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:
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 – 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 – 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
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
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