Historical Stories

This is the first of a series of stories that I am going to do based on various songs, mostly ones I suspect most readers have never heard. This one is based of an old standard, and involves two young Jewish kids in love with each other in the arranged-marriage ghetto of the Lower East Side. Their marriages have been arranged, but not to each other. How will they cope?

Gisele was a spy in WW2, then a doctor, and at 85 years old she went to work for the secretive longevity institute. When she escaped the subsequent annihilation in 2010, she was just 16. On the outside at least. On the run with nothing, she has to fill her needs and get by on what assets she has; a wily old mind and a sexy young body.

Or, an account of a Young Lad's self-rescue from Accidental Marooning on a Hostile Shore and his two year trek across Untamed Wilderness and Rugged icy Mountains and endless Barren Windblown Plains evading Wild Beasts and Savage Red Indians and Bestial Spaniards to return to the Former Colonies of His Majesty Geo III by the Grace of God. How He Fared.

A Story in the War in the Pacific Universe
While Billy is with the Marines at Tarawa, Kitty is tempted at home.

Average Joe was damaged in the First World War, shot down for the third time unlucky, often quipping that losing a leg and an ear he was "less than average" and at 43 was a confirmed bachelor. Then he met heavily pregnant widow Anjelica, "call me Anjie", but Joe thought she was an angel. And she was until her first husband turned up Out of the blue like a bad penny. Unusually, this story starts at the End rather than the Beginning.

Corporal Harry Hamlin has just been promoted to Sergeant and put in charge of a Squad of Paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne Division on the 16th of December 1944. Unbeknownst to him this is the first day of what will be known as the Battle of the Bulge. Christmas is only 8 days away; Harry and his fellow paratroopers may gain a better appreciation of the little things in life. But they will have to survive fierce combat and the coldest winter in a hundred years!

Continuing...with additions...Mahiro Sato's adventures. A total fabrication...do I do anything else?

Two men head to NYC for the world series and meet Beatrice on the train. Smooth talking gets her into the powder room with them and well that's why you'll want to read the rest of the story. PS: She has a sister waiting for her in the city.

Craig McCallister made his living as a stuntman and double in Western movies. He was the fastest draw in Hollywood. He was constantly in demand to double for the hero when fast gun action was required. One day a weird accident on the set flipped him back in time to the Old West. This is the story of how he adapted and made a success of the life he had portrayed. Join him in what became a life and death struggle as he found happiness in the Wild West.