Words for the Anthropocene.
Eleusis, 2018 (C) Eleanna CastroianniPhoto showing a headless Greek statue and industrial area stretching behind. One of the reasons I started writing fiction in English was to share my country's little-known recent history. The world is well acquainted with ancient Greece, its myths and its inhabitants, as it is the civilization the West chose as …
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Yorgos Varlamos, Dead Bird and Cartridges, 1958 This short story first appeared in Fireside in 2020 and has just been reprinted by my dearest PodCastle. As with many of the things I write, it draws from real events in recent Greek history, so here's a little context. The Greek Junta 1967 - 1974 Post-WWII Greece …
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