Torsade Literary Space 
Are You Haunted (part twenty-six)
Are You Haunted (part twenty-six) He was in the middle this time, a paper bag in one hand, his other on an ice chest, steadying it over his knees and Isobel’s. “You go out the back, and take your things.” Mrs. Lessing, loud at him, when […]
Are You Haunted (part twenty-five)
Are You Haunted (part twenty-five) Mrs. Lessing sat on a piano bench. The piano was there, too, in a dark spot by the window drapes. Powell felt a look askance tighten his neck, but held to the study of his dinner roll, his hand sopping gravy. […]
Are You Haunted (part twenty-four)
Are You Haunted (part twenty-four) Tovey was slick and aromatic as the day before. He wore the same suit. He augmented his remark with a pinkie, spat tobacco into his teacup, spread himself across the middle of the settee—and having used his grandmother’s china for a […]
The Resident (part thirty-two)
Chapter Four An Odd Man Out (part thirty-two) He knew Claudie wrote in her notebooks, in the pink gingham room, upstairs. A sensible, a naturally-fitting person, married four years… Would have asked his wife at some point, “Do you have a job?” He was gone to […]
Are You Haunted (part twenty-one)
Are You Haunted (part twenty-one) The glass was intact. Sunlight yellowed the fog’s upper billows; it might all burn off in an hour or two. Powell, as to reject panic he had been instructed, counted his breaths. He was still keyed up from the attack. He […]
Are You Haunted (part twenty)
Are You Haunted (part twenty) But his old friends would call him a liar, if he told them he had left believing the work would save them all. In expiation, Rohdl could say only that the lie had been told to him. How could it make […]
Are You Haunted (part nineteen)
Are You Haunted (part nineteen) He writhed, freed one arm and sat up. His damp hair had taken the smell of Guy’s blankets like a sponge, mixed with the powdery scent of soap flakes. He was full awake. He was almost heartbroken. The window showed a […]
Are You Haunted (part eighteen)
Are You Haunted (part eighteen) Summers had with him only a change of clothes, skivvies and socks, a shirt and slacks tailored to a fat man, packed in a cardboard suitcase. Noting the age of the lock assemblies, he hadn’t since moving in bothered with Guy’s […]
Are You Haunted (part seventeen)
Are You Haunted (part seventeen) Powell tested a handle of the kitchen faucet. Then jumped, at water spitting out like a phantom cat. He let it run a few seconds, weak, rusty brown. He guessed he shouldn’t have tried the hot. The boiler wasn’t going, so […]
Are You Haunted (part fifteen)
Are You Haunted (part fifteen) “It wasn’t Doyle alone who saw her. When they started doing the special work, Drybrook retired most of the old hands. Others they moved to New London, a different mill Drybrook owned where they waterproofed cloth for tents. But some of […]