Torsade Literary Space All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred fifty-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred fifty-six) “You think you could find one, if you looked?” “Would the eggs be any good to eat?” “No, how could they?” Lawrence gave a glance to the buzzards and charted the […]
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All the Latest from Torsade! Two Bedlams, Élucide and Ebrach seeking spirit clues for a dead man’s identity, and Lawrence suspecting a plague in his house. A Totem, with a journey to the border fort, and befriending of […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred fifty-five)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred fifty-five) iii. Kinder in person Pearletta was at his back remarking how everything heading east gets more expensive, or they say, her Papa said so, being she hardly hadn’t been […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred fifty-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred fifty-four) Lawrence wore his black town coat. His only town coat, black every day of the year—but signifying on his behalf, while none of the sentiment and promises, the goodbyes, brought tears. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred fifty-three)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred fifty-three) Mary kept a few private papers in her Bible. Of these, Lawrence nursed a dread—of scribblings, the cursive hand of an individual. He had copied his ABCs on his school slate, […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred fifty-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred fifty-two) Launched in, Preacher Bayard could thank Jesus plenty. He had preached at the gravesite, though Hardy shortly appeared. Mary’s minister surprised, all this organized in a rush. For the public health, […]
The Totem-Maker (part fifty-one)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part fifty-one) One of the Prince’s captains came next morning, in company with my friend, the officer of the wagons. Jute stood tall, cupped her right wrist in her left hand, arm crooked upright below her neck. The […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (one hundred fifty-one)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred fifty-one) Mangin led his horse, and the two walked, Lawrence at a ponderous gait. He wanted to ask the doctor, this doctor, this sympathetic man… He did not want to ask Mr. […]
The Totem-Maker (part fifty)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Six A First Road (part fifty) When I’d eaten, when the servant had come with the cloth, and I had cleaned my fingers, I began idling with my tablets and tiles. This drew every eye. The general left his seat to grimace […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred fifty)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Six Short Days (part one hundred fifty) Lawrence stilled a certain sigh of completion. He knew his life would be difficult, that Mary had kept his house…that a wife did this. Mary had kept his house, and he […]