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…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 32 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… The water was grey, opaque with silt, and the smog smudged the distance across it, so that I knew I stood on the edge of the world. But the bricks beneath my feet were white. …
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 31 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… Less than one turning later, there stood the Machine. It wasn’t built of metal scaffolding. Steelwork wound through it and under it, thin and delicate and precise. But the rest was all…bones. A few of…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 30 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… –– And then the breeze turned cold, and the sky again cast a red light, and I was crouched alone in the silence beside the wall of the rail-deck. But it was the day that…