Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 16 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… But then I came around the screens to where my tablet was and found Elka still there, hunched and sitting on my stool, and staring up at the great slab of a thing. “There’s hole…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 15 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… The air seemed clean and new, but I was afraid that if I breathed in too deep I’d smell the salt and some indefinable darkness hiding underneath. We’d seen something rushing by in the rain. …
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 14 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 then another went by, just as quick. By now, the dread was such a hard knot in my belly, that I didn’t even realize I was squeezing Jack’s hand tight in my own until…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 13 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… Once I’d got my footing steadier, I finally looked up, to find we’d reached the end of the Factory wall and that the cross-avenue here was broad and straight, maybe straight enough to see all…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 12 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… Before I could protest my confusion, or that I didn’t even know where Jack worked in this maze of workshops and screens, she raised her voice to a level that was too thin to be…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 11 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… My hands still ached from my blisters, the skin of my palms stiff and tender, but all still strong beneath. I stood up. And finally looked up at the tablet for my bell half-template. There…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 10 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… But there was something faintly brighter on the street just beyond the factory wall, too. First it just seemed a paler shadow, but then as my eyes grew used to the night it seemed to…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 9 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… “Have you dreamed what it’s meant to be already?” she asked. I paused, feeling the weight of it behind me, then I shook my head, managing not to shudder. “Not…yet.” I didn’t tell her about…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 8 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… Those hands were meant to go around a lantern. I could see the shape of where it wasn’t yet and had started yesterday, very clumsily, to try to mold out the form of it on…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 7 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… The brick of this wall was also crumbling, and out of the gaps – nearly every one I could see – there sprouted little, yellow dandelions, scraggly, with ragged, toothy leaves and bright, soft flowers….