Torsade Literary Space 
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred eighty-one)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred eighty-one) These thoughts galvanized Richard. On his feet, noting Bayard had made the last half-inch of whisky vanish, and knelt companionably into the story of Billy Holdclaw, he […]
Yoharie (part twenty-one)
Yoharie Totem-World (part twenty-one) “There’s speculation Southey only did it as a kind of meta-joke…not to be inclusive, the way we talk about that now, but just making a puzzle. So one could work out the answer. The few times his publisher issued any communication from him…I say […]
The Totem-Maker (part sixty-one)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part sixty-one) My friend the Hezhnian sailor returned. He bent for my basket. I waved a hand and pinched its edge, wanting not to be served any longer. Our tussle ended at once, for he was […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred eighty)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred eighty) His wandering mind saw fault in this. Gremots kept touch with Hawses. No, he should visit her in person. Easier into a face-to-face talk bringing a casual […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred seventy-nine)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred seventy-nine) He set the bottle on the floor. A pint is not much, Richard thought. “Wish no bad end on anyone,” the sheriff said. “But I don’t get […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred seventy-eight)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred seventy-eight) He sat rubbing his father’s hand with a wool sock. Fire warmed the cabin, but warmth was in the weather today, too. Heavy fog forecast change, and […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred seventy-seven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred seventy-seven) Morning, his eyes opened to fog, inside the cabin and out. He put off clammy blankets, shifted cats of his mother’s who’d clustered between his legs. He […]
The Totem-Maker (part sixty)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part sixty) “Eat. So that I may.” I pooled wine in my bowl, sopped my bread, finished while I watched around me. Many of the Emperor’s men were aboard these vessels of our hosts; the Hezhnian […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred seventy-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred seventy-six) Mary had been close about that vegetable patch. He could fork soil in his good time, with the excuse of being his brother’s prop-in-sorrows. The day Mrs. […]
Right Thought (poem)
Right Thought You would be free You would begin your hell-bound trek to liberation Attracted by a campaign Of eradication Clean surfaces, How To…how nice Soon emptied drawers exhale colonies Of clutter-squatters, camped on chairs You tell yourself, “I will clear three shelves” But small embodiments, often figurements Show you in […]