Torsade Literary Space 
Sequence of Events (part four)
Sequence of Events Chapter One A Personal Choice iv. “I’d thought…or, I’d worried…” Stanley bent with his teacup and saucer over the table, pausing here, and gliding The Mason Bees nearer Freda’s. Freda had leafed The Mason Bees. She had […]
Sequence of Events (part three)
Sequence of Events Chapter One A Personal Choice iii. He’d ridden for the first time, handbag hugged to his chest, in the rear seat of an American taxicab. Larry, with pitying looks, had advised Stanley not to pay the driver […]
Sequence of Events (part two)
Sequence of Events Chapter One A Personal Choice ii. This alleged Mrs. Chamberlain had drawn Freda to a crossroads. At her door she was arrested, the thought of Phillip causing her hand on the key to lock. She found herself […]
Sequence of Events (part one)
Sequence of Events Chapter One A Personal Choice i. Late winter, 1928 He had taken everything. He had taken other people’s stories, grown ruthless to it; stories confided in what amounted to a covenant, between a child of his parish, […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred forty-one)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred forty-one) A person in livery came walking, two child servants beating his path with fans of woven feathers, and blowing warnings through reed whistles. Their labor fluttered hems and head-coverings; they struck gently and […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred forty)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred forty) “But pomp,” Castor finished, “will acknowledge you soon enough, when the zhatabe send their escort.” “Tell me what that means, zhatabe. Is the Citadel ruled by tribunal?” “The Citadel is not ruled. Not […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred thirty-nine)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred thirty-nine) “Of a great plague. The noble houses, the lords and ladies, all had thrown their gold into the smelting pot, and massed their gemstones in a pile. Celebrated artisans made glittering effigies of […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred thirty-eight)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred thirty-eight) When the roadway had broadened further, and on both sides stone blocks supported bright-painted wooden houses, I craned my neck to see spires or domes, or any grandeur that might amount to a […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred thirty-seven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Thirteen The Citadel (part one hundred thirty-seven) Our road began to descend. Trees clung less precariously to banks that did not vault, but sloped. Soon the trees’ variety had much increased, and the loneliness of the mountain crags gave way […]
The Totem-Maker (part one hundred thirty-six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Twelve A Land So Perilous (part one hundred thirty-six) Chance, in the fullness of time, might have come to the Kale Kale. They might, for grasping at freedom, have found they could feel entitled to freedom. They might have sought […]