Historical Stories

A Thank You Note Story
This is my thank you note for those men who served in WWI. I had two great-uncles who were in France, and one was gassed, but survived. He fought a battle with what mustard gas had done to his lungs for the rest of his life. This is a what-if kind of story. Suppose the US Army had used a little imagination. What might have happened then? One squad tests out an idea. Read what might have happened.

Eva Van der Heiden knows she will never find a man to love her. Her days are spent caring for her siblings and enjoying spinsterhood until her aunt matches her with a man under false pretenses. Luc de Jeu marries Eva thinking she will provide him with an heir when in fact, she thinks their union is a marriage of convenience. Can their marriage last when they both have different expectations?

A fun, insightful story of the "Real" Chuck Johnson's youth. Read why his stories often include airplanes and music.

Cheating, intrigue and revenge in the early days of the nuclear age.

The Great War ended with a human victory - but only thanks to God's smallest lifeform. The common cold killed the Tripod Builders, but not before they left the world in ruins. Now, George Wells - son of a British author living in exile in New York - finds himself caught up in a deadly conspiracy centered on the surviving Red Martians and the hope of a nightmare future which might only be averted with all out war.

A Halloween 2022 Contest Entry
In 1920s Romania, a traumatized American soldier, a German doctor, and a local woman face an ancient, ravenous evil.

Jack Kruger has been back in Brooklyn for some time now and he yearns to return to the past and witness those battles that he had studied for so many years in his military studies. The American Civil War was fresh in his memory, but now he was focused on the American Revolution and he wanted to begin in 1775 right at the beginning in order to follow the time line in a way that made it easy for him to understand Washington's strategy. / (Reviews)

The life of a woman given a special gift which changed her entire existence. Youth ever-lasting with a need for semen. She recalls the night a mysterious stranger implanted her with the "Charm".

A Mat Sullivan and Sarah York story
Cletus Tucker is a black gunslinger. This is his story from 1860 to 1900. He is cynical and has every right to be. / (Reviews)