SSCS 03: Installment 10 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 10 of 35

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…

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SSCS 03: Installment 9 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 9 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 9 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… “Have you dreamed what it’s meant to be already?” she asked. I paused, feeling the weight of it behind me, then I shook my head, managing not to shudder.  “Not…yet.”  I didn’t tell her about…

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SSCS 03: Installment 8 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 8 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 8 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… Those hands were meant to go around a lantern.  I could see the shape of where it wasn’t yet and had started yesterday, very clumsily, to try to mold out the form of it on…

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fly-by-posting: 2025/02/17

fly-by-posting: 2025/02/17

They painted the plane orange! and then very green and gooey, like something out of Ghost Busters. Then the landing gear proceeded to cackle menacingly as we took off. (My daughter says the plane is now French.)

SSCS 03: Installment 7 of 35

SSCS 03: Installment 7 of 35

Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 7 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 brick of this wall was also crumbling, and out of the gaps – nearly every one I could see – there sprouted little, yellow dandelions, scraggly, with ragged, toothy leaves and bright, soft flowers….

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