How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 3 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… At least now there wouldn’t be any rose blossoms for gran-Tom to send her after for at least a week, maybe two. As Mina took in the wide destruction of her…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters Well, here it is, installments 1 and 2 are now live of my next SSCS! (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 (pretty short) installment once each week, on Friday, until the story is done (around about early August). This year’s story, ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters,’ has a very different flavor than last…
Two weeks ago was the Final Installment of SSCS 01: Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory. I hope you enjoyed it! The next SSCS will start up in January. Although SSCS 02 was written using the same approach as for SSCS 01, it’s a very different story written in a different style. One of the great things about my SSCSs is that I get to use them for writing experimentation! I won’t be posting the SSCS…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 31 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 desert is made up of losses, and now they number in the thousands, in the tens of thousands. That is enough. The desert is death, and…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 30 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 OneVoice subsumes. The OneVoice knows only itself, has stolen thousands of voices so that they will sing to it of itself, building a choir only in…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 29 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 desert. It is an emptiness that grows wider, more still and vicious, and presses itself outward from their void. Its voice was taken by a sky…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 28 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 others, the four only who are left, can feel the shape of where she has gone. Gone and not gone. The path to where she is…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 27 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, abruptly, she realizes that she can hear the dervish skirling swelling and fading, and swelling again, in time with a great heartbeat. With this, the…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 26 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 moon reaches its zenith, and the beetles’ song stops. And they burrow back down into the sand, returning to their leaves and petals, returning to the…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 25 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… Because then the moon rises, round and perfect, more silver than the snake, which has wound itself down into the blackness of its spreading sand and barely…