Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 21
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SSCS 04: Installment 21 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 21 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… El stopped before they had the chance to be pushed too far into the public ways, closing her eyes and bracing herself against Lot, who had stopped…
fly-by-posting: 2026/05/20 (w/pic)
Things are weird in my garden right now, and not just because of the weather. The inside of one of my hoses collapsed (how does that happen?!). And this iris has been lying, beheaded, on the pavement for 3 DAYS without wilting. It’s like the laws of physics are reinventing themselves!
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 20
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where green is slowly starting to be a dominant color (at last!).)
SSCS 04: Installment 20 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 20 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… Then they reached down, carefully, firmly, and pulled it, burning, from the depths of their flesh and soul. And cast it away into the river’s night, already…
45-years-worth of Things to Remember
Sometimes my daughters get very exasperated when I forget something they’ve told me, like whether they talked to their teacher about turning that homework assignment in late, or that they have a planned social engagement this week, or that they already took the test on The Great Gatsby and don’t need to think about it anymore. I try to tell them that it is hard to remember everything everybody is up to, and that furthermore, being older, my memory banks…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 19
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Which is now pretending it did not snow buckets last mid-week.)
SSCS 04: Installment 19 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 19 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… Long-fingered hands, now dark and no longer sprinkled with starlight, reached from long-jointed arms upward much further and faster than Ki would have guessed. They wrapped around…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 18
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Which is sadly all but tulip-less.)
fly-by-posting: 2026/05/03
I will have you know it’s difficult to write a story when the voices of Ross and Rachel from Friends insist on being the mental-voice narrators. Though, they’re maybe a little better than Scrooge McDuck, who was more often the hazard when my kids were little. But still, very disruptive!