Torsade Literary Space 
Story: Palma (part four)
Palma (part four) There were dates of significance. Eyes, on the twenty-seventh or fourteenth of particular months, would meet. Contact could be followed by business: a thing dropped, a thing fished from a bag, a color revealed by a scarf removed. Walkers with companions could chitchat, passing by. And […]
Story: Palma (part three)
Palma (part three) The Wainwrights had come when the invasion was expected. Only expected, like an inundation, a volcanic winter, a thing that must be horrible in its encroaching effects. The sky had remained blue. Taxis had crawled the capital. Palma had gone out in heels and velvet. Past […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred eleven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred eleven) Why did you place your arms around her? Shute wrote here that the subject fell mute, and expressions appeared on his face, suggestive, in Shute’s opinion, of calculation. After […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred ten)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred ten) Try it and see. Shute read a portion of Myra’s statement. “Should he have?” Élucide asked. “No. But one or two from the ship had been fetched in, Lubinski […]
The Totem-Maker (part seventy-three)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Use for Use (part seventy-three) For a song he gave me a sewing kit, yarn, salt, herbs. Boots, and a following of him to the sheep’s cave, where he showed me how I would get wool—a comb to draw […]
Story: Palma (part two)
Palma (part two) Palma kept her door stoppered open. Her message: that if they surveilled everything, she had no secrets and couldn’t care. She had pretty clothes and never wore them. She had keepsakes of her mother’s and would let them be smashed to the street below. This smashing […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred nine) But Monaghan lifted a hand. “Time enough. Time enough. We shall take all our business in order, pleasing Miss Gremot.” Let the record state that Gorman smelled, and that […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred eight)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred eight) I don’t discount Arnulfa. She does far more than I would do. A question seemed raised again, whether Miss Buckley got on well with her mother. What do you […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part two hundred seven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Eight Things Relative (part two hundred seven) Other photos were of the body laid out, on an infirmary bed, one curtain drawn. These were shocking, yes. Regina was decent, both covered and clean; she had not […]
The Totem-Maker (part seventy-two)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Eight Use for Use (part seventy-two) After the chores of the fire, we spitted meat, dividing one hare. I offered him my new-picked greens, my seeds and my honey. I boiled water to steep the fat and bones. This broth […]