How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 28 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… “Here.” Gran-Tom held out one of those clawed hands now, one of the older, cracked tea-cups held in it. “Drink this to soothe your throat. I know now what the problem…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 27 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 had said she’d start teaching her to sing last night, and she probably had (based on the feeling when Mina tried to swallow), but Mina couldn’t remember any of it,…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 26 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… Mina shuddered, almost choking on her fish and earning an alarmed look from Hedwin as a thought came to her: What if the humming was all acolytes were allowed to start…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 25 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… “By itself, it would have been a terror. It is sure some would have been lost, no matter what. But after fighting the storm, and with so few of the acolytes…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 24 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… “I can teach you the First Hum, now, while you cook,” the priestess said. “First, though, do you want to know how your parents died?” …How to Catch Flying Pigs, and…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 23 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… “Have you put the spire to rights, Mina?” The voice was low and scratchy, but the priestess’ own, and Mina, feeling suddenly drained, answered without thought. “I’m not sure how, gran-Tom.”…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 22 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… “Then you just need to mend something. The actual thing that’s broken. Let’s go figure out how to fix that stupid latch on that stupid pig gate. For good this time.” …
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 21 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… But she wouldn’t believe the platitudes anyway, and she didn’t dare. True she’d never tested it, but there was always a hard fear in Mina’s gut after every time the Other…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 20 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… And she still didn’t know how to calm the sea. She just fetched when gran-Tom said to fetch, and swept and cooked and cleaned up after the pigs likewise, so that…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 19 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… This time, though, when gran-Tom reached out her tentacles, they wrapped around Mina’s wrist, hard and cold, and the warped voice that hissed from her shell-thin lips made a shudder of…