Category: Fiction
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The Ancient Greek Guide to Cheating Scandals
In this humorous retelling of Aphrodite’s affair with Ares, Arianna North Castell writes about the public spectacle surrounding the scandal and Aphrodite’s marriage to Hephaestus.
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The Millennium Clocktower: The Crypt
In the second instalment of this series, Freia Nilsson’s fictional piece considers the life of the Millennium Clocktower.
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The Millennium Clock Tower: Your Journey through the Past 1000 Years
Freia Nilsson writes the first of a five-part fiction series on the Millennium Clock Tower.
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Chopin – Summer in Scotland
Daisy Yip’s fictional piece reimagines the first two days of Chopin’s visit to Edinburgh.
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The Ancient Greek Guide to Creation (and a little beyond)
In this fiction piece, Arianna North Castell offers a quick-witted retelling of the creation of humanity, as understood in Greek mythology.
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Lilith: Mother of Demons, Wife of Adam
Abbie Teal tells a fictional retelling of the fall of Lilith who, according to Jewish mythology, was Adam’s first wife in the Garden of Eden.
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Undermined
Ailsa Fraser recreates the tense religious climate of sixteenth-century Scotland in this fictional imagining of Protestant martyrdom in St Andrews.
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A Coin for the Waterman
In this fiction piece by Ailsa Fraser, a young man scavenges a dead family’s riches from their home amidst the plague-stricken silence of London.
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