Historical Fiction

Echoes at Thermopylae

Approx. 16 min read

He loved Sparta from a distance. That was the safest way to love it. Not the actual city, with its slaves and hunger and boys trained into instruments, but the clean idea of it.

The Village That History Forgot

Approx. 21 min read

When Mara first saw the village, it was raining. Not hard. Not the dramatic rain of old films and schoolbook paintings, but a thin, miserable rain that soaked the wool of her borrowed cloak and found its way through every seam.

The Breathing Cave

Approx. 21 min read

The cave was not hard to find if you knew what you were looking for, but it did not invite finding. It lay along the coast of Eigg, tucked beneath black rock and long grass, with the sea worrying at the stones below like a dog with a bone. In fair weather the entrance seemed only a wound in the cliff, narrow and shadowed, easy to pass by if a man was thinking of sheep, or weather, or the shape of clouds over Rum. But in mist, when the land lost its edges and the sea became a gray breath, the mouth of the cave appeared larger. Not wider, exactly. More awake.

The Archivist

Approx. 20 min read

The Unexplainable Capture

Approx. 5 min read

The Day the Moon Changed its Course

Approx. 6 min read

The Seam In History

Approx. 33 min read

The Tone Between Red Phones

Approx. 20 min read

The Last Gardener of Babylon

Approx. 10 min read

Love in a Time of Revolution

Approx. 3 min read