Torsade Literary Space The Tambinder Engine (part twelve)
The Tambinder Engine A McAlley Story (part twelve) He was there, his old self, at a dim-lit table. She hadn’t showered. She hadn’t expected human talk with anyone, not this day. But it wasn’t embarrassment leadening her feet; it was Matthew, how he stared three-quarters to her. How daylight through […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred eighteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred eighteen) A slow fall was the only practical choice, paced by a wall rising left. At its finale, the wall sat six feet or so, while from broken pipe-heads along the way, water […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred seventeen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred seventeen) He puffed his cheeks at last, ending a struggle. Did it take chalking on a marquee your last remark had been sarcasm, that you were not a friend to any Gremot, least […]
The Totem-Maker (part thirty-six)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five The Mustering Grounds (part thirty-six) We were down the steps, into the sunset shadows of tall houses and steep-pitched streets. Down from the hills that overlooked the Sech-apla, a green plain cut by the sea, a crescent of empty terrace where in […]
My Blog Week: March 24 to March 30
All the Latest from Torsade! Two episodes this week of The Totem-Maker, with testimony from a seasoned knight, and Lady Nyma’s judgment. The Bedlam episode takes Richard into the river town to show his talent for Allen’s avocation. […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred sixteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred sixteen) He said: “I saw they had his name pasted up over the othern’s, fell sick.” “So Allen,” he said, “is a little bit known around here.” “People,” he said, “would come out […]
My Blog Week: March 18 to March 23
All the Latest from Torsade! I have two more cartoons in the works, so I’m just catching up this time by taking the weeks in order. The episodes of Bedlam detail Richard’s first foray with a counterfeit bill, […]
Yoharie (part twelve)
Yoharie Jeremiah (part twelve) Savannah, aged ten, so set on having an Australian Shepherd. Hibbler remembered searching with Kate online for a place they could drive to, open on a Saturday. Take the girls/Don’t take them. “But it has to be both their dog.” “You think you can […]
The Totem-Maker (part thirty-five)
The Totem-Maker Chapter Five The Mustering Grounds (part thirty-five) Cime, at the court’s adjourning, waited, standing where the great hall opened to the lesser, Sente at his side. I saw every face measure me, many gaze towards the dais, imagining Mumas… Mumas had not left his […]
All Bedlam Courses Past (part one hundred fifteen)
All Bedlam Courses Past Chapter Four Counterfeits (part one hundred fifteen) “How old am I? Thirty-five.” She struck him with her feathers, turning to speak. “Oh, women forty and fifty will play the young girls. The ingénues. But I have no opening.” “You […]