The Mythic Circle

FICTION

• - Susan Shwartz, “Binding Off Loose Ends”
• - Ali Al Azzazi, “Red Hooded Jasper”
• - Philip Hettinger, “The Tower”
• - Robert Normandie, “All This Time”
• - J. Brice Odom, “The Coward of Ithaca”
• - Frank Booker, “Xenía”
• - Charlie Freelander, “Small Gods”
• - S. Dorman, “Jasper Mary”
• - Tawanda Nyahasha, “Let There Be Life”
• - Zac Walsh, “The Golden Brain”
• - Danielle Krikorian, “Máni’s Melancholies”
• - David Sparenberg, “A Page from Gandalf’s Notebook”
• - Youtao Cao, “Fifteen Years Later: Arthur Returns”
• - Anthony Starkiewicz, “The Sign in the Stone”
• - Don Smith, “Percival and the Quest for the Holy Grail”
• - Dorcy Jaffray, “Selkie”
• - Hari Blackmore, “This Holy Creature”
• - Kylie Bartley, “The Abyssal Curse”
• - Lee Zumpe, “The Wastes Beyond Nyothatha”
• - Susan Shwartz, “Hounded”

POEMS

• - Jacob Bier, “The World Beneath the Waves”
• - Rebecca Hyde Gonzales, “The Nightjar and the Souljar”
• - Simon MacCulloch, “Astronomy”
• - Mike Everley, “Cyhyraeth”
• - Nadia Hana Abraham, “The Lament of Orpheus”
• - Charlotte Krausz, “A Riddle”
• - Nicole Vickers, “The Many Faces of Persephone”
• - Daniel Rabuzzi, “In the Out-Text”
• - Brahim Bouras, “Bouchkara”
• - Jack Devoe, “A Short Sumerian Note”
• - AJ Dalton, “The Center of the Labyrinth”
• - Saad Kayani, “Erebus and the Man”

IMAGES
Artworks by:

• - Deborah A. Mills
• - Jessica Salmans Meditz
• - Hannah Plyler
• - Janet Brennan Croft
• - Steve Gaddis
• - Simeon Lindemann

Editors: Victoria Gaydosik, fiction; Nolan Meditz, poetry
Copyright © 2026 by The Mythopoeic Society; all rights revert to authors and artists.

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