Torsade Literary Space All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred thirty-nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred thirty-nine) “I’ll go clean up. Head to town.” He was in his long johns…and would have put on trousers, shod himself, done such as needed til dinnertime. Lawrence had never found it […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred thirty-eight)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred thirty-eight) i. A periodic scourge October. Chores easing up; easier, with the coolness, getting done. Mornings showing frost. Afternoons dry, dry and warm. Mary through a low-voiced ramble setting clouded […]
Yoharie (part sixteen)
Yoharie Dawn (part sixteen) That was how she’d dressed at eighteen, her first job. A half-pay gimme, from her mother’s friend Diane. “Dawn can come in four hours, afternoons.” Normal voice, then loud: “Can you file, alphabetize? Tina says you took typing.” “Yeah, I can. Thanks, Diane.” Dawn […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred thirty-seven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred thirty-seven) “Weem, my father wants rid of you. I don’t know why.” Weem made a noise in his throat. “I gave something away.” She heard the rummage of his bag. “You remember […]
The Totem-Maker (part forty-five)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part forty-five) At my first home I’d slept in profound silence. Dreams at the mountain’s foot did not meander from sound to sound, weave stories from caterwauling, birdsong, grunts and morning footsteps. I dreamt of blackened earth, shapes […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred thirty-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred thirty-six) Monday last, she had been surprised in town by William Thacker, jogging alongside Dancer. Through a dull spring, larded (for its reasons) with muddy weather and long waits, coming on to […]
The Tambinder Engine (part thirteen)
The Tambinder Engine A McAlley Story (part thirteen) She drove Mick to the airport. In a flood of nervous words. “I have a horse. I have my babies, Jyff and Bobbo. I can’t leave the country, they don’t let you nab a quick passport at the desk, while you’re paying […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred thirty-five)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred thirty-five) She was helping to recast Well-Being in the image of Immortia, the New England Community of Seekers quarterly. She was reviewing, for another task, the many books mailed to Ebrach by […]
The Resident (part twenty-one)
Chapter Three Tithonians iv. Alone on a bedtop, not climbing under sheets that always felt damp— This house, John would say to himself. Claudie had said it, and he didn’t wince tonight, made to hear her voice. Sleep was light. After twelve, Wissary, who […]
Yoharie (part fifteen)
Yoharie Dawn (part fifteen) Dawn tapped, passed the door at her stepdaughter’s sigh, leading with a hangar and plaid skirt. Giarma was looking at fashion (2 items Dawn could spot in her cart). She walked her chair back, extracted a strand of hair from her lip gloss…kept a […]