Torsade Literary Space 
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred nineteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred nineteen) “Full of the effort to quote terms he’d picked up from my patients, which I do not bandy. Almost energetic…and so I may have lacked attention myself, a fault. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred eighteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred eighteen) Still, if he liked, he could settle in Cookesville, eke a writing income from Well-Being, from the Vanguard, if he would be her employee and Fannie’s. Or take other […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred seventeen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred seventeen) You are always trying to get me into trouble. I feel the man who ventures leafing this opus in public will find himself beckoned behind a curtain, by a […]
The Totem-Maker (part seventy-five)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Use for Use (part seventy-five) It discontented me much to feel rivaled by a legendary Me, adventuring while its poor shadow lay tethered. I reminded myself of my list. Fresh-killed game, if they had any. More yarn. More arrows […]
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, […]
The Tambinder Engine (part seventeen)
The Tambinder Engine (part seventeen) Werin Dycks, aged 57, ruled suicide by drowning Amanda Allenson, aged 23, ruled suicide by drowning Lan Tran, aged 30, ruled suicide by drowning Carl Butters, aged 32, ruled suicide by drowning Fian Cornach, aged 24, ruled suicide by drowning Talley McNeil, aged 44, ruled […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred sixteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred sixteen) “He can have them without a warrant. If he asks. But this.” She slid Myra’s from the Buckley folder (whatever her affairs looked like to the casual visitor, they […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred fifteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred fifteen) “It’s a heck of a case, I’ll say it,” Weem said. They were in the sunny parlor, Élucide’s work office; Mrs. Frame was in her room. Daylight, reaching these […]
The Resident (part twenty-six)
Chapter Four An Odd Man Out (part twenty-six) John had parents. They were divorced. His father did arrive at holidays, and might. He wanted to be normal in Claudie’s eyes. Come to my house. I mean, not my house, my mother’s. But I’ll pick you up, […]
The Totem-Maker (part seventy-four)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Use for Use (part seventy-four) I’d taken these stories for truth. We were not like the northern people. In their songs, throughout all memory told, they had lived in one place. They found us unbeautiful, or colored in ways […]