Historical Stories

Guido Sarto-Reutter is a fourteen-year old son of a Venetian-Austrian aristocratic family, that, in 1920, is both in poverty and riddled by scandal because both Guido's father and grandfather have, for years, been bedded by a Vienna baron in his castle. Guido is in a Venetian charity school for sons of families in straits like his run by a count who is pimping the boys. Guido has no trouble falling in with this demand, and the count has found a possible buyer for the boy.

A story in the Dark Tales Universe
Terry had been alone and single for most of her adult life. Then new neighbors move into the house next door and her life will never be the same again.

Fourteen-year-old mulatto slave boy Sweet barely settles into the rice plantation, Riverside, up the Cooper River from Charleston, before his new master is dealing him to Charleston gambling house and male brothel owner Chance Drake to pay off a gambling debt.

Life was tough in the scratch-earth mountain valleys of the Colorado Rockies in the years following the Civil War. They were unbearable when the father of a small family had died—and even more so when the wife is Lakota and the son a half-breed. But the fourteen-year-old son, Cigala—Little One—is beautiful and sexually desirable to men. Where there is such an opportunity, there is always a way.

Dorset, 1922. Farrier Eric Gange has survived the Great War and returned home determined to make his beloved wife Ada happy. But Ada's heart belongs to adventure stories, silent-film heroes and impossible romances. When "Sheik Mania" sweeps the country, Eric devises an extraordinary plan to turn fantasy into reality—with consequences far beyond anything either of them imagined.

A noble lady contemplates suicide until a stranger at a wayside inn reminds her that life can be sweet.

A young Native American girl meets a white man for the first time.

A Historical-Firsts Story
Anne had waited almost two years for this wedding. Now she would be married to John Evans and mistress of the finest plantation in hte county. But was she ready for the obligations marriage entailed?

A Echoes from the past Story
Part of the Jim Priest universe
Young Jim meets the girl of his dreams but she’s not what she seems when she beats up the basketball team to save him from a beating.