Historical Stories

Re-examining an old folk-song.

It's supposed to be a poem, but it isn't really. It's a silly rhyme. Rude though. Hope you like it.

This story is dark, sad, and grim. But you know the saying about action and reaction. It's only fair to say that some of you will NOT like this. 'As he released himself deep inside me, spraying his seed hot and desperately within my body, I clenched him tightly, scratched my fingers across the back of his neck, and shuddered, nay, shook helplessly with release, screaming and crushing him hard against the wall.'

The coming of age ritual of the Ravenclaw tribe on the Colombia River was for a high chief or god to initiate four-teen-year-old candidates to be warrior scouts and then to turn them over to a warrior for training and seeding for four years. Ravenclaw's high chief sends out a search party to find a dark god to initiate his son, Pony Boy. They come back with the studly black slave, Jonas.

By 1920, the Chinese authorities in northeast China's Manchuria respond to the vast influx of White Russian refugees flowing into the city of Harbin, escaping the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, by disenfranchising the refugees, making them nonpersons. They are on their own to thrive or die. Beautiful, small fourteen-year-old boy Pyotr survives by selling himself to an auction house serving men with a boy fetish and unusual sexual tastes.

Bounty hunter Jacob Harding tracks down an escaped slave, fourteen-year-old Nat, from a Virginia plantation. He wonders why the plantation owner is offering such a high fee to get Nat back, but after Harding encounters the boy and finds out how he can be used, he doesn’t wonder anymore.

To the prehistory The young nurse Claire devotedly cared for injured soldiers during the Second World War and found peace in a constant married life with her husband Frank. During a vacation in Scotland she is transported back in time by stepping on a magical stone circle and lands in the year 1743. A chain of events forces her to marry the Scottish fighter Jamie. Emotions soon develop between the two and Claire is caught between her future life and the adventure of the 18th century. Season 2

"The ‘Spotted Lady’ tent went down very well last year," said the Colonel. "I thought it a bit feeble, personally, but it's amazing what a bit of exposed female flesh will do to bring in the money."

When the Emperor becomes obsessed with a “kingdom-wrecking” beauty, he loses first his empire then his consort—to his lasting regret … and hers. A prose retelling of the poem Cháng Hèn Gē (長恨歌) by Bai Jiyu.

This is an entry to Eddie Davidson's 4th of July story contest.