Torsade Literary Space The Resident (part nineteen)
Chapter Three Tithonians (part nineteen) I simplify. I don’t want to create an odd picture, of someone’s knocking at a kitchen door, offering treats… The first time machine was a tunnel, small and short, between functional ends. These were globe-shaped, one each in adjacent rooms. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-two) Ma’am, was what he called Verbena, and off, hollering this, Samuel went up the steep of the hill, on their own side. “So we’re not crossing.” “No use now. I’d of […]
The Mirrors (conclusion)
The Mirrors (part fifty-four) xx. She was in a basement room, of welled windows along Centre Street, a lunchtime parade of legs, then quiet and pecking pigeons. Like the research library this was, the room had long, wide tables stacked with reference books; and filing […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy-one)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy-one) “But they’ve got a little house…on one of these ridgetops…” “Lil cabin.” “And Lawrence pays his visits…” “Don’t think he does, much. Sends that boy of Mary Paton’s.” Mary Paton, who […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part seventy)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part seventy) Verbena—Élucide perked up a little, thinking of it—was the only one to need persuading. Old Richard didn’t let his wife go places alone. As a favor, she would say. Please, truly, […]
The Mirrors (part fifty-three)
The Mirrors (part fifty-three) And so for the sake of that wisdom, that had to be witnessed and passed on, Charmante’s eyes had seen the state of her father’s mortgaged house. There would be no money for the fixing up. Her mother’s cancer came, after the check for […]
The Totem-Maker (part twelve)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Two Jealousy (part twelve) If Sente often was read his fortune, he would doubt me, and I would need at once to think of a role for Lom. But we passed unspeaking down a dark and cool hall, the secret pomegranate nature of Sente’s […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part sixty-nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part sixty-nine) “But to be clear, sir, you are staying with us through tomorrow? If we have Fannie, Miss Nachfolger…” Ebrach, coming down the hallway, left off for Élucide’s pad and pencil. “And […]
The Totem-Maker (part eleven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Two Jealousy (part eleven) Lord Sente called through the window. His servants were at the rail, eyes on my mysteries, ears unhearing. Again, I turned fish… And so the gods must demand it. And here was eda, the diminutive. Lom gave a sigh. He […]
The Mirrors (part fifty-two)
The Mirrors (part fifty-two) But these were in her bedroom window, and she slid round the house to peek up at them, her white shoes scuffing dust along the bricks. Her father had said he would buy her a box camera; now, not at the end of the […]