Torsade Literary Space My Blog Week: July 30 to August 5
All the Latest from Torsade! On Tuesday and Wednesday, All Bedlam Courses Past, and Honoré’s last talk with his old friend. Friday, The Totem-Maker, and a game of fortunetelling. Saturday, The Mirrors, with Charmante recalling the day her […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part sixty-seven)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part sixty-seven) “What has this young man said to you?” “But I don’t know. Émile…I suppose he is not old…” “Clotilde. Will you repeat to me, as your memory allows, all that Honoré Gremot […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part sixty-six)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part sixty-six) Embracing Gilbert, he had told him, “Adieu, adieu…” Gilbert, dabbing at his eyes, but not, like Honoré, beset by a flow of mucous, a ringing in the ears, and a vague dizziness, […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part sixty-five)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part sixty-five) They were all, in this swamp of newness, to be educated, made more polished. He could well suspect Clotilde’s aunt, laying her concrete plans for the children’s futures, troweling all smooth (if […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part sixty-four)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part sixty-four) There was indulgence, too. A box from a Mrs. Buckley, brought upstairs by Ebrach’s housekeeper. Bertrand could give only a jumble of boats, face-making dishes, a play his great-aunt would not let […]
My Blog Week: July 23 to July 29
All the Latest from Torsade! Last time, I ran two “catch-up” Blog Weeks, so my fiction entries began Thursday, with three episodes of All Bedlam Courses Past, bringing the story to Honoré’s coming to terms with his father’s […]
The Mirrors (part fifty-one)
The Mirrors (part fifty-one) A cord ran from the tea table, a burner warming the pot. A Christmas basket sat next to this, tins of holiday cookies open for display. And missing, from months of frugal hostessing, their twos and threes. The crash had harmed Mrs. Turner’s dignity. […]
The Totem-Maker (part ten)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Two Jealousy (part ten) My plan was to make a memory story to suit each figure. Through Lom, to satisfy my curiosity, without his knowing of my other purpose. I would use a hex, an arrangement of triangles that tellers call houses, and have […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part sixty-three)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part sixty-three) A riffling through the notes, a glance at the floor, the discarded morning’s papers. Gilbert mimed his cares and worries unaware. But if Michelet was no byword…Honoré forgot which lies he’d told…the […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part sixty-two)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Three An Object in Motion (part sixty-two) But as physician, Ebrach could strip all privilege from Jerome’s poor embodiment. He could invent decline, cause it with his medicines. The spiritualist ruled Olympia and Hades alike; mystique a sort of […]