Daughter of Spiders

Daughter of Spiders is being posted in daily installments on the front page here at Skookworks. Because of the way web logs archive their material, the newest installments appear first when the entire collection is called up.

This page has been set up so that you can read the entries in chronological order:

1808 – An Ordinary Family

Spring 1810 – The Last of Leland Dix

Spring 1810 – Mother Spider’s Blessing

Spring 1810 – A Connoisseur of Clothing and Tragedy

Spring 1810 – Annie Loses a Pearl

Spring 1810 – Clearing a Snag

Spring 1810 – Years Late for the Duel

Spring 1810 – A Bedtime Tale from Norse Billy

Summer 1810 – A Favor for Honest Boris

Summer 1810 – Bull Tanner Makes a Mistake

Summer 1810 – Hunting the Blacktongue

Summer 1810 – A Bloody Cotillion

Autumn 1810 – The Sea Gives up Its Dead

Winter 1811 – A Flag of Forgotten Nations

Summer 1811 – Tenets of an Old Religion

Spring 1812 – The Nanny Thing

Spring 1812 – Mrs. Kindersley Has Guests for Tea

Summer 1812 – The Faithful Damned

Spring 1813 – The Endurance of Hate

Winter 1813 – As If From Pandora’s Treasure Chest

Spring 1814 – Inviting Devils to Dance

Spring 1814 – A Message from a Jumbahbe

Summer 1814 – Resentment Well Fed and Darkly Grown

Summer 1814 – Motherless Son

Winter 1814 – Riding on a Wind of Screams

Summer 1817 – Walking into the Heart of Sorrow

Summer 1817 – A Border Bleeding Night

Autumn 1817 – A Very Large Appetite

Autumn 1817 – Howling Like the Emptiest Heart in the World

Winter 1818 – Seven Graves to Fill

Summer 1818 – Jack o’ the Wasp and Early Corn

Summer 1818 – Dues for a Dead Empire

Autumn 1818 – A Mean and Angry Harvest

Summer 1820 – Mrs. Leeds Had Thirteen Children

Summer 1820 – Debating Civilized Behavior Whilst Standing in a Swamp

Autumn 1821 – An Old Reply, Finally Delivered

Spring 1823 – A Well Mannered Wayfarer

Spring 1823 – We Carry Our Kingdoms Lightly

Spring 1823 – Without Wings to Fly

Spring 1823 – Deeper Than Dreams

Spring 1823 – Flattery is Portable Currency

Spring 1823 – A City Beneath the Mountain’s Roots

Spring 1823 – Singing to Shape the World

Spring 1823 – Recently of Sunshine and Kentucky

Winter 1830 – Looking Past the Horizon

Winter 1832 – A Lock Awaiting a Key

Summer 1834 – Feathered Dog’s Last Hunt

Winter 1834 – A Ruthless Pursuit

Summer 1835 – Whispers from the Stone

Summer 1835 – Fleeing Before the Hounds

Summer 1835 – The Better to Look Ye in the Eye

Summer 1835 – Neither East nor South and Never to the West

Summer 1835 – Running to Catch the Trees

Summer 1835 – An Accidental Malignancy

Summer 1835 – The Cleric and the Twilight People

Summer 1835 – A Well Traveled Inheritance

Winter 1841 – The Enemy of Our Enemy

Autumn 1842 – Weaving New Curses With Elderly Fingers

Autumn 1842 – These Old Boards Remember Their Lives as Trees

Winter 1842 – The Better to Rise Above the Waves

Winter 1843 – Brothers Bonded By Circumstance

Spring 1844 – A New Life for the Dead

Spring 1844 – Waiting on His Mistress’ Whispers

Spring 1844 – A Glance of Ice, A Stare of Granite

Spring 1844 – The Warm Scent of Christian Blood

Spring 1844 – Running on Paws of Flame

Spring 1844 – A Lightning That Teaches Cold Meat to Stand

Spring 1844 – Aged Spirits and Fruiting Bodies

Spring 1844 – Mrs. Witgarden’s Uninvited Guest

Spring 1844 – Movement is Not a Test of Life

Spring 1834 – A Run Across the Sleeping City

Spring 1844 – The Seventh Homonculus

Summer 1844 – Too Much Knowledge, It Burns the Clouds and the Light Leaves You Blind

Summer 1844 – The Transition of Reginald Holland

Summer 1844 – Wedded to Emptiness

Summer 1844 – Singular in Creation

Autumn 1844 – The Watcher in the Duldrums

Winter 1844 – A Bloody Morning and a Hard Afternoon

Winter 1844 – A Question Unanswered

Winter 1844 – The Unrepentant Witness

Winter 1844 – A Beautiful Prison

Summer 1845 – Planted in Rich Soil and Fertilized with Abundant Resentment

Summer 1845 – Stand Not Close When Negotiating With Monsters

Summer 1845 – The Hanged Man’s Vengeance

Autumn 1845 – The Tale of the Rattlesnake and the Condor

Winter 1845 – The Hell of the Ball

Spring 1846 – The Sky, Black With Wings, From Horizon to Horizon

Spring 1846 – Abandoned in Haste and Fear

Summer 1846 – Dry as a Hangman’s Tears

Spring 1847 – The Second Coming of Revelation Gilstrap

Summer 1847 – The Eyes of Strangers Staring Back

Summer 1847 – To Build a Welcome Place of Resting

Winter 1867 – Dancing by the Black Moon’s Light

Spring 1868 – In the City of Burning Dreams

Summer 1868 – To Stand Without Hesitation

Summer 1868 – Between the Sky and the Sand

 Autumn 1868 – The Laughter of Insects

Spring 1869 – When Next the Cactus Blooms

Summer 1869 – The Blood of Stones Does Foul A Man’s Heart

Winter 1869 – The Whisperings of Yellow Silk, the Rattlings of Yellowed Bones

Spring 1870 – Seven Bullets for Returning

Spring 1870 – Jerome Thorton-Syme Proposes an Expedition

Summer 1870 – A March Upon the Red Emperor’s Road

Summer 1870 – Downward to the Eternal Sun

Summer 1870 – Where the Fish Have Learned to Walk

Summer 1870 – It Compensates for Its Lack of Grace by Sharpness of Its Teeth

Summer 1870 – Peace is the Inward Breath in the Life of War

2 Responses to Daughter of Spiders

  1. r4 3ds xl says:

    This was one of the best things I’ve ever seen.

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