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Letters from the Olive Tree is a literary historical fiction short story set in the early twentieth century. Giovanni Olivi, the second son of a proud but impoverished Tuscan farming family, is bound by tradition and cut off from inheritance. He leaves behind the only life he’s known and the woman he loves, Ersilia Innocenti, in search of opportunity in America, promising to make a life abroad and one day send for her.

During the 1901 World’s Fair, snake-oil salesman, Jim Duncan, stumbles upon the body of a murdered boy, on The Midway. But when the body vanishes, he realizes nothing is as it seems. He plunges deep into the shadows of the fair’s gleaming facades to uncover a demonic conspiracy to assassinate the President and change the course of human history. In this heart-pounding prequel to The King of Pain, Dreamland weaves a mesmerizing tapestry of history, suspense, and horror. Prepare to be captivated by a story that will be with you long after you turn the last page.

A young woman with a shiner on her eye flees danger in Phenix City, hoping for a better life. An abusive boyfriend and the local law pursue. She may face new dangers hitchhiking south. Will she find the new life she longs for?

Dans cette toute première œuvre de Stefan Zweig, empreinte de délicatesse, l’auteur capture avec justesse la mélancolie des souvenirs et la douceur des rêves évanouis. Sous le soleil éclatant d’une villa en bord de mer, une femme et un homme se retrouvent après de longues années d’éloignement. Leur conversation, d’abord empreinte de légèreté, ravive bientôt les échos d’une jeunesse lointaine, d’un amour effacé par le temps mais jamais complètement éteint.

Beyond—The Door of No Return An emotional, dark, and gripping historical fiction novella 1501 AD, Senegal. The land awakens under a golden sunrise—lush, untamed, alive. The cries of exotic birds echo above the mighty baobabs, lions roar in longing, and hippos yawn beside watchful crocodiles. In a Serer village nestled north of the Gambia River, life flourishes in harmony with nature and spirit. Dembe, a revered hunter and spiritual leader, awakens with his family in their earthen hut, unaware that the final day of their world is beginning. As drums sound and rituals stir the village in ...

What if the story of slavery as we know it… was reversed? The White Cargo is a bold and haunting work of speculative fiction that reimagines the Atlantic slave trade through a completely flipped lens. Told across dual timelines, the novel follows Elias Monroe — a man enslaved in a world where Europeans are the ones in chains — and his modern-day descendant, Caleb, who uncovers a buried truth that challenges everything he thought he knew about history, identity, and justice. As Caleb dives deeper into Elias’s hidden journal, past and present begin to collide — exposing a legacy of ...

Welcome to the Gilded Age in Washington, D.C. The Dance of Discord short story is a lighthearted tale of spies and intrigue. In Washington, D.C. around the beginning of the 1900s, Secret Service agent Milo Quick and Duchess Felina Gattone must navigate an intricate and dangerous dance of diplomatic maneuvering. Hints are left all along the way for a twist at the end. Will you spot them?

Ed is a middle-aged man who lives in a nice house in a nice town. He goes to work, and he comes home. He does what is expected of him. But one day, as he walks upstairs, a photo on his wall calls out. It's his grandfather talking. "You ancestors were givers," the grandfather says. "You are not doing enough." The ghost grandfather invites Ed to a midnight meeting, where he hears advice from ancestors. That's what this story is about.

Twelve Titanic Tales is a short story anthology. The author has used her Titanic research and her love of the short story genre in each unique short tale. Only one of the stories has been published before. Each tale is the work of fiction and has a Titanic theme. Love stories, ghost stories, sci-fi and character based accounts let you experience life on board the famous liner, the sinking and the aftermath of the disaster through the eyes of a collection of fictious characters.

Dawn explores the passions of a variety of workingmen; from the earliest shriek of the train whistle, and the rumble of truck engines, to the operatic whistle of the newsboy; the quarrels of the laboring force with each other and with the fate of each! Ellis reflects firsthand on his youth in an immigrant community of the Great Depression era. A play in one-act, running from an early morning to mid-day, reflecting on a span of years in the late 1930s. "This play is a great work of literature. Truly on a par with the great works of Arthur Miller ... Eugene O'Neill ... Clifford Odets. DAWN ...

A collection of twenty short stories inspired by and featuring medieval engravings. Although the pictures are all medieval, some stories occur in the present or future. Aside from other things, I had Mörk Borg, CY_BORG, and Death in Space on my mind. Let yourself be abducted into a world of terraformed androids, organ-based dialogs, unclean revivals, psilocybin-induced travels into the demonlands, and much more.