Historical Stories

In a traveling freak show, a woman called the Shattered Woman is displayed as a medical curiosity—silent, broken, and watched. As crowds come and go, her presence quietly unsettles the boundaries between spectacle and humanity.

Set in the 1500s a Man known as the Sardar is travelling with 19 year old Heer and 23 year old Priya. They join a trade caravan to cross the Rajasthan Desert and this is what they get up to.

WWII has ended. Colonel Robert Hogan and his men prepare to return to their homelands. The white Russian Marya is accounted for, as is "Nimrod."

Oh, to be rich and well placed in Victorian society. It was the best of times, unless you were a woman.

Fourteen-year-old Jim Caldwell's father apprenticed his second son to go to sea as cabin boy to the HMS Royal Sovereign's captain, Sir Edmund Doman, with the best intentions of giving his son a future in the British Navy in the waning years of the eighteenth century. Little did he or Jim know what a "sailors' poke" was and how that would apply to Jim.

Male-perspective bisexual: In the hippie "everything goes" music world of the mid 1960s, Chad floats along sexually at Washington, D.C.'s, Cellar Door.

Peabody and Sherman visit T.E. Lawrence aka Lawrence of Arabia

One of a series of super short stories. The rule is a maximum of 1000 words. "From the wild" is set in the 1700's on a plantation. The slaves were encouraged to breed, children born into slavery were cheaper than buying them in. Most often, the couples were kept separately on different plantations so that, when they did come together, a child was almost inevitable. It is an ideal theatre for the werewolf to chose her next victim.

short story about an U.S. Army sniper in the vietnam war.