Torsade Literary Space 
The Resident (part thirty-one)
Chapter Four An Odd Man Out (part thirty-one) They had their bed from the apartment in a guest room. Guest rooms, so crazy (he thought in Claudie’s language), the having of these to manage. Just a mattress on the floor of their own room. Upstairs at […]
Are You Haunted (part four)
Are You Haunted (part four) He saw daylight through shutters stripe the floors, each stripe sparkle with dust. The Drybrook place was vacant, but its owners knew the worth of it. The trust must pay for a cleaning now and then. And Guy only policed the […]
Are You Haunted (part three)
Are You Haunted (part three) Powell thought Guy’s job must be easy, though. Mostly driving around. “You don’t need anything, I’m gettin on.” This, and a Jesus lord possible, under breath as Guy turned away. He was offended. Powell wasn’t sure how he was going to […]
Are You Haunted (part two)
Are You Haunted (part two) He heard crickets, and the repeated call of a whippoorwill. And they would not have started up, he knew this much of nature, unless the storm were retreating. He heard Rohdl. “You know nothing about me. For a very long time, […]
Are You Haunted (part one)
Are You Haunted (part one) O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind Saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The […]
The Tambinder Engine (part eighteen)
The Tambinder Engine (part eighteen) She woke in the trailer. The last home she would ever have, Deenie began to believe it. Her story had kept them past time for driving the cracking asphalt, and Rory with Tirza was under a blanket, on the small square of floor. You woke […]
The Resident (part thirty)
Chapter Four An Odd Man Out (part thirty) “You’re mad that I did something, or you’re mad because I talk to Aura. But! The whole thing about her husband is so…” “They’re divorced, aren’t they? Not married. I’m not mad at you.” “They are divorced.” Amusement…Claudie’s […]
The Resident (part twenty-nine)
Chapter Four An Odd Man Out (part twenty-nine) “I did agree, I know. I’m not a hugely disciplined person. And I have John.” Their phone was on the kitchen wall. He was in the shower, using a credit card, reconstituting a bar of soap with each […]
The Resident (part twenty-eight)
Chapter Four An Odd Man Out (part twenty-eight) Aura turned, surprised, not happy, but deciding to have it be a good thing. “For Christmas, Dad. These sweet people are John Rancilton and Claudine, his fiancée. His mother, Gina. And this is Teconieshe, my father.” “That sounds […]
The Resident (part twenty-seven)
Chapter Four An Odd Man Out (part twenty-seven) A year later, they were married at Oathbreach Farm. At Christmas. The promise had woven itself in, and once their friendship arrived to Claudie’s sharing his apartment, she talked about Christmas as a given, cookies she might bake, […]