SSCS 03: Installment 23 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 23 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 23 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… There used to be a Palace on the river.  Its walls were made not of the black bricks, so common, but of white and blue, the colors of the river reflecting the sky, before the…

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SSCS 03: Installment 22 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 22 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 22 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… “I wish I could help more,” he said.  And then he looked away, turning to duck back inside.  Jack kept getting pulled away from his own work to come help me.  I still didn’t even…

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SSCS 03: Installment 21 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 21 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 21 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… I could feel a smoggy breeze on my cheeks up here.  I could look out past the shabby buildings all the way far enough to see the rusty glint of a junkyard, and know that…

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SSCS 03: Installment 20 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 20 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 20 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Poked in the ribs by the dandelion plate and leaning my tired face against my hand, I could just see the bits of the red scar where it trailed up to my wrist. There was…

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