The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 6 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… Though death was an old, close friend to her by now, still this scene had her greatly unsettled. It shouldn’t have been so, but her skin shuddered…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 5 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… In the black of the river, in the cold, they swam downward, following a clicking, moaning, shuddering song, while Lot breathed in the shape and the swirls…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 4 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… They didn’t yet know this city or its people, but that shouldn’t matter. Music always spoke, and in the hands of a half-djinn—in the hands of Du…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 3 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… “Here, San.” She plucked at San’s sleeve who’d sat on the other side of her, and pulled him back toward the back wall, pressing an ear against…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 2 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… Though today they had walked the full spans of twenty-two bridges, now they were brought to a stand-still, their purpose pulling them, but no openings marked out…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress Installment 1 of my next SSCS is now up! (That stands for Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Story, which is something you can find out more about here.) I’ll be putting out a new installment once each week, on Friday, until the story is done (around about mid August). This year’s story, ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress,’ is, as per usual, a new stand-alone story, separate from (and unlike) those that have come before….
So, last week was the Final Installment of SSCS 03: Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About. I hope you enjoyed it! The next SSCS will start up in January. As usual, SSCS 04 was written using the same approach as all the other SSCS’s, and this time I think I gave myself quite a run for my money, trying to keep all the details (characters) straight! Although I won’t be posting the SSCS 04 story title or first installment until…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 35 of this year’s SSCS (the final installment!). If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… There was a Bell I had to finish. A spell I needed to cast. And a beautiful boy, with black eyes and white teeth and beautiful, long-fingered hands who was waiting to…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 34 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… We’d all been cast into the Dreaming. And even if we refuse to remember them, nightmares have a way of perpetuating themselves. And, if you’re wondering (though Jack pointedly is not), the lions weren’t part…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 33 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Turning back to the first photograph I’d looked at, the young woman sitting attentive on a brocade couch, hair glittering, I saw a reflection or a shadow of something else pass across the glass. Something…