Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 6 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… “Well, whatever you do, it will have to pull the entire template into a unified whole.” Now she gestured to the other corners. One looked like it held nothing so much as bird-like footprints of…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 5 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… I finally got my mouth shut and my eyes turned away from staring, but by then the old woman was long gone. And I had less than no idea of what to do. A fish….
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 4 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… “Minister himself commissioned a new piece, and the last three girls they sent us jumped off the rail deck, one after the other, like they were reading from a script that said ‘suicide after tea.’ …
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 3 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 there was no roof, the factory – as much as I could see of it beyond high walls, both brick and smudged, dusty glass – open to the sky. There were no banyan trees. …
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About This is Installment 2 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… I was preoccupied then, too. I’d been sent away from the factory yesterday, the scarlet tunic I’d worn for the past three years taken away and handed to someone else. And now I was on…
Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About We are now live with Installment 1 of my next SSCS! (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 late August). This year’s story, ‘Those Monsters We Have Dreamed About,’ is definitely its own thing, distinct from those of the past two years. This time, I’ve gone…
I don’t really believe in ghosts. Or, more accurately, I think I believe that if ghosts exist, they do so in a way that’s just not relevant to me, that our worlds are completely separate, and that theirs does not affect mine. I’m pretty sure that’s what I believe. It can still be fun to indulge in a good ghost story on occasion. Especially around Halloween. Ghosts, and ghost stories, I think, have a way of connecting us very deeply…
Well, last week was the Final Installment of SSCS 02: How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters. I hope you found it an interesting ride! The next SSCS will start up next January. Although, as usual, SSCS 03 was written using the same approach as the first two SSCS’s, I feel like it came out feeling more intentional than either of those first two, and I’m looking forward to being able to share it with you. Although I won’t…