Torsade Literary Space Two poems, not mine
A few good thoughts from writers of the 19th century [Lines] Ah! what a great man King Midas was, His like we shall ne’er behold ! For whatever his majesty deign’d to touch, That instant it turned to gold. But oh, the times are altered quite, […]
My Blog Week: April 28 to May 3
All the Latest from Torsade! A short week, of only two Bedlam posts, in which the Cookesville mounting of Lincoln’s statue progresses. My Blog Week: April 28 to May 3 All […]
The Totem-Maker (part forty-one)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five The Mustering Grounds (part forty-one) For the Prince’s underling these word were enough. I heard running feet fade along the parapet, and soon he crossed the field, tapping men on the shoulder. Some game with a ball that was not to touch […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred twenty-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred twenty-six) My friends, let me recall to you a time…if you will forgive my speaking not yet of the Great Emancipator, but of those virtues so vital to our Union, that their […]
The Caretaker (poem)
The Caretaker Leatherette pairs well with duct tape Your luckiest seat will be the one …well, first, you find You cannot always find a place to sag, when like the figure on the floor-mopper’s sign You slip, and your head pops off A repairable chair, cornered bolts not lost, if loosened […]
My Blog Week: April 21 to April 27
All the Latest from Torsade! A new chapter of Bedlam, a city ceremony vying with a political stunt. Then Totem, a first lesson in the physicality of combat. My Blog Week: April 21 […]
The Totem-Maker (part forty)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five The Mustering Grounds (part forty) The Prince had found a noisy man, Imoë the Squatter, thief of a hilltop home. Like he of the Villa Montadta, the owner lived away, south in the Emperor’s ugly capital, at the Emperor’s feet. Imoë was […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred twenty-five)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred twenty-five) For a donation (expected large) in consideration of expense, a record might be searched by a priest, who would begin by being the wrong priest, located by an official, who would […]
My Blog Week: April 14 to April 20
All the Latest from Torsade! Two episodes of Bedlam, Richard buying some newspapers in Cincinnati. Then a new Tambinder, with Deenie meeting Mick, and fearing for Matthew. Also a Totem-Maker, and introduction to The War-Maker’s game. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred twenty-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Five Collecting Debts (part one hundred twenty-four) It had taken a day… Rowan’s asking of, to locate just where he’d filed that copy. He would not say Mr. Yeager, but someone in his employ had picked it up, […]