Torsade Literary Space 
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred forty-seven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred forty-seven) And what was the Citadel, when finally I saw it? Not for the first time. When speaking to Wosogo long ago, I had seen that configuration, that plain at the foot of vast […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred forty-six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred forty-six) Here to lose. My puzzle needed this solving: What would I have done, were I to count myself the winner? How then, failing, could I achieve a better thing? I heard a sudden […]
Sequence of Events (part twelve)
Sequence of Events Chapter Two Mud in Your Eye Badgley’s Detective’s Primer Cyrus Badgley and M. Milton Hoagley Revised edition, 1916 CHAPTER ONE Demeanor and Gist A fellow visits his Aunt Francie, and the two repair to her front veranda, […]
Sequence of Events (part eleven)
Sequence of Events Chapter Two Mud in Your Eye Bruner crawled his Ford on a street…Redbud Lane, Freda thought she’d seen…where small white houses sat at the backs of long gardens. Or grass lawns, mostly, unfenced, unwalled, naked privet hedges dividing them, graveled tracks […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred forty-five)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred forty-five) I cantered on, Cuerpha in the mood for this run, our way sloping downwards. My Totem had been seeking me, for the sensible thought came that I ought to seek it. And with […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred forty-four)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred forty-four) “Your brother,” I said, “is named Ami?” “When we are affirmed, we take the name of a patron god.” “But Ami?” “Any of many hundred.” “You have not told me yours.” “Neither have […]
Sequence of Events (part ten)
Sequence of Events Chapter Two Mud in Your Eye ii. Following her down Mrs. Chamberlain’s stairs, had come a voice. “Why don’t you forget this place and take a walk with me? It’s a public street.” The echo of his shoes died, […]
Sequence of Events (part nine)
Sequence of Events Chapter Two Mud in Your Eye “Another pearly gater, per the Herald.” She was not a secretary, because Harvey worked only three months of the year. He called Luberta his factotum, and would now and then lower her […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred forty-three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred forty-three) Morning arrived, and Castor with the ponies, parting a heavy mist that veiled Torin’s lane. From discontented sleep I had risen before the household…and gained none of the hour of peace and privacy […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred forty-two)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred forty-two) My purpose in these accounts is to teach of my journey to a modest wisdom—which I allow to be revered (for the poor of the land have only the wise to spare them […]