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…