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25 Most Recent Historical Fiction Short Stories

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The Purple Death: The Great 'Flu Outbreak Of 1918. (Part One) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A mother fears for her very family when a severe flu outbreak ensues. Later her very worst fears come true when two of her children die from this virulent strain of flu...
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The Purple Death: The Great Influenza Outbreak of 1918. (Part Two) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Sarah continues to worry about her family; she's already lost her two youngest children to the "flu" that's running rampant across a good part of the country...
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The Reaper's Weave by Gina Barr
For some in times of conflict, there is a wounding which finally kills...
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The Rescue by Janet Terry
She vowed to keep herself chaste for the man she loved, but as time passed she returned to her mysterious lover. font color=666666>Note: Image of King Brit design and copyright 2002 by Gail Ross in collaboration with Janet Sue Terry/font> ..
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The River by BJ Edwards
A secret lurks beneath a river, waiting to avenge an ancient wrong...
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Read excerpt from The Rock The Rock by Claywoman
The rock had stood, first in the middle of the wind swept plain, a refuge for small creatures to hide, not only from the sun, but also from the panicked herds that ran past. The grasses around it waved in the breezes that constantly blew. The sun warmed its surface, but near the bottom, it ke..
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The SACRIFICE by Miller Caldwell
Loving your Enemy...
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The Sea Journal - A Tale of Piracy by Ted Roberts
Here's a story that will eventually end up in a novel. This is a sneak peek into the glorious days of Swashbuckling, and of what it was like to be overtaken by Pirates!..
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The Search For Papa. (Part One) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A young boy is scared for his father, who has been taking to parts unknown by Nazi soldiers during World War II, and he fears for his life and the lives of his family as well...
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The Search For Papa. (Part Five) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
The boy continues to survive and wonder about his family as he whiles his days away at a concentration camp set up by the Nazis in World War II Europe. Image of clouds (c) 2009, by Karla Dorman...
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The Search For Papa. (Part Four) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A child is forced to work from sunup to sundown with very little food to eat or water to drink; he is worried about his family and little brother, but most of all, his father, who has been missing for over a week now...
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The Search For Papa. (Part Three) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A Jewish child and his mother search for their missing family member in World War II, both hoping that they won't be captured by the Nazis...
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The Secret Children Of the White Rose by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
We call ourselves the White Rose Resistance, the White Rose representing the peace we so desire. We want the Jewish Children to go free, we want all children to go free. We do not believe the garbage that spews from Frau Hitlers mouth, but we must pretend or we can get caught. ..
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The Sickness by Michael Saunders
Check it out at www.copperfieldreview.com/fiction/ then look for The Sickness..
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THE SINKING by Richard Sassoon
A snapshot of a possible future evolution..
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The Spider's Web Part 01 by Emile Tubiana
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The Spinster by Kim Murphy
The South had belles, but the North had.....
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The Stranger: A Climbing Boy extract by Mark Lichterman
“What’j’ya got boy?” Forcing his eyes from the boy’s eerily lit face, Johnson motioned to his hand. Zachariah turned his hand upward.....
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The Sun Flower Dress by Nan Turner
"The Sun Flower Dress" is a story that takes place during the Great Depression in the eastern mountains of Kentucky. The story is fiction with snippets of historical facts. It is intended to portray the determination of a young woman to escape her "world of coal dust covered povery." Set in the 193..
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The Void by Hazel Statham
Wounded in battle, the knight has no memory of his former life. What will it take to end this void and restore all to him?..
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The War Orphan. (Part One) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A man encounters a little orphan of the war, and his life is changed. Image of lightning at night (c) 2010, by Karla Dorman...
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The Weeping Palm Tree by Gideon Dashe
How Borlong the main charcter was born...
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View Photo of THE Y 2 K FIASCO Read excerpt from THE Y 2 K FIASCO THE Y 2 K FIASCO by Bradley Fralick
I wrote this more than two years ago now...
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This Troubled Land (Chapter One) by Richard Radtke
The first chapter of a book I have been working on. I would appreciate feedback!..
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Tiny by Flying Fox Ted L Glines
This story started, as many do, with a fantasy tale to entertain Patty. I love to make her laugh. For some reason, after laughing, she said that I made it up. No one believes me any more ... This one has a little hook on the end; maybe turns it into a horror story; might make your hair stan..
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Today I Feel As Though I've Just Won The Oscars! by Maggie Dove
My historical romance with a mystery released by Eternal Press on October 7th, 2009!..
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Too Small A Price by Audrey Snead
I huddled in the dank corner of the dark cell. The shouts of the crowd roared in my ears, freezing my heart with cold fear. It was a frenzied sound that made my skin crawl with something other than the filthy bugs that shared my cell. I winced at the nastiness of the s..
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Traitor by Velda Brotherton
Based on the recollections of an elderly man who remembers when he was a boy during the Civil War...
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Treblinka. by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A girl deals with brutality in a concentration camp during the Second World War. This is her disturbing story...
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Tribune Marcus Severus by Jackie Brooks
A story set in Roman occupied England around AD 82. Eboracum was the Roman name for York and Derventio is now called Malton, eight miles from where I live. The Picts and Caledonians were the Northern tribes of what is now Scotland...
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Two Hearts, On Love chapter 6 by Pam Potter
As Sammy was leaving the photograph studio, Timmy was a handful now passed a year, struggling in her arms to get down Sammy watched as her family and friends climbed in ..
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Two Hearts, One Love Chapter 5 by Pam Potter
Sammy and Christie gasped as they seen the line around the block of buckboards, buggies, men on horses all in line to go to one placed, the st..
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Two hearts,one love chapter 7 by Pam Potter
Sammy outside a few weeks later on the porch swing hung on the rafters of the porch in front of the dugout swinging Timmy to sleep watching the Pingya and Sungya roof the three story br..
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Two Seperate Heavens by Victor Pryles
A father and his deaf, mute son enter the wilderness of far western Tennessee in the time of Andrew Jackson( 1839) where they discover a powerful Native American who changes thier perspective on everything...
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Tying the Knot by Van Gerry
This is the first Chapter of a novel I have been working on for three years. Provisionally, it was entitled 'Devil's Vacation'; now it is 'The Knot'. This Chapter, which can stand on its own as a short story, describes a fictional event during the Norman Conquest of England. Your criti..
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Typhus! (Part Four) (Conclusion) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Rebecca Griggs is thankful that the epidemic of typhus finally seems to be easing off, but it doesn't take her sadness away, as she lost her husband, her mother in law, and a son to the dreaded disease. She can only hope that it doesn't strike again...
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Typhus! (Part One) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
An epidemic of typhus strikes a community, leaving its residents fearing for their very lives...
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Typhus! (Part Three) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Rebekah is coping with an epidemic of typhus that has already taken her husband and one of her sons; the diseases continues to rage unabated...
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Typhus! (Part Two) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
"Every day we hear of someone else dying or more and more people becoming sickened." The typhus epidemic continues to rage out of control. Image (C) 2009, Karla Dorman...
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