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Myths & Stories

Feeding From the Fire Below by Kate Walters (|Issue 6)

What kinds of stories can help us find our bearings in times of loss and disorientation? Dark Mountain began with the claim that the roots of today’s crises lie in the stories we have been telling ourselves, but out of this grows the hope that the telling of stories might also have a part to play in how we find ways through.

Among the crew that gathers around this project, you’ll find novelists, mythographers, playwrights, anthropologists and campfire storytellers. One of the things we share is a sense that stories are more than entertainment, that they are how humans make sense of the world, maybe even that the world itself is made of stories.

I am Taliesin

Sophie McKeand
29th March, 2017
Bum yn lliaws rith kyn bum disgyfrith I was in a multitude of forms before...
Myths & StoriesThe Mythos We Live By

The Walk of the Moon

Joanna Hruby
23rd March, 2017
It’s a warm afternoon in late May, and a small crowd gathers on a circular...
Myths & StoriesThe Mythos We Live By

The Black Snake and the Row of Flags

Ben Mali Macfadyen
16th March, 2017
Shadows draped the tattered canvas of ‘Wounded Knee Kitchen’. Sodden figures, sheltering from the blizzard...
Myths & StoriesThe Mythos We Live By

Riding the Back of the Bear-King

Sylvia Linsteadt
9th March, 2017
An essay about storytelling and belonging from our series 'The Mythos We Live By'
Myths & StoriesThe Mythos We Live By

The Mythos We Live By: Uncolonising Our Imagination

Charlotte Du Cann
2nd March, 2017
In the coming six weeks as spring approaches, we will be looking at several ‘uncivilised’...
Myths & StoriesThe Mythos We Live By

The Man in the Tower

Manuar Smith
27th September, 2016
‘The Man in the Tower’ is part of a web of stories that depict the...
Myths & Stories

Last, or Earworms in the Wilderness

Shelah Horvitz
5th September, 2016
Edges are where things get interesting. They are where transitions happen — or don’t happen —...
Myths & StoriesOther Kingdoms

The Listening Post

Christy Rodgers
18th July, 2016
'I don’t remember how old I was when I was taught to tend the listening post...' A dispatch from an arid future.
Myths & Stories

Beast

Paul Kingsnorth
9th July, 2016
My second novel, Beast, was published this week by Faber and Faber. It’s the story of a...
Myths & Stories

The Hungingo Hunters

Annemarie Opmeer
21st May, 2016
‘Mike, how long is the drive?’ A German girl asks the driver. Linda or Linnet...
Myths & Stories

Parable del Payaso

Nadia Lucia Peralta
29th April, 2016
 The night before was chaotic, and the owl who sits in the church arches stared down...
From Our BooksIssue 9Myths & Stories

A Distant Tower

Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick
19th April, 2016
from ‘100 Stories of the Drowning World’ The station (if I might dignify it so)...
From Our BooksIssue 9Myths & Stories

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