Month: December 2025
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Sunday, 27 March 1977: A short story
The skies are grey and filled with the hum of jet engines. “Sunjet two-eighty-two, proceed directly to runway… backtrack and hold.” Every few seconds, the radio buzzes, bringing with it the crackle of another faceless voice. “Received, Sunjet two-eighty-two.”
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The Myth of Etana: A short story
To the East of an endless river, in the vast unknown, there is a city built of sand and stone. Great towers of chalk, carved from the mountains of Sumeria, stand proudly amidst desert plains, illuminated only by slivers of still moonlight. And when night falls within the city’s walls, it is said that the…
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Winter as a Human Challenge
Content written by the Educators Council team, originally published as the December 2025 Educators Newsletter. Image credits: Jacques Callot, L’Hiver (Winter), ca. 1610, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain. For most of human history, winter was the season that shaped communities more than any other. Cold, darkness, food scarcity and isolation meant that survival depended…
