Torsade Literary Space All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred twenty-three)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred twenty-three) A tabloid had been shown to Rowan by more than one person. So he printed. It calls itself the Flagstaff, a publication of the type that hatches like a mayfly, […]
The Totem-Maker (part thirty-nine)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five The Mustering Grounds (part thirty-nine) The knife was iron; together with the shield, too heavy. “Could I fight with only a shield, though?” “Can you kill a man with a blow?” Thoughts of divine justice… But I hadn’t the strength of a […]
Yoharie (part thirteen)
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All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred twenty-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred twenty-two) She walked away. A man with alacrity would have said, “What are you paying?” In her secret heart, she wanted to sit on Cemetery Hill and watch the hospital roll in […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred twenty-one)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred twenty-one) A lull, the band furnished with a platform to mount, and busy at it, the old soldiers entertaining with gun drills. Rowan’s subscription campaign had raised money enough (to back a […]
The Totem-Maker (part thirty-eight)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five The Mustering Grounds (part thirty-eight) Rapid was the exchange of tests, up to the dozenth spin. The board cleared, and ignorant to any means of victory, I advanced my men every which way, taking Stol’s as the spool indicated. He could have […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred twenty)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred twenty) “Present,” she offered, a second phrasing, “on occasions when the matter was discussed?” Some in the Rowan camp reserved for fine company a silent, slow-merge into haughtiness. Her father to them […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred nineteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred nineteen) i. Dedication Weighty things were the theme of January’s hard frost. That country roads be concrete, passable for a custom sledge sporting double sets of steel-rimmed wheels and a […]
The Totem-Maker (part thirty-seven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five The Mustering Grounds (part thirty-seven) Four days in which I’d expected, shunned and alone here, to meditate, to pray, that if the gods willed any service of me, they would grant the charity of revelation. “You say start…” His laugh was angry, […]
The Tambinder Engine (part twelve)
The Tambinder Engine A McAlley Story (part twelve) He was there, his old self, at a dim-lit table. She hadn’t showered. She hadn’t expected human talk with anyone, not this day. But it wasn’t embarrassment leadening her feet; it was Matthew, how he stared three-quarters to her. How daylight through […]