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 …
Micro-fiction 026 – Watery Grave
The remnants of an ancient civilization lurk beneath the waves and draw the diver down into the darkest layers of the sea, where the weird and the timeless collide. Another tale from These Fantastic Worlds.
Micro-fiction 025 – Southern Gothic (Echoes series)
Ghosts stalk the swamps as the past rises from the deep, with memories of shame and old dreams. Another tale from These Fantastic Worlds, by Jake jackson.
Micro-fiction 024 – Dark Blood (Echoes series)
Vampyres and humans have fought each other for centuries, but how can you defeat a creature who simply can not die? Another new story from Jake Jackson’s These Fantastic Worlds