Author: Michelle Franklin, Word Count: 993Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - 2024Winter happened. In most of the world, when leaves burn to gold and the sky singes with the smoke of autumn bonfires, the gift-givers of the world prepare for their descent. The change in the season brings them in, and though... Continue Reading →

Author: P. Molnar, Word Count: 2,278Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - 2024"Argh ! Would you look at this ?" groaned Medford, as she turned the newspaper towardsher colleague Edwin Kristensen, who had entered the office just half a minute ago. Shesmacked the front page with her palm.Archaeologists baffled ! proclaimed the banner... Continue Reading →

Author: G.Gleason, Word Count: 716Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - 2024BARTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 1928 The whitish puff that appeared out of the fog was not from frozen breath, but was theproduct of a White Owl cigar (3 for 20 cents!) The lumpen figure that smoked it was dressed in adrab greatcoat that looked... Continue Reading →

Author: D & M. Pearson, Word Count: 431Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - 2024It was a cold , frosty and dark night in January 1547. King Henry was stirred from his sleep by the gentle rustle of hushed footsteps seemingly circling his grand Hampton Court Palace bedchamber.  Henry slowly opened his eyes. Was it a... Continue Reading →

Author: G. Gleason, Word Count: 972Featured in Midwinter Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Christmas 2023Oliver was determined to spend Christmas at home.He'd carefully rebuffed coworkers offers of communal celebration. "I'm polishing thenumbers extra hard this year. All those new accounts…" Not a lie, so much as a careful arrangement tobe busy at all the... Continue Reading →

Author: Michelle Franklin, Word Count: 1,201Featured in Midwinter Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Christmas 2023Heaviness and density are not the same thing. Ice floats on water, collapsed stars hang of the cloth of infinity, and dashed hopes weigh down the most joyous of minds. Myndil was neither heavy nor dense; he operated on wishes,... Continue Reading →

Author: D. Irving, Word Count: 1,200Featured in Midwinter Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Christmas 2023The day had started well enough, clear blue skies with a pale sun had made the trip upalmost pleasant, Angus, his guide, had from time to time pointed out another cairn,disused mine or illicit still. Their destination was a newly... Continue Reading →

Author: Michelle Franklin, Word Count: 666Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Halloween 2023It is entirely possible for wights to have ghosts, and Ozzy the garden wight had one. Skeletons are only human by-products, Ozzy being bones possessed by sense, and his spirit being a shiftless layabout. From the approaching frigid pall, a ghost suddenly appeared. It was... Continue Reading →

Author: M. B-A, Word Count: 666Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Halloween 2023Charlotte was an archivist at a local museum. Occasionally the elders of the village bequeathed donations in their Wills. These artefacts were received with gratitude. After all they were beloved of the recently deceased, but they were also intriguing unknowns. Today's accession... Continue Reading →

Author: G. Gleason, Word Count: 666Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Halloween 2023Father brought it home, I remember, during the Stink, when the Thames itself rotted in highsummer, fueled by whatever corruption London's humanity might generate. It hung there in the hall. Itwatched Mother waste and die. We covered its face. We... Continue Reading →