Historical Stories

An attempt at presenting Joseph's story. Joseph was a working man, a carpenter. An attempt to bring the story into more realistic tones than the myth-making carols we have.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, for want of a horse the knight was lost, for want of a knight the battle was lost, for want of a battle the kingdom was lost. So a kingdom was lost-all for want of a nail. Sometimes a minor thing can have great consequences. The death of the eldest son of James I of England allowed his brother Charles to take the throne and civil war ensued. Not a story as such but a timeline of what might have been...

A Sacramento Marshal Story
Jasper Samuelson leads a wagon train over the California Trail in 1862. The Jayhawkers and Bushwhackers are a real nuisance. And the Indians aren't very helpful, either. Thank God for shotguns and buckshot!

A story in the Naughty Families Universe
The young wife of Earl Dunrossiter discovers to her horror just what sort of man her new husband and his sons are.

A Christmas Story
He needed supplies for the winter.

A story of the Clegg family's slave trading businesses
Before today's Freddie Clegg there were others. After the chaos of the German invasion of Paris in 1940, one man finds himself standing up against the Nazi threat. Oh, yes, and kidnapping women along the way. Freddie Clegg finds his skills in demand for the British war effort.

When the United States entered the Great War in 1916, it was at a crossroads. Europe urgently needed wheat and anarchists sought to attack the crops to foil the federal desire to help. A bureau (later to become the FBI) was formed to combat criminals with the powers to cross state boundaries. This is the fictional account of a young American who landed on Ellis Island from Scotland in 1902 aged 16.

When the Korean officer De-Yong is on the verge of dying in a duel against a samurai, a kumiho saves his life. She offers him a pact—one that can only be sealed through a union—and it heals his wounds. Too late, both of them realize the consequences of this bond, which also draws other powers onto the battlefield. In the process, the moral boundaries between humans and demons begin to blur.