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SSCS 01: Installment 13 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 13 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 13 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… There is no frog-song.  But there is bewitchment in the scent of this thing that has been lost for so long.  Beneath the leaves of ruby-petaled flowers,…

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SSCS 01: Installment 12 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 12 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 12 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 far away.  Far, far away.  The desert draws back from the valley by a breath, by the thickness of a millimeter and the width of a…

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SSCS 01: Installment 11 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 11 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 11 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 another sound sings across the plain.  That sheet of swirling rocks that has neither up nor down but only inward shudders once in time with…

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SSCS 01: Installment 10 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 10 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 10 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 she will arrow toward it.  She will meet it at that place they all must come, now that the beacon has called them.  And as she…

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SSCS 01: Installment 9 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 9 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 9 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, all at once, the starlight within her cries out, seems to take a deep breath in, while the star-black sky beats down at her, shouting. …

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SSCS 01: Installment 8 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 8 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 8 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 so the third-returned scout dives free of the peak to fly home.  Home, home, home.  Her stick-thin bones may barely hold her, but it will be…

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SSCS 01: Installment 7 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 7 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 7 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… Now, when the wind howls upward, the heart of the beacon trembles, and shudders, and beats its first beat.  And the cold, desert wind is forced to…

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SSCS 01: Installment 6 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 6 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 6 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… Once the seating stone is placed, and prepared, then it must be fixed beneath a fine layer of blood.  This will be the heart of the beacon….

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SSCS 01: Installment 5 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 5 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 5 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 scout longs to rush homeward, to spread her stick-thin limbs and fly on the fastest wind that will take her.  But on her long-long journey, she…

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SSCS 01: Installment 4 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 4 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 4 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… She was only the second scout to come home.  There are seven others yet to return. …Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory Installment…

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