SSCS 03: Installment 17 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 17 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 17 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… And when the sun-dazzle cleared from my eyes I was standing on top of my stool again, in the workroom.  My nose was again inches from the clay surface, and the upper-left corner was now…

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SSCS 03: Installment 16 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 16 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 16 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… But then I came around the screens to where my tablet was and found Elka still there, hunched and sitting on my stool, and staring up at the great slab of a thing.  “There’s hole…

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SSCS 03: Installment 15 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 15 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 15 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… The air seemed clean and new, but I was afraid that if I breathed in too deep I’d smell the salt and some indefinable darkness hiding underneath.  We’d seen something rushing by in the rain. …

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SSCS 03: Installment 14 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 14 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 14 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… And then another went by, just as quick.  By now, the dread was such a hard knot in my belly, that I didn’t even realize I was squeezing Jack’s hand tight in my own until…

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I Have Made a Table-ish Thing!

I Have Made a Table-ish Thing!

I have made a table-ish thing!  Actually, I did most of the making last year, but I wasn’t able to finish it or use it until this month, for reasons that will become clear. First, though, I should say that I kind of only have two build-project speeds (for really any definition of ‘build’ that you like).  The most usual project speed begins with “I want this to be nice”.  And so, as a result, it takes me weeks and…

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