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SSCS 02: Installment 23 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 23 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 23 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… “Have you put the spire to rights, Mina?”  The voice was low and scratchy, but the priestess’ own, and Mina, feeling suddenly drained, answered without thought. “I’m not sure how, gran-Tom.”…

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SSCS 02: Installment 22 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 22 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 22 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… “Then you just need to mend something.  The actual thing that’s broken.  Let’s go figure out how to fix that stupid latch on that stupid pig gate.  For good this time.” …

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SSCS 02: Installment 21 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 21 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 21 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… But she wouldn’t believe the platitudes anyway, and she didn’t dare.  True she’d never tested it, but there was always a hard fear in Mina’s gut after every time the Other…

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SSCS 02: Installment 20 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 20 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 20 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… And she still didn’t know how to calm the sea.  She just fetched when gran-Tom said to fetch, and swept and cooked and cleaned up after the pigs likewise, so that…

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SSCS 02: Installment 19 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 19 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 19 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… This time, though, when gran-Tom reached out her tentacles, they wrapped around Mina’s wrist, hard and cold, and the warped voice that hissed from her shell-thin lips made a shudder of…

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SSCS 02: Installment 18 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 18 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 18 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… And what were the odds that by the time Mina got all of the stupid middle bits pinched out of the stupid scores of oyster bells she’d picked today, that the…

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SSCS 02: Installment 17 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 17 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 17 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… This time Mina did look up, the words ‘oh, grow a bit of fucking stomach’ poised on her lips.  But Hedwin wasn’t even looking at her.  He was eyeing the tea…

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SSCS 02: Installment 16 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 16 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 16 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… The roses glowed at her prettily as she got back to her shaky feet again, heart pounding in her ears. And the kraken, as far as she could tell, was simply…

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SSCS 02: Installment 15 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 15 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 15 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… (And never mind that when Hedwin ate flying fruit he really did bob around, like the steering mechanism for up and down was something well outside the realm of his control. …

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SSCS 02: Installment 14 of 32

SSCS 02: Installment 14 of 32

How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 14 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… She clipped the flowers, one, two, …five, ….  Before she could get to the sixth, a quiet, horrible sound reached her, like iron nails dragging along the side of an iron…

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