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The Year of the Rat
by Lucille Bellucci

Too soon after WWII and occupation by the Japanese army, Shanghai in 1948 faces occupation by Mao Tse-tung's army. The affluent foreigners believe business will continue ..  
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Sydney's Story
by Eileen Granfors

The story behind the morose hero of A Tale of Two Cities, Sydney's Story is a book I promised my students that I would write. And now I have! Available in paperback or Ki..  
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All Historical Fiction Short Stories

25 Most Recent Historical Fiction Short Stories

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Fighting Bob by Bob Stockton
The author shares a portion of Chapter One from his newly published novel...
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First Chapter - Black Rock: A Time For Love by Elizabeth Parsons
My new time travel romance.....
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Fishing With Birds by Edward Patterson
A story from Edward C. Patterson's novel The Academician . . . ..
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Flesh of the Heart by Joe McCarthy
Open-Letter..
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Flying on Golden Wings by Helen Downey
Post war adventures unraveled into romance and mystery for Greg. An excerpt from my novel Flying on Golden WIngs..
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Follow the Star Chapter One Part One by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
...they must treat wild dogs better than us.....
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Follow the Stars Chapter One Part Five by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
Ezra is gone, a little girl ripped from my arms, and I can do nothing... ..
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Follow the Stars Chapter One Part Four by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
I want to know what it is like to be a little girl again, but I think that feeling has vanished forever, and I am forced to live as an adult in a child's body. ..
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Follow the Stars Chapter One Part Six by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
I already feel alone in this world, because I know something is going to happen to Mamma soon, if she doesnt kill herself the men will come and get her and march her to the death camps, and I worry for her either way. ..
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Follow the Stars Chapter One Part Three by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
Mamma says that she is going to have to help me escape, she says that I am the only hope and I have to be brave, but how can I feel brave when I am facing death? ..
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Follow the Stars Chapter One Part Two by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
Esther struggles through the Holocaust in war time Germany, and deals with the abuse that comes with being a Jewish Girl all because of Adolf Hitler who tries to exterminate all the Jewish P..
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Follow the Stars Chapter Two Part One by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
I am going to pray for the Lord to lead me to where I am suppose to be, and for God to forgive me for having to live such a grave lie. ..
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For All of America by Casey Harmon
We should support our troops despite what we think of the war. ..
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Forbidden Friendship Part 1 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
In a time of slavery and injustice towards people of color, they formed a rare friendship.....
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Forced Blood The Norseman Chapter 1 by Linda Newton Perry
Written for both men and women! Enjoy the first three chapters of Forced Blood The Norseman written in installments over the next couple weeks. The novel takes place 855 A.D. Norway during the Viking Age...
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From Day One: T Capote Spies T Williams by Randall Barfield
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Read excerpt from From Ikerrin From Ikerrin by Steven Poyzer
From Ikerrin By Steven G. Poyzer It is in the late afternoon winter sunlight as it streams through my window, lighting up the dust particles as they dance in the stale air that I find myself sitting by the dying glow of my fireplace in my tenement apartment in New York City. The ci..
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From Little Acorns Grow by Ronald Hull
A Pirate's Story ..
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God Was My Armor Chapter One Complete: by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
We were treated worse than pigs in the barn.....
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Gone To Texas by Celia Hayes
A short snippet and fore-taste of my next book, set in early Texas; a place of which it has been said produced almost more history than could be comfortably consumed locally...
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Good Intentions by Phillip Hardy
This is an excerpt from Kingdom Of The Hollow, The Story Of The Hatfields And McCoys. This chapter tells the story of the bloodiest night of the most famous feud in American history. ..
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Good Karma by Ronald Hull
Photo by Jack FitzSimmons, Oakland Sometimes it takes a while for good karma to enter our lives. One of fifteen stories in my book of short stories, It's in the Water and Other Stories, a POD paperback...
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Gossamer Square Chpt 1 by Dawn Mullan
Everyone's got a history. Society, love, and horror marks one woman's Victorian life. First Chapter to my free online novel. ..
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Growing Up In Little Gap (Hannah's Story Part Two) by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
I wish Mother didn't frown on progress so...
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My Son by Randall Barfield
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My Splendid Concubine, Episode 1 by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century. ..
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My Splendid Concubine, Episode 10 by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century. ..
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My Splendid Concubine, Episode 11 by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century. ..
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Growing Up In Little Gap: Hannah's Story Part One by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
Don’t get me wrong I love ma, but I can not agree with everything she says or does. I try to mind, to not make ma fret so much, but I can not help it sometimes. I need to write., I need to be myself, I can not see myself just focusing on household chores for the rest of my life. AND I DO NOT HAVE TH..
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Hand-me-Down Bride by Juliet Waldron
The first chapter of Hand-me-Down Bride, which will be published some time this year. ..
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Hand-Me-Down Bride - 4 by Juliet Waldron
Karl and his soldiering during the Great Civil War. Legal shenanigans in the Wildbach family...
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Hard Way Home by Velda Brotherton
Based on a true memory from the Civil War, a man gives his wife a horse and the choice of one of their children when he returns from the war to find her married to another man..
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Hear of a Rebel Moon by Misty Graves Thomason
When Trent Roman's wife is killed in a bank robbery. His friends come together to help him track down the killers. Each path they take brings them closer together and finding out who they really are inside...
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Heart of Dust by Meg Leigh
Alone in the red and blue landscape of Outback Australia, Alice waits...
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Hit-and-Run by Ronald Hull
Based on a true story... One of fifteen stories in my book of short stories, It's in the Water and Other Stories, a POD paperback...
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Home Coming by Murielle Petitpas
Remus is an exhile of Rome. Forced into serving in the great Emperor Julius Cesaer's army will he ever see his home land again?..
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Horror Ship! by Michael Kersting
A trip across the "Middle Passage"..
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I Just Want to Be Free Mammi's Story Part One by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
Mamma works for a white family, she takes care of the house and the little white girls with their fancy dresses and toys! Sometimes if Mrs Smith is feeling especially charitable she will give us some of the old toys and clothes...
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I Survived Hell (Esther's Story A Concentration Camp Survivor) Fiction by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
For nearly five years we saw no hot water. We had no privacy nor blankets to keep us warm at night, when it grew cold it was miserable for us, and when someone died, we took clothes off them and tried to warm ourselves. Not knowing or caring that we could catch their diseases and die ourselves. P..
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I Was There #2: Columbine (Colorado) School Shootings (As Witnessed By Rashad Amir Morgan) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
The Columbine school shootings as viewed by a young disabled boy...
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I Was There: Plains Tornado Outbreak, May 3, 1999 (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) ~Part One~(By Tommy Wayne Tucker, aged 17) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A survivor of the Plains Tornado Outbreak of May 1999 shares his memories about the event. He lost his family, but he managed to survive by hiding in the storm celler. The family didn't get to the storm shelter in time, and they were killed by the flying debris and ferocious tornadic winds...
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I welcome your comments on the first two chapters of this novel. by Miller Caldwell
As yet an un-named Historical World War 1 Novel - based on the life of one who fell in 1915. Can you suggest a title?..
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Ignacio rode by Jerry Engler
Who was Ignacio? That is for you to decide for yourself...
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Immortal Sin by John Martin
A very strange tale indeed...
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Read excerpt from Incident at Yreka Flats Incident at Yreka Flats by Paxton Riddle
Big Hand and Slow Eyes, young Shasta teens, learn to late the horrible truth about the white miners...
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Indigestible Potato? by Mark Lichterman
Even to this day, upon seeing a chimney sweep, some people will come to touch him, hoping that a bit of luck might rub off on them. ..
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Intermezzo - Porfirio and Johann by Celia Hayes
Rememberances of the Alamo..
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ISABELLA THE VROLOK by Nolene Dougan
Isabella is a vampire, she is sometimes compassionate but she is always a killer. This is a story that takes place during the Spanish Civil War. ..
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It Happened One Day in Laur by Lilia Lopez-Rahman
This story is a little girl's reminiscence of a Japanese massacre in the small town of Laur, Nueva Ecija, Philippines...
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View Photo of It's A Small world After All! Read excerpt from It's A Small world After All! It's A Small world After All! by Bradley Fralick
P>This be yet another adventure, long ago, of Walker Joe, & Frick!/P>..
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Lies and Lust in the Tudor Court: The Fifth Wife of Henry VI
by Margaret Doner

Married at eighteen, beheaded at twenty, Katheryn Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, paid a high price for her passionate nature. Although she lived five hun..  
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