Torsade Literary Space The Totem-Maker (part thirty-four)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Four To Be and to Choose (part thirty-four) “Now, one who is challenged may see fit to decline. When it is recorded that he answers no, equally he has forfeited the right of dispute. What is charged against him stands, though he pays […]
Yoharie (part eleven)
Yoharie Kate Hibbler and Mat Busby (part eleven) He had watched Yoharie’s daughter down the street for a minute. “Pretty girl.” The absentness was the killer. Just that murmured comment like he’d forgotten his wife was beside him, hearing. Kate jostled Jer’s saucer of peanut butter crackers. “Jarmah. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred twelve)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred twelve) The town’s waterfront was all its commerce and most of its residences. Wharfboat, floating pier. Rubble in a mound lit by the wharfboat’s lamps…depot for people who wanted rubble, or jetty-in-progress. Glimmers […]
The Totem-Maker (part thirty-three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Four To Be and to Choose (part thirty-three) The woman stood. Her face was scarred; her arms bore the grooves of knife wounds, accenting sinew and muscle. “I am called Pyrandtha. I am a Knight of Caeluvm, a Challenger. I fight no longer, […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred eleven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred eleven) Yeager’s hand showed flapping, under moonlight, before his white shirt. “You mean they had prospects?” “Prospects? Who’s that?” “Woolsaver. Investors. Someone like Ebrach.” “Ebrach’s got investors? I thought it was private money.” […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred ten)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred ten) On the bottom step sat a boy, that asked, as Richard placed a foot to crowd but not specifically kick the obstacle, “You going out? Where you going?” The landlord’s precaution. “Young […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred nine) “You take some of Ermentrude’s and clear em out. Bring back what you get. Ermentrude! All them dry?” He mimed a flapping paper. “Halt die Klappe, ja.” “Give Everard one.” Ermentrude tapped […]
The Totem-Maker (part thirty-two)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Four To Be and to Choose (part thirty-two) “If the master sends his slave to injure bodily an enemy, the master is at fault, but the slave does not escape the law. Yet let us propose that the enemy meets the slave and […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred eight)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred eight) ii. Traveling company So far Richard’s job was the simple one, of rapping knuckles on the door (to imagination), Ermentrude entrusted with sounds. Mrs. Allen’s start, full-bodied theatrical, seemed […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred seven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred seven) Bayard must be a traveling preacher; in his dry spells, a temperance talker. The cup of bitterness seemed set to overflow, and Richard, not troubling to hear, went about his business. This […]