Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 9 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, all at once, the starlight within her cries out, seems to take a deep breath in, while the star-black sky beats down at her, shouting. …
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 8 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 so the third-returned scout dives free of the peak to fly home. Home, home, home. Her stick-thin bones may barely hold her, but it will be…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 7 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… Now, when the wind howls upward, the heart of the beacon trembles, and shudders, and beats its first beat. And the cold, desert wind is forced to…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 6 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… Once the seating stone is placed, and prepared, then it must be fixed beneath a fine layer of blood. This will be the heart of the beacon….
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 5 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 scout longs to rush homeward, to spread her stick-thin limbs and fly on the fastest wind that will take her. But on her long-long journey, she…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 4 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… She was only the second scout to come home. There are seven others yet to return. …Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory Installment…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 3 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… Their scouts left home more recently, perhaps only five-hundred years. Their scouts know that their valley is circled now by a vast, sandy desert. Their scouts know…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 2 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… They fill the valley rim-to-rim. A carpet of amethyst and ruby. And they wait for their bees. Or they wait for their scouts to come home. …Because…
My Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Stories (SSCS’s) are a series of stories that I started in 2018 as something to dabble with, but that I picked up in earnest in 2019. I’m a very slow writer, and at the end of 2018 I had just finished the first draft of my 2nd book. That meant that 2019 was staring down the barrel of a lot of revision time. I like revising, but I’m very slow at that too, and my first drafts…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is the first installment of my first SSCS, which stands for Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Story. I’ll say a little bit about this story-type of mine in a future post. For right now, you should just know: a) I’ll be putting out each (quite short) installment once each week, on Friday, until the story is done. (Sometime around July or August?) b) The SSCSs are all somewhat free-form and experimental, and…