19th Century
A Bear’s Diary – Part 30
September 3rd, 1811. I have been too much occupied to keep up my diary for several months. We have all been toiling on the improvement of the Bear Inn, which had fallen into some disrepair [more…]
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19th Century
A Bear’s Diary – Part 29
June 9th, 1811. At sea once more, we discovered that two of our crew had deserted, preferring the fleshpots of New York to their homeland and what will certainly be a more than generous reward [more…]
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Victoriana 15
Chapter 15 The departure of the cart had not however, passed unnoticed; little Emmeline Trelawney had hardly been able to sleep, partly because of the excitement of being allowed to accompany her Papa and Mama [more…]
Fiction
Twenty Five, Part Two
Twenty Five is a series of semi autobiographical short stories based on the life and times of a character I have chosen to call Colin Cross. Colin is partly a fiction, an amalgam if [more…]
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Victoriana 14
Chapter 14 Later that night, after a hearty supper of locally caught mackerel, the four were upstairs in Irving and Fingers’s room, trying to make sense of the day’s events. Rusty spread out the documents [more…]
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Victoriana 13
Chapter 13 After they had walked a couple of miles they sat down on a bank at the edge of the road for a rest. Victoriana laboriously unbuttoned her boots and rubbed her feet vigorously. [more…]
Fiction
What Might Have Been, Part One
King Philip of England Yes, he was once King of England, although the English don’t much like to think of him in that way. The man who sent the famous Armada against England in 1588 [more…]
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Victoriana 12
Chapter 12 Rusty did not hesitate. With the briefest of glances at the map, he shouted ‘That one!’ and pointed at the easternmost of the three holes. Irving picked up Victoriana and Fingers seized Rusty, [more…]
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War Crimes Part 6 – Morrison’s Story
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” This is fiction. Any resemblance to any persons living or dead is coincidental. The events [more…]