"Apprentice ostler ignores warnings in associating with a rebellious upper class young lady."
Having spent the morning tending to the horses and cleaning out each of the ten occupied stalls, Jack Wetherly, apprentice ostler on the Brandling estate, closed the large stable doors. The rough mix of straw, hay and horse shit was...
"Royal princess thwarts father's wishes and discovers love"
The head eunuch entered my quarters, bowed, and excused himself for arriving unannounced. “Princess Jasmin, your father requests your presence at dinner tonight.”“Does he?”“He requests that you make yourself the most beautiful you can and also requests that you borrow...
"Take Pride in the way you have lived your life"
"It was a green heron. I'm sure of it. I was strolling along towards the embankment and then saw it standing in the water. I stopped to look. It was having none of that. It flew away. But I'm certain it was a...
"Marion protects her lover by humiliating sacrifice"
They had almost made it. Almost. Now, though, Marion was tied spread-eagle in a frame, naked; facing Willum, her new husband, who was similarly bound.Her troubles were manifold, not the least of which was that whilst she was newly married...
"One possible explantation of our heritage. A 1000-word story."
They lay, entwined, with arms and legs clasping each other, sharing the afterglow that their sex always gave them.The dark was complete now, total blackness, leaving their sense of sight useless. They had watched the embers of the fire wink...
"In late Elizabethan England, the poet John Donne is poised to make a life-changing choice..."
He thought he’d be in love before, but he was quite wrong. He knew that now.Donne leant against a stone pillar in the shadows of the Great Hall, glass of wine in hand, apparently laconically surveying the elaborately masked dancers...
"A Cliff Bradley mystery investigating a missing person case"
The perfume in the room was suffocating, almost to the point of being lethal. The four women seated on the large sofa ranged in age from a few years past puberty to several years beyond menopause. They all looked beautiful if...
"Beci had heard tales. She hoped they were true."
The ninth century was a time of uncertainty for many people that had settled on the East coast of Britannia. There seemed to be nowhere to hide from the recent raids that saw villages destroyed, men killed, women raped, and...
"His world changed the moment he entered her."
Iona honestly felt that she had done nothing wrong. Regardless, she did feel a tremendous amount of guilt eating away at her. Not only had she seen this man of darkness a total of three times now, she also was...
"Suddenly I was homeless and my future uncertain."
My name is Charles Dickredy and I have lived in the Norfolk Broads, in the year of our lord of eighteen thirty eight, for all of my seventeen years. I know not why I relate this story of love and...