Browsing Historical Stories

Joy takes a break after the stressful breakup of her relationship and visits a small village in Cornwall she purchased a book from an old book shop and is transported back to an earlier period with some surprising results.

He woke up loving her, but the fire would erase him before nightfall. For 1,188 days, Ada Smelcher has relived the same tragedy — the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire — trying to save Yosef Litvak, the man who forgets her every morning. Armed only with a copper wire and fading hope, Ada must teach his hands to remember what his heart cannot. But when the loop finally breaks, will love survive the flames, or will she face another dawn alone?

Bound by duty. Betrayed by love. Reborn by choice.

During another ordinary day, Elise realises that her life has become far from what she had expected and hoped for. She does not seem to remember how she ended up working a position she had never even thought about. She navigates her challenges and reconnects with her previous interest and hobbies finding her true self and passion.

Travel back to Roman Britain in the year 304 AD, a time when faith could cost you everything and courage could change the course of history.  

She has always known she was different — shy, thoughtful, and torn between her Plebeian roots and whispers of an ancient secret that her family refuses to speak of. But when an unexpected tragedy thrusts her into the dangerous political world of the Early Roman Republic, she faces truths that will alter the course of her life — and Rome's history — forever.

She runs through an old dark house, as she suddenly sees lights and a costume party. Well, nothing unusual on halloween, but are those really only people in costumes? Why is she hearing her name more than once and why seems to follow her a mystery mist, everywhere she goes? And for all, why she seems to be transparent. Who is the ghost, who is the living person?

Ted’s Shorts – and no, before you ask, this has nothing to do with my choice of summer wardrobe, although I am partial to a comfy pair in the summer, nor is it a reference to my modest height of 5’6” when standing proudly in socks. Instead, within these pages you’ll find a collection of twenty-one short stories – my “shorts” of a rather more literary kind. 

This piece is inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous short story "The Yellow Wallpaper", which is about the mental decline of an anonymous narrator who is confined to a nursery by her physician husband under the guise of "treatment" for her nervous depression. As her imprisonment continues, the narrator shows an increasing obsession with the yellow paper on the wall. She ends up liberating herself only when she pulls the paper off. My story is an imagined sequal to Gilman's work, exploring how the narrator haunts a new version of herself, emphasising the cyclicality of women's treatment in the medical sphere.

Rise of the Magi