Torsade Literary Space 
Are You Haunted (part fifty-six)
Are You Haunted (part fifty-six) What he felt was a lack of, an end of, all sensation. No hammer at the back of his head, only cold. A cold inertia, with no shivering. His body seemed riveted to the floor. Some part of Powell’s memory understood […]
Are You Haunted (part fifty-five)
Are You Haunted (part fifty-five) When April arrived, she would stop in town, have tea with Mrs. Wolter and John, bring her basket with the knitted cap and scarf and bed-shawl, her winter gifts for them. But under these, pack a few travel things. John would […]
Are You Haunted (part fifty-four)
Are You Haunted (part fifty-four) He stood before a subterranean lake, black as obsidian. But now and again, as though the orchestra tuned its instruments, a shivering note of violin or piccolo would coincide with an expansion and compression of the lake’s surface. Rohdl thought he […]
Are You Haunted (part fifty-three)
Are You Haunted (part fifty-three) He pointed the cigarette at Isobel. “That distinction tells you a lot. See, Davis had a particular gift. It was the thing I liked about him myself, and I got to know him pretty well. If you introduced him to someone, […]
Are You Haunted (part fifty-two)
Are You Haunted (part fifty-two) “But why should they… Do you mean Mr. Guy? Why should they want to kill you?” “Well, if they stated their intentions among themselves, they would never say so. They might say they wanted to help me. But you see how […]
Are You Haunted (part fifty-one)
Are You Haunted (part fifty-one) He shivered in his undershirt, hugging himself as though he’d been caught outside half-dressed in midwinter. He knew outside it was warm. He was thirsty and unwilling to move. He was hungry, and there was no help for that. But there […]
Are You Haunted (part fifty)
Are You Haunted (part fifty) As with any event sudden and surprising, the first explosion occurred in the midst of ordinary preoccupations. A deep rumble shook the ground. A row of windows on the mill floor exposed a flash of light, and when flames shot through […]
The Resident: An Odd Man Out (part thirteen)
The Resident Chapter Four An Odd Man Out (part thirteen) They had been married in December of 1989. Claudie had died in February of 2011. A day John remembered also for the weather, emergence from a week of rain, to an upsurge of heat, 85 degrees […]
Are You Haunted (part forty-nine)
Are You Haunted (part forty-nine) That Rohdl had jolted him by speaking was immaterial; his answer might, to Rohdl, have done the same. “Is there a way out?” “I suppose there would have been two ways out.” By the volume of his voice, and unwashed smell, […]
Are You Haunted (part forty-eight)
Are You Haunted (part forty-eight) Again reaching the bottom of the second ramp, he risked the flashlight, and saw the water’s perfect mirror quiver in response to a wave of impact, a truck passing overhead. One he hadn’t quite heard. Heel to toe, he walked back […]