The setting is a county town close to the Welsh border during the reign of the Norman King Henry I, youngest son of the Conqueror. William, the archer, has no family to sow his Welsh fields so travels late to the market towns of England to sell the Welsh longbows and fletched arrows he's fashioned throughout the long winter. He is forced to tread old ground where he hasn't plied his trade in for years, bringing back memories he has tried to forget. At a tourney he recognises an old longbow..
A complicated story of a woman who is marked with stigmata and of a man who was cheated of his savings, He finds love, wealth and gained many friends during the next two decades. The story turns suddenly to dreams of the far past and is historical in nature and tells how Mary and Pete, with their friends in the present, deal with these dreams. Miriam lived during the time, as we know it, when Christianity began.
A Thank You Note Story (10) Spend a few days with an American infantry platoon in the hedgerows of Normandy, France. Just be sure to keep your head and your ass down! This is another of my “Thank-you Notes” stories, but it is longer than usual.
Jeremiah Bartholomew, a 13 year old kid from NYC, winds up in show business in Texas in 1870, billed as the best pistol shot in all of Texas. He may be, because he's already killed 2 men with his gun. Join him and his friends, Jake, the snake oil salesman, and Sally, the exotic dancer, as they roam about Texas trying to make an honest dollar.
This is a story in four parts of precisely 250 words each. Each 'chapter' uses the name of one of the four great Celtic Fire Festivals. It is short and, I hope, sweet.
A Glass Balls Story (5) In this story concluding the series, modern-day Livy enjoys the favors of three men and two women at once while, in medieval Italy, Dom impregnates two women and reunites with the woman who, years before, made a man of him. (There's more about the story in my blog.)
An Unremarkable story from the old west (1) A man, riding through the old west on an unremarkable day, hears a scream and discovers a rape in progress. Little does he know how his act of kindness will change his life...