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!
SSCS 04: Installment 18 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 18 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… Even as they stopped a good ten paces away, the Trawerler lifted its head, somewhat slowly, weary, and gazed around at them. Its expression was remote and…
Sometimes It’s The Little Things
I have a lot of aspirations to have, not exactly a fancy house, but a nice house, one that matches my own sense of aesthetics and personal preferences. But, as anyone who has a house but does not have a personal decorator and the budget to match knows, getting there is a lot of work and time and effort. Since I’ve got lots of other things I also want or need to spend my work and time and effort on,…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 17
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where everything is taking a moment to remember what rain is like.)
SSCS 04: Installment 17 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 17 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… The black river water swirled them up, flecks and pieces of black chiton flashing within the ripples of moonlight, tiny, white moons of hosts’ eyes closed away…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 16
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where we had some very refreshing (brief) snow.)
SSCS 04: Installment 16 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 16 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… The stars, when he could look up and see the sky again, showed barely an hour had passed below, and then that it was barely a quarter…