Tag Archives: historical fiction

Warbow

Posted on April 16, 2024 by smellincoffee

Three kings of Europe are leading a crusade in the Holy Land to retake Jerusalem following its fall to the master-of-war, Saladin — and young Roland Inness, a lad whose bow beat even that of Robin of Loxley, is joining … Continue reading →

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Longbow

Posted on April 13, 2024 by smellincoffee

From the treeline, young Roland Inness watches in mute horror as his father is murdered by the local lord’s son, who believe him to be in possession of a longbow that poached a deer. Roland himself wields that bow, and … Continue reading →

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A Morbid Taste for Bones

Posted on April 12, 2024 by smellincoffee

A brother at the monastery lies abed ranting and raving: the man who volunteered to watch him through the night falls asleep and wakes with a vision, one of a blessed saint who promising healing to the afflicted brother if … Continue reading →

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No King, No Country

Posted on April 8, 2024 by smellincoffee

Will Inness fought for Parliament and Cromwell, but now he’s a wanted man. His crime was speaking up for his men, who were owed back pay, and pleading that they be given some land in the country for which they … Continue reading →

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Hunting a Detroit Tiger

Posted on March 28, 2024 by smellincoffee

Utility infielder Mickey Rawlings is in a fix. A man trying to organize baseball players into a union has been shot dead, and everyone is saying Mickey did it. In self defense, sure, so the police don’t care: indeed, the … Continue reading →

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Short rounds: The Office, sword-making, and love in the time of yellow fever

Posted on December 19, 2023 by smellincoffee

The Office BFFs, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey.   Foes on the show, but IRL best friends Jenna and Angela here deliver a very personal memoir of not just the show, but of their friendship over the years – forged … Continue reading →

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Devil’s Pact

Posted on November 15, 2023 by smellincoffee

Jack Tanner is just a working class lad from the west country. He doesn’t belong aboard a transport plane, waiting for his turn to jump into the darkness with an aim of landing somewhere in Sicily, hopefully to meet the … Continue reading →

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Hellfire

Posted on November 8, 2023 by smellincoffee

August, 1942. The English and the Germans have been trading punches with bloody noses for a while now, and while American tanks and G.I’s are on the way, the Desert Fox is still plenty dangerous — as he proves when … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday & Teasin’

Posted on August 22, 2023 by smellincoffee

Today’s TTT is a ‘genre freebie’, and my first thought was near-future SF, but I did that one in spring. Whoopsie. Well, in honor of my current read, The Four Winds, I’m going to spotlight Historical Fiction, and restrict authors … Continue reading →

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Day of Atonement

Posted on August 18, 2023 by smellincoffee

Over a decade ago, young Sebastião Fox was spirited away from Portugal, a freshly-minted orphan. His parents destroyed by the Inquisition, Sebastião came into the care of the now-aged Benjamin Weaver, London’s most accomplished thieftaker. After coming of age and … Continue reading →

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