Historical Stories

An alternate history of what might have happened to the fabled Lost Colony of Roanoke, narrated by teenaged colonist John Sampson.

This is a teaser to my WW2 novella "Colette", which requires premier membership. The complete novella is also on Bookapy. Note the trigger warnings - but most triggers are off-screen.

Darla walks out on her date and into trouble.

The frontier knows her as a lady of quiet charm and sky-bright eyes. What it doesn’t know is the steel beneath her smile. When Mia Lang rides a stagecoach across bandit country, fate—and the Barton brothers—put her courage to the test. In a land where kindness is scarce and survival costs blood, one woman learns that even the softest voice can command fear.

In this Revolutionary War tale, our hero has to do a bit of killing before he can enjoy the girl.

A fictional story about four men trekking overland to the 1898 Klondike gold rush. One of them commits an unforgiveable crime.

Young man learning all about the rules of the game and finding out how to break them without getting caught.

Fourteen-year-old Italian Matteo finds himself orphaned in a remote Catholic medical and orphanage mission near mid-nineteenth-century Xi'an, China, and being used sexually by the Jesuit doctor in charge of the mission as well as the other priests. Having heard of the beautiful European boy, the Warlord in Xi'an arrives to sample his charms himself. He does so as a conqueror before learning just how charming the boy is.