Torsade Literary Space All Bedlam Courses Past (part eighty-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part eighty-two) “What a frown, Luce. Go sit where the light’s better. You’ll be in spectacles.” Do you think? I could take drama lessons. Maybe the light’s better in Paris. “I’m not trying […]
The Totem-Maker (part fifteen)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Two Jealousy (part fifteen) The wine in this country had for many years now a foul undertaste. Well, that was the soil itself; the changeable airs between the mountain and the sea. Sweeter could be found in the north. But being a month’s journey, […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part eighty-one)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part eighty-one) We have spoken of the bargain a thousand times, you know it very well, that since the day of her christening you are promised to Amaldi’s Anna Maria. But the university, […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part eighty)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part eighty) No irony here. “I was travelling, the clothes. You know I was. You could have come.” “I certainly could not have. And we don’t need that tone of voice.” Should I […]
My Blog Week: September 24 to September 30
All the Latest from Torsade! On Friday, All Bedlam Courses Past, with an awkward Sunday dinner at the Summit. Friday, too, several hours later, I posted a new Totem, with the tiles predicting Lord Sente’s soon-to-be-announced news. A […]
The Totem-Maker (part fourteen)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Two Jealousy (part fourteen) I drew for Sente mostly dry signs, the least ill-boding reversed. An easier sort of luck than rain, so given to deluge or drought, too much or none at all. The dove, bearer of gossip, sat center. Sun was below, […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-nine) Something brewed. She took it for anger at Owen, though he must with his in-laws sit down to Sunday roast. He must, when he could, see his wife. He must work […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-eight)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-eight) “Oh, Mariette will be tickled. Look how pretty!” A quarter of peach damask, a miniature ball-gown’s worth. Mariette’s first lady doll to wear what Clotilde could make of these… “And […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-seven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-seven) iv. Daughters Her sister let the shirtwaist fall, one of the spaniels too interested… In snuffling deep, as a dog near blind with age will, the scent […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-six) “Ma’am.” She wasn’t sure, the rhododendron masking them from one another, that Lawrence could be speaking to her. A moment passed, while neither Élucide nor Mrs. Koker answered. “Ma’am,” he said […]