Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 4
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SSCS 03: Installment 4 of 35
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 4 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… “Minister himself commissioned a new piece, and the last three girls they sent us jumped off the rail deck, one after the other, like they were reading from a script that said ‘suicide after tea.’ …
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 3
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (We’ve had a lovely, proper snowfall!)
fly-by-posting: 2025/01/17
There was a squirrel in my parking spot when I got in this morning. Somehow he looked guilty as he looked up and slunk/scurried away. What could he have been up to? Meanwhile, the hordes of geese managed to be picturesque this afternoon – flying through a lowering, twilit snowfall will do that it seems.
SSCS 03: Installment 3 of 35
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 3 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 there was no roof, the factory – as much as I could see of it beyond high walls, both brick and smudged, dusty glass – open to the sky. There were no banyan trees. …
20 Questions as of January 15th 2025
Although I’d like to and intend to post something new and regular-blog-post-like to this blog on a semi-regular basis, sometimes I go for stretches where I seem to have lost access to any extra brain cells, especially the ones needed for coming up with anything even vaguely resembling ‘new.’ In fact, lately, I’ve been hovering near the borders of just such a state. And so, I’ve come up with an idea! What sort of prompt might require not very many…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 2
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where it is cold, but not really snowy.)
SSCS 03: Installment 2 of 35
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 2 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… I was preoccupied then, too. I’d been sent away from the factory yesterday, the scarlet tunic I’d worn for the past three years taken away and handed to someone else. And now I was on…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2025 week 1
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where we had the beauty of hoarfrost for an amazing three days.)
SSCS 03: Installment 1 of 35
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About We are now live with Installment 1 of my next SSCS! (That stands for Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Story, which is something you can find out more about here.) I’ll be putting out a new installment once each week, on Friday, until the story is done (around about late August). This year’s story, ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About,’ is definitely its own thing, distinct from those of the past two years. This time, I’ve gone…