The Kemet Intelligence Agency is tasked with overseeing the Hittite king Muwatalli's northern campaign in Cimmeria and making sure it goes as expected. The mission is vague and simple. Too simple, it appears.  [4th short story following the March of Deshret in The Bronze Horus universe.]...

Most people grew up hearing fairy tales and fables. They’re such a part of our cultures that Cinderella has a two-part definition in the Oxford Dictionary, and if someone name-drops Robin Hood everyone instantly knows what they mean. These stories have been told and re-told for literally centuries. ...

The pharaoh Ramesses XI has been ruling his realm for over a decade. However, the situation, after all the revolts, wars, and treaties, has changed quite a lot since his accession to the throne. He has thus tasked his highest ranking officials with preparing reports, on their respective spheres of w...

A messenger, his guard, and the blind beggar they meet - our main characters. A war, a black market organization, a palace - our settings. Improvement for the better, standing up for right, and living truthfully - our changes. Welcome to You Changed Me, an alternate historical fiction with steampunk...

In Korea during the age of The Three Kingdoms, conflict and espionage ran rampant across the Korean peninsula. When King Munmu took the Silla throne he did so in the middle of a long war with the Baekje and Goguryeo kingdoms. As such, the first years of his reign were spent......

In 12th century Japan, Yoshi, a down-at-the-heels bushi, agrees to do a "small favor" for Surei, his estranged lover. This embroils Yoshi and Surei into a deadly conspiracy for control of the Chrysanthemum Throne. Can Surei and Yoshi put aside their differences and come together to survive traitorou...

Eva Ganakos is known as a monster with no regard for human lives, a woman who will kill for her own entertainment no matter how young or old the victim is. There is not a single soul in the empire who hasn’t heard of her deeds, with some going so far as to scare their children with her name. When th...

Waking up in another world is fantasy. Or at least it was supposed to be! Carter finds himself in another world. Not only that, but he has 'Villain' as his title. Born as the first-born son to the king of Astria will he take the throne, or will his title be his downfall? A medieval fantasy story con...

For centuries after the fall of the Indus Valley civilization, the nascent kingdoms and tribes in northern India have been warring for control of the region. Yet this presents an opportunity for many outsiders, including merchants and mercenaries, but most notably the Eastern Coalition, which sends ...

COMPLETE SHORT STORY During the Second World War, the head nurse onboard a U.S. Navy hospital ship recounts the haunting experiences of her crew after they find themselves drifting down a mysterious river masked by a bone-white fog....

An absent-minded twelve-year-old takes on uncharted waters, changing history along the way.  But what does his own history have in store?...

After being caught sharing a passionate kiss with a practical stranger, Grace Preston finds her uncomplicated life crumbles right before her eyes as she gets tied to the scarred and dangerous Sebastian Blackwood who is only known by the dark rumors surrounding him. Mistrust, danger and secrets conti...

"𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞."  Those words, traverse through space and time only to bring us what's called "inevitable" -  a designated end that awaits right from the start of every new journey. How unfair... to have no control over the course ...

An unfortunate fact of history that it is inherently selective. The choices of a historian at the moment of writing, what they choose to deem as unimportant and events of 'history' will reverberate in the collective perception of the past for eons to come. As Carr poses to us: "What is the criterion...

Hope dies in Captain Arcturus when he discovers the first radio signals.             There’s not supposed to be anyone in this solar system. If poachers have beaten them to the system’s asteroid field, there might be nothing left for his crew to mine. The interest their overlords charge for their sh...

An Excerpt from Planets and Peoples of the Dark Arm: My Journey across the Spur of Leda, from Erostera to Lebenda and Back Again, and What I Discovered along the Way; by Professor Rouxaan Okkum of the University of Vyecourf, Published in the Seventeen-Hundred-and-Third Year of Our Lady, May Her Wisd...

A mountain slope covered by snow. On top, the warriors of the Snow-Fang Tribe and the soldiers of the Empire. Only one side emerges victorious. Years later, the commander of the empire, believed to be dead, visits the Snow-Fang Tribe and reunites with an unexpected enemy....

A story about the tragic medieval princess, Joan of England. The worst plague to ever devastate the world is unknown in England. As millions of people die, Princess Joan travels to mainland Europe and facing what poor and royal alike must face -- that death is imminent....

Thalon has been a monk his entire life. He worshiped and served the Gods whose magic wards off the dangers to the world of Vaelia. He believed their promise that the hardships of life will be rewarded with salvation upon death. Then he learns the truth. The source of their magic is the souls of the...

ARC 1 — 'THE FORLORN KINGDOM' — done.ARC 2 — 'THE FIELDS OF RED' — done.ARC 3 — 'THE WANDERING FOREST' — undergoing extensive editing. Trapped in a foreign realm, where reality and the supernatural are blended into a game-like trial all for the amusement of some absurd Deity, Aomori Aiko has to bat...