Author: Michelle Franklin, Word Count: 777Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Halloween 2023Something lived in the lake, something beyond the usual residents. A boy was tossing rocks in and trying to coax the something out.                 Myndil thought he should help.                 “HAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Myndil shouted. “YES—I DON’T MEAN TO TELL YOU HOW TO SKIP STONES, BUT—”                 The boy tossed a stone.... Continue Reading →

Author: N. Friedline, Word Count: 666Featured in Spooky Archaeological Story Moot: Live Stream - Halloween 2023A rusted dagger plunges into the flesh of a wild beast spilling viscera onto the sand. Blood pools in the dust, shaped by tiny hands into a torrid red clay. It was the first year the oasis had lasted through the Summer. Rushes growing in the small pool of muddy water attracted creatures from across the endless... Continue Reading →

Author: Michelle Franklin, Word Count: 624Featured in Spooky Archaeological Tales: Live Stream - BonFire Night 2022Death is something everyone has to do at sometime or other, but the service to the Lords of the Otherworld need not be that terrible; it offers the chance of being undead, which is rather pleasant much of the time.... Continue Reading →

Author: N. Friedline, Word Count: 666Featured in Spooky Archaeological Tales: Live Stream - BonFire Night 2022A mapmaker paced along the shore of a tropical island. Each footstep in the sand marked on vellum with a quill of red ink. This was the last and most isolated island in a vast archipelago to be charted for the King who wished to see the edge of the world. After three months of... Continue Reading →

Author: S. Suppes, Word Count: 666Featured in Spooky Archaeological Tales: Live Stream - BonFire Night 2022Normally, the ghosts aren’t helpful. It’s not their fault. Time has driven so many mad,they rage against the bonds that keep them here and eventually fall into despair. They stopnoticing the passage of time. Some eventually shake out of the... Continue Reading →

Author: Michelle Franklin, Word Count: 666Featured in Spooky Archaeological Tales: Live Stream - BonFire Night 2022The horse titupped across the country, its burning hooves lighting the way, the armour having little idea what was happening, hearing the wind whistle through its hollows. It seemed gleeful, the breeze tickling the inside of its breastplate, its horse making delightful clops. The flaming skull under its arm was also smiling, but having... Continue Reading →

Author: J. Armstrong, Word Count: 666Featured in Spooky Archaeological Tales: Live Stream - BonFire Night 2022The sun set as a line of pelicans skimmed the water. The light on OcracokeIsland glimmered in the distance and the eery soda bottle whistle of a buoy couldbe heard as gentle waves rippled. Ed and I borrowed a comfortable,... Continue Reading →

Author: Mrs Prestwich, Word Count: 666Featured in The Spooky Archaeological Tales: Live Stream - Halloween 2021 It was early evening when dark, grey, thunderous clouds were building on the horizon as Emily set out to do her chores in the sorghum field. As she  saddled her coal black mare the wind whipped around the corner... Continue Reading →

Author: N. Friedline, Word Count: 666Featured in The Spooky Archaeological Tales: Live Stream - Halloween 2021  I walked along a wooded path, the trees twisted and gnarled by the western wind. It was deep in the continent where no ocean would ever reach and only a few scattered settlements remained. Things grew old here.                 The path began to narrow, just as the villages warned. The once vibrant forest was now... Continue Reading →

Author: E. Winter, Word Count: 666Featured in The Spooky Archaeological Tales: Live Stream - Halloween 2021 “So you’re saying it’s not a temple to Odin.” “No, it’s an Anglo-Saxon site, so they would have been worshipping Woden if they were pre-Christian. There’s no reason to think it was a temple, and anyway, the date is... Continue Reading →