Torsade Literary Space 
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Are You Haunted (part twenty-eight)
Are You Haunted (part twenty-eight) “She,” Powell said. Had a load to bear, looking after her husband. And why are you taking her part? Isobel would say. “Don’t carry too much, you’ll lose your footing,” Isobel said. He weighed the radio. A cabinet model, an armful, […]
Are You Haunted (part twenty-seven)
Are You Haunted (part twenty-seven) Facing the ruin, he saw only the barbed upper tier of the fence, and a tin-hatted silo patchy with rust, the water tower. “He was Lettie’s nephew, born the year she died. His father was Davis as well. Papa Drybrook died […]