Torsade Literary Space 
The Tambinder Engine (part fourteen)
The Tambinder Engine A McAlley Story (part fourteen) A wooden rocking, passing the barn, what Ondine would do in her stall when her ears told her Deenie was near. Deenie, missing person to the barking dog indoors, and the cat, tail swinging up the walk. She bent and pulled him […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred sixty-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred sixty-six) These tarot layings were Rutherford’s, his potshot at the flamboyance of a Gordon Bennett. The Vanguard, showing a fitting sense of localness and reach-within-grasp, was sponsoring the […]
My Blog Week: August 18 to August 24
All the Latest from Torsade! Two episodes of Bedlam, Lawrence with Dr. Mangin, and attempting business in town. And a poem, from an early book, on the difficult times we haven’t shed yet. […]
The Totem-Maker (part fifty-seven)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part fifty-seven) This, while animated, was all too speedy for Egdoah’s grasp. Jute explained, in a slow, condescending way, that Escmar was ashamed to bear her own form, and made herself a bird once more, a […]
My Blog Week: August 11 to August 17
All the Latest from Torsade! Two episodes of Bedlam, the doctor seeing Mary, and Lawrence fetching Lidah. And a Totem, trying the tiles, and meeting an unexpected guest. My Blog Week: August 11 […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred sixty-five)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred sixty-five) Richard recalled his mother spit-wiping her skillet clean, rag always tucked in an apron band. Good enough, but no rag… Have to try a pillowcase. One egg […]
The Totem-Maker (part fifty-six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part fifty-six) Happy-enough hours I had spent wading the ashy stream, searching for this soft, translucent stone. I was shown how to use a flint to etch spiral lines, deeper ones where I wanted my stone […]
Closed (poem)
Closed On remembered walks, sun sapping the will to squint at the curb where a car might jump Not be blinded into casualty by fair weather Become a digit in a death toll, rushed to hospital “…died of injuries sustained” Sustained, as gaveled into allowability By whom It just seems, the […]
My Blog Week: August 4 to August 10
All the Latest from Torsade! Three episodes of Bedlam, Lawrence coming to terms with Mary’s sickness. And a Totem, with adjustment to having a servant, and trying to fathom the will of Lotoq. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred sixty-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Seven Can’t Leave for Staying (part one hundred sixty-four) Wrapped in a quilt, Richard went outside and came in grumbling, kicked the door shut…understanding, suddenly, why a lump of sandstone sat on the floor. Can’t fix […]