Modern Artists: Barry Windsor Smith
Icarus © Barry Windsor Smith 1981 The fine art and graphic illustrations of Barry Windsor Smith (BWS) carry an aching beauty. Every line is lovingly crafted, every colour is imbued with care and...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 001 – Eagle (Echoes series)
https://thesefantasticworlds.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/001-eagle-03.mp3 Here’s an intriguing story from the end of the universe, a mash-up of Native American, ancient Babylonian and Australian...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 014 – Henge (Echoes series)
https://thesefantasticworlds.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/014-henge.mp3 Trapped in the ancient standing stones the eternal deity awaits the end of his punishment, for the first time in 26,000 years…...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 021 – Hoshiko (Echoes series)
https://thesefantasticworlds.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/021-hoshiko.mp3 Every night, just before she went to bed, the little girl opened the secret drawer. Inside, the creature stirred: things were...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 001 – Eagle (Echoes series)
Here’s an intriguing story from the end of the universe, a mash-up of Native American, ancient Babylonian and Australian Aboriginal mythology. Eagle watches the fires at the edge of the universe as...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 014 – Henge (Echoes series)
Trapped in the ancient standing stones the eternal deity awaits the end of his punishment, for the first time in 26,000 years… Echoes | Henge The exile was close to its end. For almost 26,000 years...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 021 – Hoshiko (Echoes series)
Every night, just before she went to bed, the little girl opened the secret drawer. Inside, the creature stirred: things were about to change… Echoes | Hoshiko Hoshiko’s mother finished reading the...
View ArticleSources | Babylonian Flood Tale
Over the four week period in 2017 I took on a task of retelling the story of the Babylonian Flood. There are three fragmentary stories, the most famous of which is embedded within the myth of...
View ArticleSources | The Great Deluge | Introduction
Stories of floods appear in most ancient mythologies, manifested as apocalyptic events caused by a God or gods. The Mesoamericans, Chinese, ancient Greeks and Scandinavians1 all suffered the wrathful...
View ArticleSources | The Great Deluge | Retold
The Ancient Sumerian and Babylonian Myth of Apocalypse, from the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Dream of Atrahasis and the Eridu Genesis. Retold by Jake Jackson. The Great Deluge: Beginnings Enlil, Fategiver,...
View ArticleSources | Celtic Myths | Origins
We reach for the Celts through the parchments of Christian monks1, and Greek 2 and Roman historians 3 but still we grasp at phantoms of truth. The mythic invasions, cycles of life and death, war and...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 037 – Break Out (Post-Apocalypse series)
Moloch and Gadreel lead the last vestiges of humanity in their escape from deep underground. But now they can break out, should they? Break Out “From the Beginning Times after the Fall there is a...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 049 – Discoveries (Post-Apocalypse series)
Discoveries at two ends of history and civilisation determine very similar futures. A journey into space takes a unexpected turn. Discoveries 2040 saw the first mission to the solar system around...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 050 – Custodian of Giants (Echoes series)
Akycha falls through to a hidden cave, on an Alaskan mountain-top. There, she discovers ancient giants, a custodian and time distorted. Custodian of Giants Alaska. Mount Sanford. Akycha ignored her...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 052 – The Blacksmith and the Stars (Origins series)
In the Hebrides, the Storyteller settles in at dusk to tell the ancient tale of the Blacksmith and the Stars. The Blacksmith and the Stars “Let me tell you an ancient tale.” The Storyteller, with the...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 059 – Ritual Renewal (Echoes series)
The warriors, elders and children are gathered for the annual ritual of renewal for one last time… Ritual Renewal Deep in the forest of their birth, protected by both bogs and guile the tribe gathered...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 061 – Human Nature (Echoes series)
(continued from One – Insurrection) The revolt on planet Koi Beta has prompted the debate about its future in the Galactic Council of Seven. The discussion moves on to “What is Human Nature?” Two –...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 078 – Lapis Lazuli (Echoes series)
From ancient Sumeria, a tale about the eternal Lapis Lazuli, a tomb and a thief, an unbeliever whose only god is greed… Lapis Lazuli It is the dead of night, some hundred years after the great floods...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 079 – Guardian Angel (Echoes series)
I look up into the stars with the gentle sounds of breathing next to me, so why does it make me feel so sad? Guardian Angel I It is dark in this pre-Dawn, with distant light filtering through, mingling...
View ArticleMicro-fiction 096 – The Green Man (Myths series)
A tale of an ancient spirit, a ruined planet, of loss and grief, but hope renewed in the Green Man… The Green Man. I remember the berry. It has a greenish, red hue. I’m not sure what it is except a...
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