Torsade Literary Space 
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-four)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part ninety-four) “And because you are persuasive, he will surrender his city to the Emperor. We avoid bloody war.” “Why, I ask you back…Why war at all? Let me answer. I can live peacefully with my […]
Are You Jealous (part eleven)
Are You Jealous (part eleven) Presby cast her a look of warm sympathy. The eyeglasses sketched encompassing circles. “We find desirable items from the interwar era,” he told Young. “Individuals, rather than starve, relinquished heirlooms.” “It was a period of great poverty in Europe.” “Factories unable to […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part ninety-three) “No, I won’t rush you.” He had made to rise, sank again. The fingers of a hand began to tap. “I ought to find the educated ones, the lawyers. And the talkers, the courtiers…convene […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-two)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part ninety-two) “What, again, do I not believe, my subtle young friend?” I felt I had caught myself, for opening my argument from a place within my thoughts. “If you had brought your household to me […]
Are You Jealous (part ten)
Are You Jealous (part ten) “Other purposes by then, as I was saying. Is she coming back?” Of an intern, or graduate student, making towards the couple. They sat smiling in the braced manner of those who have had enough of a person. Gabriel felt he would […]
Are You Jealous (part nine)
Are You Jealous (part nine) A second arrow pointed the opposite direction, indicating Parking! Because with such people you had, of course, left your car wrong as well. He would give it up, he told himself… But no. Venturing past the pillar, Gabriel had noticed a flash […]
Are You Jealous (part eight)
Are You Jealous (part eight) “I have to be there early. Just, please, don’t fuss. You’re old enough to find a place by yourself.” Eva, wearing black…many layers, but all black, rooted in her bag. She pulled out her turquoise beads. “Gabriel, do the clasp.” She had […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety-one)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part ninety-one) This fulsomeness of nature I would not have suspected. She took me up the steps with little pats and chuckles. I thought Jute had risen in fortune, that she was an intimate now of […]
The Totem-Maker (part ninety)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part ninety) What sort of home made a border stronghold in these lands? The clan of Ei had built theirs on a promontory, perched in good defense, the winding way up unsuited to a large company. […]
The Totem-Maker (part eighty-nine)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Nine The Recalcitrant One (part eighty-nine) I held my familiar to the sunlight, to have it shine prettily. I was shy of the face, allowing that one could be deluded… That, having the ambition to succeed, I might invent my […]