Stories tagged “Cartography”

  • Pigeon Feathers

    The room was completely silent, except for the quiet scratching noise of a quill on paper. Bent over a massive wooden table sat an old man, carefully tracing line after line on a sheet of finest paper. With endless patience, his fingers drew continents...

  • Lost in Translation

    “What does this mean Carto?” someone yelled over the cacophony of sound that filled the hall. I smiled slightly. I had been hoping someone asked that question, a speech already prepared in my mind. “We were brought here for a reason t...