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Introduce-the-Story Themes: SSCS01 – Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory

Introduce-the-Story Themes: SSCS01 – Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory

Anxious Disclaimer: Okay, so this post may likely come off as really self-involved.  But, well, this is a blog, and lots of blogs are pretty self-involved, almost by definition.  Also, I know perfectly well there will be lots more self-involved blog posts to come.  So, I’m hemming and hawing here at the top probably because this has to do with my writing, and writing has been a dream of mine for a really long time, and that makes it lots…

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Milestone! First Published Short Story!

Milestone! First Published Short Story!

So!  Did you catch that?  I just published a short story (technically, at just over 10,000 words, some people would call ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’ a novelette – but I’m not sure I’m ready to consider myself quite that fancy). Now, you might be asking: Published? Where? Answer: Here.  On my blog.  This really does count as publishing. Merriam-Webster defines ‘publish’ as “to disseminate to the public” (and it defines ‘disseminate’ as “to spread…

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SSCS 01: Installment 31 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 31 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 31 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 is made up of losses, and now they number in the thousands, in the tens of thousands.       That is enough. The desert is death, and…

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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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