That day in Dachau
“Fear festers,” pop told him all through childhood. “Step in, step through, but don’t be hindered by fear. Yet always respect it.”...
Category: historical fiction short stories
Historical fiction short stories.
A New Normal
Daddy came back from the war a spiritually wounded man. His joyful eyes no longer sparkled. His big, booming voice also changed. Words came out slower and softe...
A Warsaw Ghetto Deportation
She was in the line, the one you didn’t want to be in, the one leading to the deportation train going to Treblinka, a death camp. We all knew that’s...
She is. A Union Army Soldier.
“Why shouldn’t a woman fight in the war?” Eliza asked her sister. “Because you can’t, and so you mustn’t. And many are dying...
“Always do what’s right.”
“Always do what’s right,” papa would tell me growing up. “Even when doing so is difficult.” Papa was a naturally good man with a g...
Love, Life and Bubbe Wisdom
It was Hollywood’s glamor time, and Liza Mendel was Hollywood’s glamor woman. Tall, poised, with a radiating smile, people stopped and stared when s...
Yellow Roses for a Lotus Flower
Shattered nerves and alcohol. That’s what became life for Wilbur Jones, a man once known for his wide smile and many friendships. Back in those brighter d...
“A Kind of Love”: a historical fiction short story
“Love is easy, it just happens. Relationships require much work,” mama told me as we walked along the lake near her home. Mama had done what few wom...
Leaving Home: A Time to Emigrate
Aron didn’t fear much in life. He was a fighter by nature. As a kid, he often came home with scrapes and black eyes, dried blood on his face. “What ...
The Love Story of Jimmy and Maria
People say tattoos tell stories. For Jimmy, some were of his family, while others covered scars from bullet holes and stab wounds, and the one on his neck from ...
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