Historical Stories

When Hetty headed out west to join her husband, she could imagine many dangers. But somehow she'd never believed bandits might waylay her stagecoach. When they do, she's forced to make some impossible decisions. And the choices she makes will change her life forever.

I stand on the temple steps in the sunlight, a harmitu of Inanna waiting for someone to purchase my first time with a man. Waiting to begin the sacred rite—mirroring the mating of sacred king and high priestess, of god and goddess—that will make me a woman.

In 1857 Georgia, sixteen-year-old Johnny Brighton receives an unconscionable birthday gift — a fifteen-year-old girl named Naomi, given to him as property. But Johnny sees not property. He sees the girl he loves. What follows is a thousand mile trek through enemy territory, hunted by professionals, sustained by an underground network of souls who believe that love and freedom are the same word. Some journeys change everything.

A Spirit of the West Story
Great evil is about to strike the old West of 1868! Bobby Thornton, a 12-year-old orphan is being groomed to be the champion for good. Join him as he learns how to be a superhero. His mentor, Storm Who Walks, an Indian spirit over 1000 years old, guides him on his way. DAPorter originated the plot and I am just fleshing it out. Any credit is his, any blame is mine.

A Story in the Wendy's Worlds Universe
She rescued a starving seagull and found a watch.

A Gone to the West... Story
Prairie Schooners! An Indian Attack! A Young Man's Friendship with a legendary Gunman! A Covered Wagon Train heading Westward! Through adversity, friendships are formed that will last a lifetime. A Romance that only blossoms at the end of the Trail.

For Halloween: By long custom, Siberian Prince Mikhail Melikov has been accorded the privilege of being offered a young man for his permanent service on All Hallows' Eve from one of the towns, in succession, in his nineteenth-century Russian princedom. Prince Melikov has received this privilege for centuries. The young, to-the-manor-born Alexei is this year's offering and Prince Melikov has come to take delivery.