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Die Teufelsbrücke
People always get the wrong end of the stick when I tell them that my grandad was a Nazi. I mean, of course he was in the Leipzig branch of…
Read NowThe Reenactors in my Town are Acting Strange
Let me just begin by saying that even though I’m not the biggest computer geek in the world, or by any means what you would refer to as an “iPad…
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The Brazilian Blood Trials
Hello, dear reader, whoever you may be. If you are reading this document, it is likely that I have been dead for quite some time. By the time you are…
Read NowLetters from the Caverns
June 06 Whence I hail is of little consequence, for I have long considered myself a vagabond. Yet do not mistake me for a man without purpose, for mine is…
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Bread and Circuses
WHEN THE CIRCUS CAME, everything changed. Small towns rebuilt themselves into boisterous cities overnight. Weary farmers and their wives glowed with renewed vigor. Life was transformed from a series of…
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News From the Front
Awash with terror, I lay in bed jumping and flinching at every creak. The old country house had always made such noises at night. The beams would creak, the windows…
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Midnight at the mountains of Mourne
I remember the first time I saw the Mourne Mountains in the mist. It was a Friday, just after the rain had passed, and the clouds were still clinging to…
Read NowTHE HARRIMAN FILES: 1945 [DECLASSIFIED 1987]
In the direct aftermath of World War II, two major meetings among world leaders were held: the Yalta Conference and the Potsdam Conference. We view these meetings now with hindsight…
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The Yellow-Eyed Devils
Adventure. Adventure is what I craved. I wanted to gain the fruits of life that I had so long been denied in my youth—and, in those days, those fruits could…
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The Wall, the Gunman, and the Banshee
I’ve waited over twenty-five years to tell my story. I could have taken it to my grave, but I wish to unburden myself before I meet my maker. I’m not…
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The 8th Shrine
It was in the late 80's, a few years before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. I lived in Moscow where I studied Archaeology. I had a roommate from Tbilisi…
Read NowSee Ya Soon
A dusty hardwood bank in the middle of a no-name, tumbleweed town is shaken by the shockwaves of gunfire and screams. A rough, calloused young man in simple attire runs…
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Ghost of the Trenches
November 11, 1918 9:00 am The war was coming to an end and Heinrich knew it. The Yankees had gotten involved and the once great German Empire was surrounded on…
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The Old Lie of the Dead Lands
The Old Lie of the Dead Lands 'frankness as never before, disillusions as never told in the old days, hysterias, trench confessions, laughter out of dead bellies. There died a…
Read NowTell Them Increase
Honorable C.S.H.M: I was there when it started four years ago to the day. I, the baker and Mathias, my friend the farrier. We walked the quaint cobblestone streets of…
Read NowThe Passage
Obsessed with a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. - Eugene O’Neill I I am in many ways blessed,…
Read NowBrooks Brother’s Hardware Store
The Brooks Brother’s Hardware store stood alone on its main street block. Chipped layers of white-washed paint contrasted the darkness inside the tall narrow windows. Faded posters advertising Case knives…
Read NowBefore the Revelation
December 15th, 1985 Joram Bernstein Well, time surely does fly. It’s already been forty years since my wonderful stay in Auschwitz. To my surprise, I’m not horribly tormented by the…
Read NowMr Conrad’s Final Tale
I am certain that my fascination with the gone and forgotten stems from my own fear of impermanence. Leaving something behind when I am gone is of utmost importance to…
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The Legend of Carter Bale
The roaring twenties became a different time for all of America as the economy took a massive plummet. The depression sank about every industry like a stone and families of…
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The Primeval Horror
Please do not come looking for me upon reading this letter, for the likelihood of my death is now more certain than it ever was before. I refused to heed…
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