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SSCS 03: Installment 13 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 13 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 13 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… Once I’d got my footing steadier, I finally looked up, to find we’d reached the end of the Factory wall and that the cross-avenue here was broad and straight, maybe straight enough to see all…

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SSCS 03: Installment 12 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 12 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 12 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… Before I could protest my confusion, or that I didn’t even know where Jack worked in this maze of workshops and screens, she raised her voice to a level that was too thin to be…

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SSCS 03: Installment 11 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 11 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 11 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… My hands still ached from my blisters, the skin of my palms stiff and tender, but all still strong beneath.  I stood up. And finally looked up at the tablet for my bell half-template.  There…

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SSCS 03: Installment 10 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 10 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 10 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 there was something faintly brighter on the street just beyond the factory wall, too.  First it just seemed a paler shadow, but then as my eyes grew used to the night it seemed to…

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SSCS 03: Installment 9 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 9 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 9 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… “Have you dreamed what it’s meant to be already?” she asked. I paused, feeling the weight of it behind me, then I shook my head, managing not to shudder.  “Not…yet.”  I didn’t tell her about…

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SSCS 03: Installment 8 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 8 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 8 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… Those hands were meant to go around a lantern.  I could see the shape of where it wasn’t yet and had started yesterday, very clumsily, to try to mold out the form of it on…

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SSCS 03: Installment 7 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 7 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 7 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 brick of this wall was also crumbling, and out of the gaps – nearly every one I could see – there sprouted little, yellow dandelions, scraggly, with ragged, toothy leaves and bright, soft flowers….

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SSCS 03: Installment 6 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 6 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 6 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… “Well, whatever you do, it will have to pull the entire template into a unified whole.”  Now she gestured to the other corners.  One looked like it held nothing so much as bird-like footprints of…

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SSCS 03: Installment 5 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 5 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 5 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… I finally got my mouth shut and my eyes turned away from staring, but by then the old woman was long gone. And I had less than no idea of what to do. A fish….

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SSCS 03: Installment 4 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 4 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 4 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… “Minister himself commissioned a new piece, and the last three girls they sent us jumped off the rail deck, one after the other, like they were reading from a script that said ‘suicide after tea.’ …

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