Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 9
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where the flowers want to bloom but are longing for water.)
SSCS 04: Installment 9 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 9 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… “Could the silver thread have come from the Heart itself?” San whispered to El, remembering that conversation as the five climbed the rusty stairs back up to…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 8
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Which is debating the hot sun about the soonness of spring.)
SSCS 04: Installment 8 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 8 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… “Just a heartbeat,” Lot answered. “It sounded like part of the Trawerler song at first, but then the song stopped and the hearbeat was still there, for…
Quirky (True) Stories Volume 3: A backyard wilderness
Hello. Hello. It looks like it is time for another round of Quirky (True) Stories, where I regale you with a small selection of random (but true!) stories, apropos of basically nothing. Like the last round of stories, this round has a theme, which is: Random, wild-animal stuff that has happened in my back yard. That sounds vaguely exciting, but you will have to decide for yourself whether these stories live up to the hype. I will warn you ahead…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 7
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where, despite a smattering of rain, things continue very warm and very dry.)
SSCS 04: Installment 7 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 7 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… “Alright. Give me a minute,” she answered, a jerk of her small chin to make Lot scooch over, then settled down in her place. Back-to-back with the…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 6
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where it is sunny and mild and too soon for Spring.)
SSCS 04: Installment 6 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 6 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… Though death was an old, close friend to her by now, still this scene had her greatly unsettled. It shouldn’t have been so, but her skin shuddered…
fly-by-posting: 2026/02/05
Got another reminder today that the story needs to start with the most important info first. I got turned around on the one I’m working on because the setting is contemporary. But the story itself is still speculative fiction, so the spec.fic. element does still need to exist right up front. Thank goodness. I was really struggling there.