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SSCS 01: Installment 3 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 3 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 3 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… Their scouts left home more recently, perhaps only five-hundred years.  Their scouts know that their valley is circled now by a vast, sandy desert.  Their scouts know…

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SSCS 01: Installment 2 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 2 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 2 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… They fill the valley rim-to-rim.  A carpet of amethyst and ruby.  And they wait for their bees.  Or they wait for their scouts to come home. …Because…

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SSCS 01: Installment 1 of 31

SSCS 01: Installment 1 of 31

Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is the first installment of my first SSCS, which stands for Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Story. I’ll say a little bit about this story-type of mine in a future post. For right now, you should just know: a) I’ll be putting out each (quite short) installment once each week, on Friday, until the story is done. (Sometime around July or August?) b) The SSCSs are all somewhat free-form and experimental, and…

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