Fate Series Preview: The Beginning    by Christina OW
Price: Free! 16420 words. Language: English. Published on April 30, 2013. Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal.
She finally meets a man she instantly has a crush on, on her eightieth birthday and ultimately falls in love with him after their first night together. But Merilee and Ashat have met before, in the worst of situations. Every story has a beginning… this is theirs…

The Plot    by GM Brown
Price: Free! 2630 words. Language: English. Published on April 18, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.
A short fictional story in which the life and times of Jesus Christ is depicted as a carefully orchestrated political plot.

De gouden jakhals    by Jan J.B. Kuipers
Price: $1.50 USD. 6580 words. Language: English. Published on February 11, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.
'Een gouden beeldje van Anubis, de jakhalsgod, de gids van de doden! Het zat duidelijk in die vaas verstopt. Dat betekent vast dat het van de overkant van de Nijl komt, uit de dodenstad. Ik snap nu wel waar Neroepe zijn rijkdom vandaan haalt.' Het meisje Neftis en de Schorpioenman Aanen nemen het in het oude Egypte op tegen een bende grafrovers onder leiding van een rijke koopman.

Wessex Tales: "Julia" (Story 11)    by Robert Fripp
Price: Free! 8960 words. Language: English. Published on January 18, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.
This story in the "Wessex Tales" collection—"Julia" (Story 11)—is sequel to "The Face in the Floor" (Story 10). It was Julia’s parents who commissioned their villa's magnificent mosaic floor in the previous tale; as a child, she watched the master-mosaicist lay it. As "Julia" begins, Julia is a young woman angry at life, angrier at expectations, and resisting marriage. (circa 335 CE)

Camelthorn Giants: Explore    by Jaco de Beer
Price: Free! 4240 words. Language: English. Published by Kameeldoring Boeke  on January 18, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.
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This is a historic novel about Coenraad de Buys and his quest to find the African cities of gold.

Wessex Tales: "The Face in the Floor" (Story 10)    by Robert Fripp
Price: Free! 8170 words. Language: English. Published on January 17, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.
The earliest known mosaic floor to depict Christ was laid in a remote Roman villa in Dorset around 325 CE. (Discovered under meadow grass in 1963 it was moved to the British Museum.) The larger end of this mosaic measures 17 feet by 15, the smaller end, 16½ feet by 8. Why lay this magnificent floor in rustic Dorset? “The Face in the Floor" gives the origins of this floor an imaginative history.

Wessex Tales: "In the land of the great stone rings" (Story 5)    by Robert Fripp
Price: Free! 9070 words. Language: English. Published on January 17, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.
Turig, a Bronze Age farmer, tells his grandson how he had been drafted for labor service decades before. The work was long and dangerous but his supervisor’s flirtatious daughter presented the larger threat. Two years later, Turig helped lift the last sarsen stone onto a structure we know as Stonehenge. [PS: New research revises this date by a full millennium, from 3,600 to 4,600 years ago.]

Wessex Tales: "The Infant and the Hare" (Story 1)    by Robert Fripp
Price: Free! 5150 words. Language: English. Published on January 17, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.
“The Infant and the Hare” is the first, earliest story in Fripp’s new collection, “Wessex Tales: eight thousand years in the life of an English village.” Stone Age hunters make camp on Okeford Hill. As dawn breaks the men go hunting while a woman gives birth. And the end? In an age when human beliefs were much different than ours, the end is mystical.

The Attack in Cappadocia    by Catherine Jaime
Price: $0.99 USD. 5200 words. Language: English. Published on December 18, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Medieval.
Cappadocia is under attack from marauding soldiers during the Byzantine Empire. This short story follows a mother, a group of kids, a priest and a soldier as they react to the attack. The story was inspired by a trip to the region of Cappadocia (Turkey) with its history and unusual geology.

The Princess Of Egypt Must Die    by Stephanie Dray
Price: Free! 18050 words. Language: English. Published on November 27, 2012. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Historical.
Princess Arsinoe came of age in the glittering court of Ptolemaic Egypt. Abused by her ruthless sister, a pawn in the dynastic ambitions of her father, and dismissed by the king who claimed her for a bride, young Arsinoe finds herself falling in love with a young man forbidden to her. (Novelette, 11k words.)