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25 Most Recent Historical Fiction Short Stories

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Bringing our true purpose to fruition... by Joyce White
Since I was a little girl, I’ve been on a kind of mental metamorphosis contemplating how each generation was supposedly built on the accomplishments of the last. ..
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Brutus: A Tale of Leadership and Timing by Abu-Hassan Koroma
This story is about Marcus Brutus' journey to become a leader in ancient Rome and his eventual assassination of Julius Caesar in an attempt to save the Roman Republic. It explores themes of ambition, leadership, and the importance of timing in achieving one's goals...
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Business Talents by Randall Barfield
Should 'Business Talents' be the title or is 'The Best Friend He'd Ever Had' better?..
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Can You Spare A Nickel, Pal? (Part One) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A boy lives during the Depression of 1929. Image (c) 2012, by Karla Dorman...
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Canterbury Road by Michael Davis
A retired US Navy Veteran goes to England on vacation, explores some of England's history and landmarks and finds an apartment on the coast...
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Celts and Kings Chapter One by Mel Hathorn
This is the final copy of Chapter one of Celts & Kings. ..
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Celts and Kings Chapter Three by Mel Hathorn
This is the final copy of Chapter Three of Celts and Kings. ..
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Celts and Kings Chapter Two by Mel Hathorn
This is the final copy of Chapter two of Celts & Kings. ..
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Celts and Kings Prologue by Mel Hathorn
This is the final copy of the Prologue. ..
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Ch'i Lin and the Cup by Edward Patterson
The wine cup is passed from husband to bride at a traditional Chinese wedding. Poor Ch'i Lin...
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Chapter 3 from Sword Against the Robe by Ted Roberts
Murder and Mystery set in the backdrop of 17th Century France. Somebody's trying to kill Monsieur d'Avaloy, but he hasn't a clue as to why...
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Chapter One of Fixin' Things, a novel of Gettysburg by Peggy Bell
Fixin' Things presents an accurate though little known view of events during the fateful summer of 1863 as seen through the eyes of several fictionalized composite images of women and girls present in Adams County at that time. In Fixin' Things, the characters are fiction but events and experiences ..
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Chapter One of Sappho Sings by Peggy Bell
Sappho Sings is the culmination of over forty years of research, writing and loving Psappha, as Sappho called herself in her soft Aeolian dialect. While incorporating the author's sell our out of print Y2K novel, Psappha, the much enhanced and augmented Sappho Sings is the author's "preferr..
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Chapter Two - Sappho Sings by Peggy Bell
Here SAPPHO SINGS in her own words. Ancient phrases become the warp and weave of an intricate tapestry so delicately woven it becomes impossible to distinguish the imported threads from the weaver's own. The author has herself become the voice of The Poetess to the extent that invented passages read..
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View Photo of Charis' Healing Read excerpt from Charis' Healing Charis' Healing by Sandi Layne
Charis, the new herbalist for her Clan, goes on a quest to find a heartsick soul, to prove her complete capability as her people's Healer. Fictionalized Eire of the year AD 490...
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Cheptaleel the Pure by Purity Cheptoo
Retelling of the Legend of Cheptaleel, a Kalenjin heroine..
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Cherokee John 'tsa-ni' by Laveral Rogers
An old Cherokee Indian refuses to leave his wife's grave and be moved west with the other Cherokees! By Laveral Rogers Copyright..
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Chief Drifting Goose and Taps by Mick Zerr
Chief Drifting Goose of the Yanktonais Dakota, discovers the beautiful bugle song of Taps...
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Cholera!: India, 1910. by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A village feels helpless to stop the outbreak of cholera that's struck a good deal of its inhabitants...
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Christina meets the Lapps by Wayne Anderson
This is a chapter from my novel Christina about my imigrant grandmother...
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Christina: Cabin Fever by Wayne Anderson
Homestaders trapped in their homes by storms sometimes developed cabin fever, a state where they hallucinated scenes that were not there...
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Christmas Encounter by Juliet Waldron
My version of the wonderful Revolutionary Era film, "The Crossing," starring one of my heroes, Alexander Hamilton...
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Christmas, 1944. by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A young girl living in the time of World War II dreams of the war to end. She also dreams about what she wants for Christmas. Image of scary storm clouds (c) 2010, by Karla Dorman...
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Clouds Across the Sun by Ellen Brazer
Before the end of WWII, Hitler charged a group of his most trusted and brilliant comrades with a mission—educate your progeny and then elevate them to positions of power throughout the world. Steeped in fact and impeccably researched, Clouds Across the Sun is the story of just one of these children...
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Coming home by Walter Jones
War is is over, what now???..
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Confucius on Plagiary by David Arthur Walters
Student punished for plagiarizing Confucius..
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Dance with a Spanish Lady: An excerpt from my novel, The Devil’s Ruse. by Ruth Welburn
On September 18, 1918, Dr. Nicholas Wareing attends an autopsy at Camp Upton Army Training Camp on a young private who has died from the influenza pandemic. As he leaves the camp to bike the three miles to Upton Train Station, he gets very ill with the grippe himself...
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Dare to Flee by Phil Graham
Exerpt..
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DAYS OF SMOKE (excerpt, Chapter III) by Mark Ozeroff
This piece takes place during the Spanish Civil War, and is written from the standpoint of a nonpolitical German fighter pilot...
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Dear Noah by Mystic Rose
A story about Noah and I, a humoristic side of life and rain, ..
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Desires of the Heart by Linda LaRoque
This is a time travel romance that takes place in the 1940's. Vacationing after the failure of her marriage, Loren finds refuge in a comfortable country cottage with a dark secret. A step through the garden’s ivy-covered gazebo takes her to post WW II and a man who she lusts for and can gi..
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Diptheria Outbreak! by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
My first attempt at historical fiction. The facts gathered for this story were thanks to the Merck Medical Manual (Merck and Co., Pocket Books, [c] 1997) and The Cruelest Miles--The Historic Story of Dogs and Men In A Race Against An Epidemic by Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury (W.W. Norton and Co...
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Dirty Jew!!: A Story About World War II. (Part One) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A boy is forced to humiliation after Nazi soldiers invade their home in their hostile takeover over people who are Jewish. Image (c) 2010, by Karla Dorman...
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Dirty Jew!!: A Story About World War II. (Part Two) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
Abraham and his parents are forced by Nazi soldiers to go on a train ride to "parts unknown". Image of storm clouds (c) 2007, by Karla Dorman...
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Dirty Jew!: A Story About World War II. (Part Three) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A boy and his family are separated and are forced into a "labor camp"...
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Discovery of Healing Herbs Five Steps Dragon (QiChun) by Adrian Lowe
The onset of using trees, plants and herbs as the first original concept for home grown medicine..
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Donaree the Musketeer - Chapter 3: A Mysterious Note by Ted Roberts
Chapter 3 of my published novel: The Adventures of Monsieur de La Donaree the Musketeer. Check out the first two chapters, along with my introduction in my books section!..
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Dragons End by Paul Mc Cann
The story of a knight who was chosen to destroy the beast at life's end . ..
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Dreaming of Tesla by John Coppolella
My fantasy of meeting the great Nikola Tesla, that I was born 19 years too late to meet!..
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El Aurens by Simon Bever
Did you know that Laurence of Arabia rode his own Tour de France? His bicycle still remembers the trip...
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Ephraim by Randall Barfield
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Eternal Tears- Introduction by Robin Adams
Dimetre is faced with the reality of death and fears his lonliness will never end. This is a possible introduction to my next book. It is actually a reflection back to the previous novel, Too Many Tears. ..
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Excerpt for Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War by Gayle Martin
"Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War a Luke and Jenny Adventure" by Gayle Martin. ..
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Excerpt from A Destiny Foretold by Neo Cantu
Scene: The protagonist descends from the mountain after he is captured by a rotund rebel...
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Excerpt from Backside of the Country by Sarah Williams
This excerpt gives the reader insight into the thoughts of some people during the struggle for civil rights...
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Excerpt from Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Luke and Jenny Visit Tombstone by Gayle Martin
It began as a normal family vacation to historic Tombstone, Arizona. Suddenly that all changed when Luke and Jenny found themselves with the people who were present at the famous gunfight near the O.K. Corral...
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Excerpt from Just a Season by John Wills
This is an excerpt to the novel Just a Season..
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Excerpts - Living on a Wing and a Prayer by Virginia Tolles
Living on a Wing and a Prayer by Virginia Tolles Copyright © 1994 by Virginia Tolles. All Rights Reserved. ~ The C-141 Starlifter made its maiden flight on December 17, 1963, between Lockheed-Georgia in Marietta and Warner-Robbins (now Robbins) AFB Georgia. The last C-141 StarLif..
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Exerpt from Majestic Lunacy by D. Kelly
The morning after...
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Father Christmas and the Provost by Celia Hayes
How to hide a wanted man, on Christmas Eve..
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