The "Pumi in Sumeria" short stories tell of the later years in Pumi's life not detailed in the protohistoric novel, Tallstone and the City: A New Heaven and Earth. Pumi in Sumeria: Land Between the Rivers, tells of Pumi leaving Urfa after the death of his mate in search of meaning. He travels to the primitive land that will someday evolve into the great Sumerian civilization. Mythological origination stories are imagined for Sumerian primal goddess, Ninmah, and her consort, Sulpae, plus the many "demons" that occupy "the land between the rivers." This short story is part of the series The Beginning of Civilization: Short Stories available through Smashwords.com and other digital book resellers. These are adjunct stories to the six-novel saga The Beginning of Civilization: Mythologies Told True distributed in book form by Ingram Spark that imagine mankind's protohistory as inspired by the mythologies of Greece, Egypt, Canaan, and Phoenicia. Each stand-alone short story explores an element of one of the novels that was underdeveloped.