Raghnall stirred as something cool stroked his cheek. Groaning, he turned away, patted his pillow and buried his face, determined to sleep some more. However he had scarcely settled when a gust of cold air rudely tumbled down the back of his neck, rippling the bed sheets. Sitting upright with a start, he saw that... Continue Reading →
Chapter.2: ‘Raghnall’
Expecting to see a person in the portal, the stranger looked back to the door but there was no one immediately apparent. What could be seen was the hallway beyond. The floor stretched out like a game board as he entered, diamonds of black and white stone, leading to a black staircase furnished in a... Continue Reading →
Chapter.1: Ravensholme
Flames licked at the leather bound books, feeling their way to rolled parchment and ancient knowledge. Oaken shelves collapsed all about, spluttering into the inferno. Stray pages floated on the updraft only to be singed and brought crashing down with flaming beams. The shiny black stone from which the archive walls were hewn shimmered like... Continue Reading →
A Daft Idea | Midwinter Moot 2025
Author: P. Molnar, Word Count: 2,072 Featured in Midwinter Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Twixtmas 2025 The thing he had feared the most had come to pass. A whiteout. And early evening was setting in. In the current conditions, he could barely see where he was headed. But he kept pulling his smaller sled,... Continue Reading →
The Sleeping Giant | Midwinter Moot 2025
Author: N. Friedline, Word Count: 12 Stanza Featured in Midwinter Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Twixtmas 2025 Just before I fall asleep I sometimes feel 100 feet larger than my snoozing room while dreams are coming soon In waking life my scale is set but in sleeping I may forget am I really one... Continue Reading →
The Christmas-Lights Mason Jar | Midwinter Moot 2025
Author: Marie. P, Word Count: 428 Featured in Midwinter Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Twixtmas 2025 In the end, my grandmother kept a glass jar on her kitchen counter. It was filled with a single string of Christmas lights coiled around itself, with scarcely enough space to distinguish each individual light. Gone were the... Continue Reading →
The Tree on the Estate | Midwinter Moot 2025
Author: Michelle Franklin, Word Count: 1,550 Featured in Midwinter Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Twixtmas 2025 The sun from the window warmed the side of her face, and Maedlynn was persuaded to open her eyes at last. Lord Darren was standing over her, his grey eyes teeming slightly. “Winter mornings are second only to... Continue Reading →
Qilak | Midwinter Moot 2025
Author: G. Gleason, Word Count: 984 Featured in Midwinter Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Twixtmas 2025 We'd had an old house up in the north in our younger days, my wife and I. We kept it, but moved south to have kids. Perhaps, we thought, they wouldn't want the wilderness for a nursemaid. it... Continue Reading →
LETTER TO SANTA | Midwinter Moot 2025
Author: Rita Pomade, Word Count: 270 Featured in Midwinter Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Twixtmas 2025 Dear Mr. Santa Claus there are things you’ve got to know Before you rev up your old sleigh to ride the winter snow The world is in a frightful mess, and Covid’s here to stay So here are... Continue Reading →
Little Flower’s Mother (A Bonus Alex Adventure) | Hallowe’en 2025
Author: D.Irving, Word Count: 666 Written for, but missed and so did not feature in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - 2025 Alex was getting annoyed, while the last few years working with Little Flower had been highly informative if not slightly controversial, many of his colleagues now considered him to be insane rather... Continue Reading →
