Fiction: the last grain at Marrow Harbour
An invented Atlantis-inspired port confronts a practical question: whose grain goes uphill first?
Four Shores
Four imagined island societies, built around real constraints: water, weather, food, distance and the sea.
Invented worldbuilding. These stories do not establish that Atlantis or any other lost nation existed. Each has a separate companion explaining the evidence and the inventions. Fiction is recorded separately from factual references.
Atlantis and the imagined Marrow Harbour
Atlantis: the evidence, and the harbour we invented
Plato supplies a powerful story. Geology supplies constraints. Neither supplies evidence for our fictional Marrow Harbour.
Beringia and the Lantern Shoals
Fiction: the house beam at Lantern Shoals
At an invented camp on a changing Beringian coastline, a family argues over what will fit in the boat.
Beringia was real; the Lantern Shoals compact is fiction
A submerged landscape can be documented without inventing a lost nation or replacing the histories of living peoples.
Indian Ocean and the Glasswater League
Fiction: a second landing for Glasswater
An invented harbour clerk records a week in which rebuilding the market becomes everybody's business.
Mauritia belongs to deep time; Glasswater belongs to fiction
Ancient continental crust, real Indian Ocean trade and an explicitly invented island league operate on very different timelines.
Eastern Pacific and the Windward Ledger
Fiction: the voyage that brought only water
On an invented island east of Polynesia, the least celebrated voyage turns out to be the one that matters.
East of Polynesia: a small invented island, with real limits
Freshwater, reef geology and carrying capacity can shape an imagined Pacific society without inventing a lost continent.