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Lies and Lust in the Tudor Court: The Fifth Wife of Henry VI
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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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Living on Sisu: The 1913 Union Copper Strike Tragedy
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First Place Winner in historical fiction in the Purple Dragonfly Awards for excellence in children's literature. Feel like you are in the moment nearly 100 years ago..  
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25 Most Recent Historical Fiction Short Stories

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Jerusalem's Welcome by Paul Mc Cann
This story is a behind the scene look at the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem . ..
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Jewish Mother by Randall Barfield
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Just A . by Richard Kallao
just some thoughts I had because I couldn't sleep a comet be real ......
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Just Well Loved by Rebecca Brae
A chance meeting brings new hope to a beloved character trapped in a literary classic...
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Kabul Dreams; Buddha Weeps by Burgess Needle
Adventures, excitement, romance and the Buddhas of Bamiya all come together in this fast-moving tale where all the characters fall into the social maelstrom that is Kabul circa 1969...
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Keelhaul Island by Timothy England
Set in the 17th century, a pirate and smuggler fights for his freedom and for his true love who is the most wanted pirate of all of the High Seas...
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Read excerpt from Kisera Kisera by Laura Coleman
This is a story about a Half Cherokee Indian girl and her life...
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Kristallnacht!! (November 9/10, 1938). (Part One) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A Jewish family is forced to flee for their very lives when their home (and the homes and businesses of other Jewish families) are ransacked and destroyed by German SA stormtroopers and non-Jewish civilians...
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Legend of the Last Vikings - Alternate Ending - Chapter 34 Old Friends by John Halsted
The crew have beaten the Black Scorpions at their own game and help the Lang Ren find a new home. Now they dash for home across the Karakum desert and around the northern tip of the Aral Sea. But what will they find waiting for them in Astrakhan? ..
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Legend of the Last Vikings - Alternate Ending - Chapter 35 by John Halsted
Chapter 35 - Leaving the Past Behind Reacquaited with their old friends the crew depart Astrakhan for Kiev. But first they must deal with their old enemies, the Black Scorpions. This done they make haste for Sarkel enroute to Kiev. But what adventure awaits........?..
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Leif Ericson and the Peanut Bird by Mick Zerr
Story of how Leif Ericson came to North America,and the legend of his meeting with the people of the Great Lakes and how they helped the Vikings find a place of fantastic legends...
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Let the Children Come Unto Me ( Notes On A New Project) by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
In the year 1212, it is said two boys had a similiar vision, one in Germany and one in France, in the vision the Children of Christendom walking through the gates of Jerusalem......
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Let The Children Come Unto Me ( Notes on A New Project Part Two by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
Many in the year 1212 believed that Latin was the only tongue God spoke or understood......
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Little Vietnamese Girl. (Part One) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A soldier serving in the Marines during the Vietnam War finds an abandoned little girl...
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Little Vietnamese Girl. (Part Two) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
The soldier who found the abandoned little waif decides to take her to an orphanage not far from where he'd discovered her...
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Long Lake Fog by Ed Zaruk
This was a writing exercise at Cathie Pelletier’s Impromptu conference in Lawrenceburg TN in Nov 2002. The lead line, ‘But first you need to know,’ was suggested by William Price Fox. ..
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Love and Beyond by Rhonda Baumgardner
Love has no boundary. Two people come together in a hard land and battle enemies and love eachother no matter what the cost...
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Love Lost by Walter Jones
Slow memory..
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Love on the open road chapter 10 by Pam Potter
[Pingya and Sammy are stuck in the hot August sun while he fixes the wagon. Sammy escape the heat in her memories of Christmas two years before. part two of the story that was on chapter 9.] One August hot afternoon in eighteen hundred eighty, Sammy watched..
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Love on the open road chapter 2 by Pam Potter
Several weeks later the Weirs niece arrived on the noon stagecoach. Sammy looked forward in meeting her. She was about the same age as her. They were to work together. Misses Weir had been saving up her money for some two years to get here. ..
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Love on the open road chapter 3 by Pam Potter
Pingya and Sammy get closer to his family. Four months passed and Sammy was so glad to be out of Leavenworth Kansas she could shout. The town was so loud and big she always was getting lost from the rooming house they lived and worked in. ..
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Love on the open road chapter 5 by Pam Potter
Pingya and Sammy and their baby Fumiko met Pingya's Aunt Nancy Jane. Three months pass Sammy lays in bed, Fumiko and Spunky and Smokey was asleep beside her, as Pingya bangs the hammer outside their cover wagon replaced a broken wheel. Samm..
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Love on the open road chapter 7 by Pam Potter
Sammy gives birth to their new baby. A week later, Sammy watched her family, Fumiko looked so cute on Christmas holding a mistle toe up over Pingya's forehead, She smacks her lips together. He pecks her on her lips. I can't wait until next ..
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love on the open road chapter 8 by Pam Potter
Three months passed, Kelly's family is living in Grantville, Kansas, a small farming town. They rent a one room log cabin near the saw mill. Pingya works at the stage depot, as a Teller three days a week. On his way home one March morning looking fo..
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Love on the open road chapter 9 by Pam Potter
Sammy and Pingya and stuck out in the heat with a broken wheel, as Sammy descovered an old letter in her dairy she forgot to mail her mother, sparks her memory of a cooler time a winter two years ago. By August of eightenteen hundred and ei..
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Love on the open road Chapter six by Pam Potter
Five months has passed, they are still headed for Jackson. County, which is only a few weeks way, but the cold winter snow had them living in little farming town. Pingya finally found work after a week of searching at the train station as a baggage ..
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Love on the open road part 2 chapter 1 by Pam Potter
[This is the start of the series Love on the open road. The second part ofmy series of Sammy and Pingya stories sit in 1870's-1890's. The story begins in Secret Love chapter one Handsome stranger] The next morning Sammy ..
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Love Suffers Long and Is Kind by Susan Kaye
If you are a fan of Jane Austen's Persuasion, come on over to Love Suffers Long and see how things might have happened...
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Majestic Lunacy - The Battle by D. Kelly
Excerpt from Majestic Lunacy..
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Majestic Lunacy - The First Battle by D. Kelly
Humiliation takes a lot of forms...
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Measles Outbreak!: Mexico City, Mexico -- 1768-1769. (Part One) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
A city is in panic mode after a virulent strain of measles grips the city, killing many people, most of them babies or children. Image (C) 2010, Karla Dorman...
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Measles Outbreak!: Mexico City, Mexico, 1768-1769. (Part Two) by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado
The measles epidemic continues to do its dirty work throughout the city and neighboring villages; people are panic-stricken. Image of storm clouds (C) 2010, by Karla Dorman...
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Love on the open road. chapter 4 by Pam Potter
They reached Liberty Missouri. Several weeks later the little circus camped on the outskirts of Liberty Missouri, Pingya and Sammy rode their cover wagon into Liberty about noon, just after lunch Mister Sullivan had let the..
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Mozart's Skull by Juliet Waldron
Excerpted from the recently discovered Diary of an Anonymous Lady, who was said to have been "die Geliebte" of the ever to be lamented composer, W.A. Mozart. The disturbing account which follows may prove difficult for some readers, especially those of the gentler sex, but "de mortuis nil nisi bo..
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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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My Splendid Concubine, Episode 12 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 13 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 14 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 15 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 16 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 17 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 18 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 19 by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century. This concludes the free twelve chapter preview for My Splendid Concubine. ..
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My Splendid Concubine, Episode 3 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 4 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 6 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 7 by Lloyd Lofthouse
Based on a real love story that took place in China during the nineteenth century. ..
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Home of the Braves
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Surgeon Karen Anderson dreams of a world without rules or boundaries ... until the fateful day her antique bed transports her a hundred years into the past. Swept into th..  
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