Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 19 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Instead it is the honey that answers. “You may have it,” the dry honey-cracks whisper, the wet honey-veins slurp, “if you can refuse to sing.” And in…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 18 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… The birthing of what? The scouts do not speak the question. They let it shiver through their fur, along the hollow planes of their stick-thin bones, and…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 17 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… At last, there is something solid in the darkness, a sliver of rock or an ancient, blackened bone, or something else unknowable, but it offers them rest,…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 16 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Green-and-purple flashes through the ice, and the others fall to her. And the sound of honey pauses, and takes a considering sip of the void. Here is…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 15 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Around them, now, the blocks of ice are not only blocks of ice. They are something screaming, or singing, locked in a perpetual whirlpool around this place,…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 14 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Her body has already turned thin as starlight. When the ice block catches her, it shears through her like starlight, flinging her bright and outward and everywhere…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 13 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… There is no frog-song. But there is bewitchment in the scent of this thing that has been lost for so long. Beneath the leaves of ruby-petaled flowers,…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 12 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… And far away. Far, far away. The desert draws back from the valley by a breath, by the thickness of a millimeter and the width of a…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 11 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… And then another sound sings across the plain. That sheet of swirling rocks that has neither up nor down but only inward shudders once in time with…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 10 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… And she will arrow toward it. She will meet it at that place they all must come, now that the beacon has called them. And as she…