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SSCS 01: Installment 30 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 30 of 31

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…

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SSCS 01: Installment 29 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 29 of 31

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…

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SSCS 01: Installment 28 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 28 of 31

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…

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SSCS 01: Installment 27 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 27 of 31

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…

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SSCS 01: Installment 26 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 26 of 31

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…

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SSCS 01: Installment 25 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 25 of 31

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…

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SSCS 01: Installment 24 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 24 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 24 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… Two more loops and First-shivered has also mastered the path, and Black-fire.  And then the last-and-smallest, who had traveled the furthest to reach the gather-place of the…

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SSCS 01: Installment 23 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 23 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 23 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… “We must seek an orbit,” one of the other scouts replies.  She is greyer than the others.  She remembers the valley of the flowers as more than…

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SSCS 01: Installment 22 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 22 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 22 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… In the sand beside the snake, the bone-bleached feathers shift.  They scratch at the sand and sigh.  They whisper.  They hold a piece of the desert’s wind,…

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SSCS 01: Installment 21 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 21 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 21 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… “Can you hear those echoes still?”  Black-fire shakes the ice from her fur as her only means of shouting in this enforced near-silence.  “Can you follow the…

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