HISTORICAL SHORT STORIES
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. A Satanic Means to a Clandestine End — A preteen girl finds out there is a mystery surrounding her birth. She confronts several people in town but must use her own resources to discover the incredible truth. Buckle up! Twists and turns abound.
2. Where is Love? — When a housefire kills a young girl’s parents, she must journey to Paris to find someone who will care for her.
3. The Rose Before Rosa Parks — In the early 1950s, A Black woman named Rose discovers an abandoned little white boy on an after-hours city bus. When none are reported missing, she decides to tell everyone he is her child — and the blowback is harsh.
4.Lolland’s War — When a little girl’s best friend is taken by the Gestapo in Denmark, the girl volunteers for a mission to deliver a clandestine note under the Nazi’s noses to help 144 Jews escape to freedom.
5. Her Place in the Sun — A slave woman’s lament on how she lost her precious daughter … twice!
6. Back in the Box It Goes — When a young woman moves into an abandoned mansion in a small English town, the locals can’t discover anything about her. Mysterious activities abound, and rumors are plentiful. When the countess discovers the mystery, she admires the woman who has achieved independence not usually afforded women in the early 1800s. The countess vows to keep the young woman’s secret.
7. Return to London — As World War One begins, a widowed American father removes his only daughter from London to live with her grandmother in America so he can help the Allies win the war. When word gets back that he was killed and her grandmother succumbs to a heart attack, the girl escapes an attempt to place her in an orphanage. She seeks to find a clandestine way to London to claim her father’s residence.
8. Raucously Ruining Reputations — When a young woman seeks revenge on her jilted sister’s would-be fiancé, it blows up in her face.
9. Oakfield House — A destitute woman with a family secret wins the notice of a woman from a wealthy family who brings her back to health. However, nothing is ever given without requiring a favor, and the two women change places. The former destitute woman grows to like her new life, but her secret rears its ugly head and threatens everything she’s gained.
10. A Single Stone — British Guiana in the late 1800s “… is but a single stone in the crown of England,”… a demeaning, superior attitude that can ruin a spoiled high English society woman’s quest to hire a canoe to get to a village she was assigned to visit. The native rower gets spooked and leaves her and her native female guide stranded. The two women huff it on foot toward the village where nature gets the best of the Britton … and then there is Kanaima!
11. The Last Daughter — Nearing old age, a couple has but one last daughter to marry off, having done so for the other three. But the remaining daughter intends to stay with them, making their final years comfortable. However, a mouse of a suitor comes along and tries to woo her. She resists, he persists, and the parents are remiss. Who will succumb to the abyss?
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FANTASY/SCI-FI SHORT STORIES
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. The Shape of Things to Come — H.G. Wells takes his time machine ahead 100 years and meets a teenager who inadvertently teaches him something about himself.
2. First Kiss — Two armies fought each other for world domination. Now, there are no spoils left to be had. Two soldiers from opposite sides meet in a destroyed town. Who will come out the victor … or will it be the kiss of death for both of them?
3. The Ring of Verisimilitude — A high school girl doesn’t like how things in history turned out. She feels it’s her duty to right the wrongs. But how? Then she stumbles onto the Ring of Verisimilitude.
4. Marilyn Monroe’s Journal for Earthlings — A shape-shifting alien comes to Earth to study its strange inhabitants … disguised as one of the TV images her people received from our world … Marilyn Monroe. What could go wrong? [Nearly everything.]
5. The Great Red Spot — A young man borrows a time machine from his partner. He wants to witness the Battle of Gettysburg … even though his partner warned the machine needed calibration. When he arrives, he finds the male-female roles reversed. The women are too eager to engage, and he spends his first night celebrating his arrival. Watching the female soldiers battle the next day, he is inadvertently wounded and discovers that he must stay in the timeline. But why? Because of the Great Red Spot.
6. The Hourglass — A space pilot dines with a female alien, and when invited back to her quarters, he is promised a wonderful time … but it turns into a nightmare!
7. Legend Extraordinaire — Dash Wentworth loves reading about his favorite superhero so much that he wishes to be just like him. He succeeds, but that’s not all that’s changed.
8. The Mask of Akkan — An American archaeology professor receives a mysterious mask that is supposed to have special powers. He tries it on, but nothing happens. The next morning, he awakens in the London of 1888 … with the mask by his side. As he tries to figure out what happened, he wakes up each day in a different locale and time. Has the mask cursed him to travel through time for the rest of his life? Can he stop it? Can he pass it off to anyone else? Well, one thing’s for sure … he has nothing but time to figure it out!
9. A Writer’s Advantage — Four siblings approaching old age meet to discuss their differing opinions on what the afterlife will hold. A nuclear weapon goes off nearby, and one finds himself where he always wanted to be after death … a science officer aboard an exploratory starship. Communicating with one brother, the new science officer discovers a strange truth about the afterlife that no one has ever guessed.
10. Death Takes a Holiday — On a visit to in-laws in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, a man is visited by the ghost of Doc Holiday, whose burial site has never been determined. Currently, the famous gunslinger is memorialized in an empty grave. Ghostly Doc tries to lead the man to his real burial site, which has been lost to history.
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