Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 29 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 I blinked, and found myself again standing inches away from my bell-Template. But it was Jack who was standing up on my stool, holding one line of the molding form we’d just…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 28 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… Either way, I could tell I wasn’t blushing this time. “If you show me the project you’ve been working on, will you take me to the noodle shop again after?” I was looking down now,…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 27 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… I let myself into the flat quietly. Nina would be back by now, and sleeping. And there wasn’t much night left before dawn for me to get my sleep in. I touched my teeth again,…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 26 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… Just then, something that was part of me came loose, and I found myself clutching at my own arm. Not in pain, but in fear of some sort of collapse and discovery. All the scents…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 25 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… Jack was bolted into the machine, his ankles attached to the gearing with what looked like steel bars shot straight through them. And as we waited, Elka worked with a drill, its motor buzzing in…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 24 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… When I came to, I was standing in front of my bell-template, my workbench pushed well to the side, and a richly dressed man I didn’t recognize standing beside me. In front of us, in…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 23 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… There used to be a Palace on the river. Its walls were made not of the black bricks, so common, but of white and blue, the colors of the river reflecting the sky, before the…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 22 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… “I wish I could help more,” he said. And then he looked away, turning to duck back inside. Jack kept getting pulled away from his own work to come help me. I still didn’t even…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 21 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… I could feel a smoggy breeze on my cheeks up here. I could look out past the shabby buildings all the way far enough to see the rusty glint of a junkyard, and know that…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 20 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… Poked in the ribs by the dandelion plate and leaning my tired face against my hand, I could just see the bits of the red scar where it trailed up to my wrist. There was…