Author: J.Armstrong, Word Count: 666 Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - 2025 Dr. Misfortunato is a boastful, egotistical, malevolent man who has created a vasttrove of publications, holds a prestigious seat as a grand poohbah of a professor, andabove all has been granted tenure - everything I hate in a man. Whereas... Continue Reading →

Author: Rhys Booth, Word Count: 648 Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - 2025 By the time Dr. Julian Barkman’s trowel scraped against the blackened soil, the wind hadstopped. The desert around him, moments ago hissing with dust, fell still as a tomb. He toldhimself it was nothing—just the night drawing its breath.... Continue Reading →

Author D.Irving, Word Count 1,235 Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - 2025 Alex returned to the site a couple of weeks early, things had changed over the winterand he would no longer be running it on his own or digging, the last chafed more thanthe first because as Site Director he was... Continue Reading →

Author: P. Molnar, Word Count: 725 Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - 2025 Email Correspondence between director of a regional museum and a local lady... 28 September"Dear Ms. Varga,I’ve decided to update you on what’s new regarding the hoard found in your garden earlier thisweek. I’d like to once again thank you... Continue Reading →

Author: Michelle Franklin, Word Count: 536 Words Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - 2025 “I am very sorry to tell you,” the doctor began gravely, “but your uterus has gone.” Rita sat up, half expecting the doctor to tell her that she had an alien living inside her. This was somehow worse.... Continue Reading →

Author: G. Gleason, Word Count 666 WordsFeatured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - 2025 When all is said and done, blame me.  "At least she left me with the leash," I was saying as we  passed the mouth of the alley. It was me and (now) my incredibly  overfed ginger pekingese. The dog... Continue Reading →

Author: Michelle Franklin, Word Count: 1,355Featured in Midwinter Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Twixtmas 2024 A great many things kept happening, some of them good, some of them Myndil. Despite what some people might have implied in the past, Myndil was not the harbinger of bad news; it was only that if he appeared... Continue Reading →

Author: G. Gleason, Word Count: 984Featured in Midwinter Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Twixtmas 2024 Smithson is the name one of my ancestors gave him. He's uttered his real one but once in mypresence. It is an agglutinated series of growls and barks, vaguely approaching the vicinity ofalmost sounding like "Smithson", so I accept... Continue Reading →

Author: S. Suppes, Word Count: 266Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - 2024 My dear friend and colleague,Perhaps you could examine the tablet enclosed in this box? It appears to be a letterwritten by a son to his father pertaining to their trading business. It dates to the OldAssyrian Period. I have written... Continue Reading →

Author: N. Friedline, Word Count: 666Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - 2024A wooden figurehead, carved in the shape of a drowned woman, sways in the darkness at the bottom of the sea. Circled by fish in a macabre ballet, its serene face gazed into the abyss. Her ankles bound with ropes festooned with seaweed,... Continue Reading →