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Stories of floods appear in most ancient mythologies, manifested as apocalyptic events caused by a God or gods. The Mesoamericans, Chinese, ancient Greeks and Scandinavians all suffered the wrathful storms of a vengeful deity. Human civilisation grew around river systems, with the Amazon, Indus, Nile-Kagera, Yellow River and Yangtze, and the Kızılırmak bearing some of the earliest, as humankind wrestled …
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 Gilgamesh, but their significance is great because they hold voices from the ancient past, further back than the Greeks of Homer, the Tanakh of …
Every night, just before she went to bed, the little girl opened the secret drawer. Inside, the creature stirred: things were about to change. Another short fantasy story from Jake Jackson’s These Fantastic Worlds.
Trapped in the ancient standing stones the eternal deity awaits the end of his punishment, for the first time in 26,000 years! New micro-fiction and podcast from Jake Jackson’s These Fantastic Worlds.