How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 9 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… “Gran-Tom? I ask your humblest apologies.” The words spilled themselves out, like the ritual they shouldn’t be but were, and Mina’s knees bent the rest of the way, down to the…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 8 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… “Now that –” he started, the tiny scales around his eyes flashing a brief gold. But before he could say anything else, the kraken gave another of its bone-grindingly loud and…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 7 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… Just then, though, they became aware of a low, sweet-edged humming throbbing through the air, slowly building in volume, as some sort of mist (or bits of dust?) spattered down around…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 6 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’d only ever seen the kraken on the holy days of the full moon, when gran-Tom sang the songs that were more, the Moon songs, and the kraken was let out…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 5 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… Because of course, just because a pig could fly, didn’t mean it would fly, …or keep doing so. And what happens when a greedy pig that’s eaten flying fruit flies up…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 4 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… Still, Mina grinned wickedly. “Not afraid enough,” she sang. “You need to bring the las– ” Just then, a bone-shivering, ear-shriveling shriek slashed the morning air. Though perhaps the stone walls…
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…