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…
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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…
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.
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The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 5 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… In the black of the river, in the cold, they swam downward, following a clicking, moaning, shuddering song, while Lot breathed in the shape and the swirls…
Alright, for this post, I really want to tell you about this awesome Netflix show called The Big Flower Fight. But first, I also need to tell you about how much I love the fairytale “Rapunzel”. It’s possible that this will turn mostly into a post about fairytales (in their moving-picture incarnations), but I’m hopeful I’ll be able to stay on track enough to also tell you about The Big Flower Fight. Stay tuned. So, “Rapunzel.” Classic, famous fairytale. It’s…
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The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 4 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… They didn’t yet know this city or its people, but that shouldn’t matter. Music always spoke, and in the hands of a half-djinn—in the hands of Du…
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