Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 26 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 moon reaches its zenith, and the beetles’ song stops. And they burrow back down into the sand, returning to their leaves and petals, returning to the…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 25 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… Because then the moon rises, round and perfect, more silver than the snake, which has wound itself down into the blackness of its spreading sand and barely…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 24 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… Two more loops and First-shivered has also mastered the path, and Black-fire. And then the last-and-smallest, who had traveled the furthest to reach the gather-place of the…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 23 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… “We must seek an orbit,” one of the other scouts replies. She is greyer than the others. She remembers the valley of the flowers as more than…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 22 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… In the sand beside the snake, the bone-bleached feathers shift. They scratch at the sand and sigh. They whisper. They hold a piece of the desert’s wind,…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 21 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… “Can you hear those echoes still?” Black-fire shakes the ice from her fur as her only means of shouting in this enforced near-silence. “Can you follow the…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 20 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… Soft hiss and crack now as the great bone beneath the scouts’ claws releases them from the other place, and the velvet void is soft again and…
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,…