Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 19 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… My arm was stiff, though, aching and burning somewhere deep. Now that it was bare, I turned it over, and found, hooking around the back of the elbow, an angry red scar that hadn’t been…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 18 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… While I was lost in those (not) thoughts, the bus stopped, and someone else got on. Someone tall and thin, carrying some sort of stick or cane. They had a thick mane of hair, the…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 17 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 when the sun-dazzle cleared from my eyes I was standing on top of my stool again, in the workroom. My nose was again inches from the clay surface, and the upper-left corner was now…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 16 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… But then I came around the screens to where my tablet was and found Elka still there, hunched and sitting on my stool, and staring up at the great slab of a thing. “There’s hole…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 15 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 air seemed clean and new, but I was afraid that if I breathed in too deep I’d smell the salt and some indefinable darkness hiding underneath. We’d seen something rushing by in the rain. …
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 14 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 another went by, just as quick. By now, the dread was such a hard knot in my belly, that I didn’t even realize I was squeezing Jack’s hand tight in my own until…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 13 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… Once I’d got my footing steadier, I finally looked up, to find we’d reached the end of the Factory wall and that the cross-avenue here was broad and straight, maybe straight enough to see all…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 12 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… Before I could protest my confusion, or that I didn’t even know where Jack worked in this maze of workshops and screens, she raised her voice to a level that was too thin to be…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 11 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… My hands still ached from my blisters, the skin of my palms stiff and tender, but all still strong beneath. I stood up. And finally looked up at the tablet for my bell half-template. There…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 10 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… But there was something faintly brighter on the street just beyond the factory wall, too. First it just seemed a paler shadow, but then as my eyes grew used to the night it seemed to…