Black Sea Deluge - A Flood Myth Short Story: The Historic Noah Flood Series, #1

By Lisa Shea

Historic Copper Age Exploration of the Traditional Noah Flood Story / 18 pages

Ku-aya led a joyful life with her parents and her three younger brothers. Her days were spent tending to the fields of wheat, watching over the herd of sheep, and dancing along the banks of the salt-river which ran through the center of her beautiful sprawling village. Every dawn brought new blessings from the Sky Father above.

But The Striker, god of storms and change, could have a callous streak. With each passing year the salt-river grew ever wider, dividing their town into halves. And there were those who whispered that this was just a harbinger of a greater ill to come ...

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Black Sea Deluge is the first book in my short story series set in the Black Sea region during the Copper Age - around 5,600 BC. The stories retell the Noah Flood myth from a historical perspective. These short stories are about 15 pages each. The Noah Flood series contains no violence, no swearing, and no intimacy, so they are suitable for teens and up. 

You can read the books one-by-one as they are released, or you can read the boxed sets. The boxed sets are compiled immediately after reaching each 10-book milestone. It's your choice! Some readers enjoy giving feedback as I write while others would rather binge-read in blocks.

Half of all author's proceeds benefit battered women's shelters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lisa Shea
• Release date: Mar 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386641858

Lisa Shea

I love writing in a variety of genres. I currently have over 300 books published in all lengths from full 500+ page novels down to short stories. I love writing series. Some are with unconnected characters, like the 14 full-length medieval novels with a sword being passed from heroine to heroine. Some have connected characters, like the 31 mini-mysteries featuring a detective in Salem, Massachusetts. All of my books are written "clean" with no explicit intimacy, no harsh language, and no explicit violence. All are suitable for teens and up. For a full listing of my books please visit: http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/writing/gettingyourbookpublished/lisalibrary.html

Book preview

Preface

I have amassed quite a lot of information on early Copper Age culture which I’m loading onto my website. To summarize, while childhood was challenging, healthy adults could and did live to age sixty and beyond. Depending on the specific region, women would typically marry between 14 and 18, although that is just most – there were many reasons women (or their families) made other choices. Men were typically a few years older when they wed.

The prevalent belief system was in a pantheon of nature gods.

Feel free to ask with questions – and enjoy!

Half of all proceeds benefit battered women’s shelters.

-- Lisa

Chapter One

More dependence must be placed on facts

than on reasonings, which must agree with facts.

-- Aristotle

The Black Sea Basin, 5600BC

Ku-aya sprawled on the ground by the edge of the salt-river ford, crying as if her very soul would shatter into a million tiny pieces. Around her echoed the tense muttered conversation of her villagers. Her father’s voice, deep and gruff, was in counterpoint to the chorus of his two younger brothers. Her mother’s hand stroked her long hair in even sweeps. In nearly all of Ku-aya’s eight long years of life that would