The First Contact
I shook my head to clear it. This flight had been the most uneventful flight ever. Since the 23rd of July 1945, known as "Liberator Day" due to the 55 Liberators and their crews that never saw their roosts again, the skies over France had been eerily...
Lemurian religions
Over +70,000 years of human occupation, Lemuria boasts a variety of indigenous religions. During both Indian and European colonial rule the indigenous faiths were persecuted, but they still endure strongly and extensive syncretism between them and...
Sun Goddess of Lemuria
The Sun Goddess (Boa in Werer, Ra in Atratra, Aditeyia in Chola Tamil, among others) is a rather important figure in the indigenous religions of Lemuria. While her worship prior to Austronesian arrival is unclear, sun symbols are engraved in building...
An Alternate History For Placodonts
Placodonts were some of the most resilient groups of Triassic marine reptiles, consistently surviving minor extinction events with minimal diversity loss until the mass extinction. In one timeline, this did not happen. Instead, their diversity...
Kripo
**April 10, 1964** The night’s sleep had been pleasant and Hans Decher was snuggled up with his wife Ilse for the first time in what felt like ages. He could hear the soft patter of rain on the window behind the bed frame - along with the...
The Apostle of Freedom
# The Apostle of Freedom О, майко моя, родино мила, защо тъй жално, тъй милно плачеш? Гарване, и ти, птицо проклета, на чий гроб там тъй грозно грачеш? -Христо Ботев “Обесването на Васил Левски” O, maiko moya, rodino mila, Zashto thai...
Dividend We Stand
Midnight November the fifth 1866. Ten miles from the Mississippi River. As the Confederates slept in their trenches and as the soldiers on duty patroled around the camp, something moved in the shadows cast by the torches next to the commanders tent....
The Moonhound Chapter One
Here it is, the **full chapter one of _The Moonhound_** , my forthcoming novella and the planned first book in the Wakerobin Hollow series! (The chapter may change a bit since I'm still editing and revising the book.) If you like it, please click...
Home in Lagrange (part 1)
**-=Home in Lagrange=-** **-Part 1-** **F** lint Hobten took in a deep breath of the cool morning air, stretching himself as he walked along the small, dirt road that led from his small home in the countryside to the hamlet where he worked, the...
Cog in the machine
# Dragon walker: Cog in the machine Inside any ship lies a dragon. Eating water and coal, breathing smoke and steam. The hunger of the dragon never dies, it’s metal mouth open to devour all you give it. Feeding this flame was the job of the coal boys....
Take A Chance On Me Epilogue
Stockholm, Summer 2010 The kind gentle eyes of the king Karl Gustavus III Josephus stared down at Timeo and the milling crowds behind him. Despite his frequent visits, he’d never seen it. At the time, parts of the palace were open to...
A Day of Infamy
**December 7, 1941 Lower Decks of the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu** It was a calm winter night in the North Pacific as the Japanese battle fleet began making preparations for their planned attack, months in the making and the result of a...