How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 32 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… When she was finally able to make her body stop shaking and shuddering, Mina found that, in the meantime, gran-Tom had called up a quiet song to fill the emptiness. It…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 31 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… The First Hum stretched and stretched, and somehow the waves seemed to move slower, and slower, as though their song was asking the sea itself to pause. Then gran-Tom nodded, and…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 30 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 the jangling stopped. “How much longer do you want me doing this, gran-Tom?” That was Hedwin, who was slouched down on a crate placed across from the entrance into the…
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 29 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… Which was why it took her far too long to realize that she smelled roses. By the time she did realize it, it was too late; one of gran-Tom’s tentacles was…
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.”…