George Whitefield and the American Revolution
Weeping echoed in the parsonage. How could it be?
Musings of a Soldier at Valley Forge
m a Massachusetts man, born in seventeen fifty-eight…
47th Regiment of Foot: A Short Story
It did not take a Bostonian to know that the dockyards and wharfs of Boston were full of the poor…
Toy Soldiers
BY RAY E. LIPINSKI “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” Corporal Jesse Wyatt figured he had about two more hours of sunlight before he could escape to freedom. The forest of Pine Barrens was no more than a hundred yards from the dilapidated farmhouse he had taken …...
A Godless Paradise
BY LIAM KIYASHKA I wake to light—blinding, brilliant, and unfamiliar. I don’t remember dying, but I know, with certainty, that I am no longer alive. Although I’d been sleeping, I find myself standing at the top of a flight of stairs, which leads down to a street. They’re dark-tan in color, with an intricate, delicately …...
A Beacon for Losers
“I draw them like heat-seeking missiles,” thought Hannah, sitting on the steps of the Alexander Library. “That’s the only…
Thomas Jefferson Survives
BY LEAH FISHER It was six o’clock in Quincy, Massachusetts, and would have been considered evening if the summer had not prolonged the days. The unpleasant mixture of heat and humidity might remind one of former days in Philadelphia. But here laid an old man dying. His strength at last was failing, and his kin …...
Penelope and the Seven Spiders
By Amanda Pizzolatto
The Maiden of the Mountain
BY LUCY RUTHERFORD In the Mountains of Morning, long ago and long ago, at the edge of Day and Night, there once was a house built entirely of a single block of white stone, and it had no windows but only a door that was never any way but shut. The house stood in the …...
Flight of the Primrosa
The two away teams returned with primarily good news, all but one of the species on the planet called Plestra were interested in learning more about space and the ways of the Roscae. That one species, the ordog, were rather strange.
