Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 4
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SSCS 04: Installment 4 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 4 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… They didn’t yet know this city or its people, but that shouldn’t matter. Music always spoke, and in the hands of a half-djinn—in the hands of Du…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 3
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where the sky has been very wintry even though the ground remains bare.)
fly-by-posting 2026/01/19
Oiy. My hips are so tired and sore from a day of couch shopping. But then, I do seem to have reached an age where shopping injuries are now a thing.
SSCS 04: Installment 3 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 3 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… “Here, San.” She plucked at San’s sleeve who’d sat on the other side of her, and pulled him back toward the back wall, pressing an ear against…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 2
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where snow came to visit, at least for a short stay.)
SSCS 04: Installment 2 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 2 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… Though today they had walked the full spans of twenty-two bridges, now they were brought to a stand-still, their purpose pulling them, but no openings marked out…
20 Questions as of January 7th 2026
Hello! and happy 2026! I have just had a nice, long Christmas vacation, and it is amazing how nice everything seems when one is rested. Last year about this time I did a 20 Questions post, made up as a new style of post for me because my brain was just about the consistency of luke-warm soup and I was out of oomph for writing entertaining words. Now, a year later, I think I am slowly starting to recover my…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2026 week 1
See Previous | See Next This week in my garden. (Where things are again warm and dry, dry, dry.)
SSCS 04: Installment 1 of 34
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress Installment 1 of my next SSCS is now up! (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 mid August). This year’s story, ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress,’ is, as per usual, a new stand-alone story, separate from (and unlike) those that have come before….