Historical Stories

Can Harvey survive and thrive beyond the frontier? Will he be alone? Will the children survive? Was that the roar of a bear or the angry whistle of a passing arrow? 🤠 🏹 (total: 19 chapters) / (Reviews)

A story in the The Tugboat Man Universe
Tug and his Atlantean wife are in Camelot, where backstabbing and adultery are the favorite pastime. The mission is to prevent an Athenian super weapon from destroying Anglo-Saxon culture. The problem is that Maria has to seduce King Arthur to get it. Meanwhile, Tug has to joust with one of the knights of the round table while worrying about his wife playing footsie with the King. It isn't Sir Thomas Mallory, or even Mark Twain. But I hope you find my little tale entertaining.

My grandkids are always asking me about my part in World War II, so I thought it was time to put pen to paper and share my experience with them and you!

The priest Meritamun spends his days performing religious duties and maintaining the temple in which he lives, content in a humble life serving the Gods. His routine is turned on its head when he receives a summons from Anput – the living Goddess of death, and the consort of Anubis. He has been chosen to become her personal attendant, but why, he cannot say. His new role will require him to unlearn many of his assumptions about the Gods, and to open himself up to serving his deity in new ways.

30,000 B.C. This story is one viewpoint of how our world became dominated by a single primate species. Follow along as one small clan changes the world forever. I posted this story once before under the name "Controlled Influence", after a few changes I am now reposting it under a different title. If you previously read this story not much changed that you need to do so again. This is not a stroke story.

It is the 12th century, and the Holy Roman Empire stands on the edge of turmoil. Frederick of Hohenstaufen, newly elected King of the Romans and destined to become Emperor, rides toward Rome beneath the weight of growing unrest. On his way to Rome Frederick stops at the Castle of Trier for food and and rest. While there, he learns of the trial of a young squire accused of defying the Church itself, one Johannes Braun. A young man King Frederick learns to depend on if he is to become Emperor.

A G-Rated Story
Episodes of a man's past take on new life in his man's memory when he lies down to take a nap before breakfast.

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..

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.

Wilbur and his dad flew through a portal. Wilbur and his friends are woking together to help each other and the Cherokee people. / (Reviews)