow, glittering feet of it. He wished he could see the ghost…if she would show […]
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 […]