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My Friend, Norma Jean

by jerry lucero

Short Story / Historical Fiction

March 04, 2012

7 days reads: 7

Comments: 4

Summary

Historical Fiction about America's Sweetheart, Marilyn Monroe.

Slave Trade

by Charlotte Frances

Short Story / Historical Fiction

February 17, 2010

7 days reads: 3

Comments: 3

Shelves: 1

Summary

A short story about a young slave who was up for auction. I worte this for school so it is not amazing.

The Tapkendi Tale

by Bar'ngetuny

Short Story / Historical Fiction

October 29, 2016

7 days reads: 3

Summary

A short story set in the Kenyan Rift Valley

Atlantic Inferno: the story of the Lakonia

by Logan McGregor

Short Story / Historical Fiction

March 08, 2023

7 days reads: 3

Summary

Edward is a 2nd class passenger aboard Greek lines 'Lakonia', an ocean liner built in 1930. when the ship bursts into flames, Edward is faced with the possibility of being in a new country, with no parents, as he wonders if his father is alive. unsure of his fate, with nothing except his thoughts as he drifts through the Atlantic.

A diary of a Chinese Miner

by MaybeItWasNeverLove

Short Story / Historical Fiction

July 12, 2013

7 days reads: 2

Comments: 2

Shelves: 2

Summary

During the racist times of the gold rush, a Chinese miners travels to Australia in search of fortune. But with the westerners hatred so strong and the surroundings so foreign, what would you do if you were the odd one out?

Attack of the Dead Men

by dylanfourie02

Short Story / Historical Fiction

August 05, 2021

7 days reads: 2

Shelves: 2

Summary

The Attack of the Dead Men was a battle between the German and the Russian army during the Great War at Osowiec Fortress.

Path of the Samurai

by Matthew Bissonnette

Short Story / Historical Fiction

April 20, 2010

7 days reads: 1

Comments: 3

Summary

My short story is about the life of Kusunoki Mishima, a man who was born towards the end of feudal japan and became a great Samurai.

Day at the Colosseum

by Matthew Bissonnette

Short Story / Historical Fiction

December 09, 2011

7 days reads: 1

Comments: 2

Summary

A man spends the day watching the violence of the Roman games, but what he will witness will change everything.

The Old Lie

by Karen Talbot

Short Story / Historical Fiction

August 08, 2011

7 days reads: 1

Comments: 4

Summary

Based in the aftermath of the First World War, this is a story of a forgotten hero. Tommy made it home. He was one of the lucky ones, wasn't he?

9-11 creative writing.

by Nelly Norbit

Short Story / Historical Fiction

March 26, 2012

7 days reads: 1

Comments: 2

Shelves: 3

Summary

This is an english assessment and a friend toold me to post it. It's a very short piece of creative writing about 9-11. Please enjoy and leave comments good and bad :)

An Officer and a Scoundrel

by Departed From Reality

Short Story / Historical Fiction

March 02, 2008

7 days reads: 1

Summary

Set in the 1600's on a private island off of Staten Island, a retired British naval officer dwells in depression after loosing his wife. After deciding to leave and go back to London, he is visited by two unsuspecting but well known visitors.

Imagine...Steampunk

by HappyAdventureTales

Short Story / Historical Fiction

July 26, 2013

7 days reads: 1

Comments: 3

Summary

A short and quirky steampunk story. The Victorian era is an age of spies and espionage and London is the centre of that. But everything is about to change and what really happened can only be found in imagination.

The Figurine

by The Wordweilder

Short Story / Historical Fiction

June 16, 2016

7 days reads: 1

Summary

The story is set during the Hool Revolution in Bengal,India in the early 1850s prior to the Revolt of 1857. Gives a glimpse at the life of the native people at that time and what led to such a revolution.

As If We Stayed

by A. Meryl

Short Story / Historical Fiction

June 20, 2017

7 days reads: 1

Summary

NOTE: This work contains graphic violence. A work in progress, adding little bits at a time. It covers the journey home from war undertaken by a functional nihilistic sadist.

Ragnarok

by Alta Roma

Short Story / Historical Fiction

March 13, 2018

7 days reads: 1

Comments: 1

Shelves: 2

Summary

This is a short story of Norse mythology's Ragnarok. This is as true to the original myths as I could make it, with a few writer's creative liberties of course.

An Act of Mercy for a Savage Little Fish

by Matthew Bissonnette

Short Story / Historical Fiction

June 04, 2019

7 days reads: 1

Comments: 1

Summary

A story from the point of view of a savage fish protecting his young.

God is Fear

by VeN0m333

Short Story / Historical Fiction

November 26, 2019

7 days reads: 1

Summary

One raised through a world of religious experiences how God is truly used from one follower to another.

Alexander's mirror

by Ali Al-Zaak

Short Story / Historical Fiction

December 13, 2020

7 days reads: 1

Summary

Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, and student of Plato tutored the prince until sixteen. Following the assassination of his father Philip II in 336 BC, he took up the throne of the Macedon monarchy at the age of twenty. (Image from Alejandro Magno campaign two battles of Alexander the Great.jpg)

Operation Damaliscus

by Tristan Biggs

Short Story / Historical Fiction

June 06, 2023

7 days reads: 1

Summary

The events in this tale actually occurred. They are based on a research project I worked on centered on a herd of Blesbok that lived on the farm where my dad worked. The tragedy that befell the herd, sadly, are also factual.