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 & 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.
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...
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'
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’...
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...
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 —...
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.
Beast
Paul Kingsnorth
9th July, 2016
My second novel, Beast, was published this week by Faber and Faber. It’s the story of a...
The Hungingo Hunters
Annemarie Opmeer
21st May, 2016
‘Mike, how long is the drive?’ A German girl asks the driver. Linda or Linnet...
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...
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)...
Where is Pyotr Zhukov?
Robin Jones
6th April, 2016
Today a guard asks, ‘Where is Pyotr Zhukov?’ There is no answer. The guard asks...