2023-2024 Looking Ahead from November 1

These last two months of 2023 will see the third of the three novelettes posted

A Holiday Journey is a Christmas story. This one has the music. Christopher Shepherd’s niece Lilly, his only living family member, is spirited away and Uncle Chris must go in search of her. There are adventures and revelations along the way. Enjoy.

In case you missed them, the other two novelettes can be found in the archives.

1. Ghosts is a story where everyone dies in the first chapter.  Old man Nathan and seven year-old Mya are left to make their way in… they are not sure where they are or where they should be.

This story posted from August 29–September 4, 2023. Ghosts is also available under the Stories to Read tab on the website. Click on Strange Tales and you will find it.

2. Charmed is a Halloween story that brought us to Halloween ( or rather today November first). It is an old fashioned Disney-like story but without the singing. Jake takes his baby sister Elizabeth trick-or-treating and gets distracted by his friends. Elizabeth is kidnapped and taken to a very strange place. Jake can only follow.

Charmed was posted entirely in October, 2023, so that should be easy to find in the archives.

2024 Coming Attractions

Beginning MONDAY January 1, 2024

Kairos Medieval: Medieval Tales  The story of Genevieve and Charlemagne, the story of Thegn Elgar and Alfred the Great, and finally, the stories of Kristina the shield maiden and Yasmina, Princess of Mecca and Medina, two young women whose stories are intertwined, almost like twins, though they are separated by more than thirty years.

Interlude (TBA)

Kairos Medieval: Before Sunrise The book begins with the second stories of Kristina and Yasmina where they are forced to marry the wrong person, get out of that bad situation, and marry the right person, and the book ends with the story of Don Giovanni and his circus: The Greatest Show on Earth. (He stole that line from the future but he figures no one will sue him in the year Y1K).

Note

For those of you who read the two Kairos Medieval stories of Greta, the Wise Woman of Dacia, with her two partners in time, Festuscato, the Last Senator of Rome and Gerraint in the Days of King Arthur, and especially for those who went on to read the two Kairos Medieval books of Marguerite, where Festuscato and Gerraint finished their stories as well, it seemed only fair to post the last two books in the Kairos Medieval group. Notice I used the word group, not series.

I am reluctant to call them book 5 and book 6 in a series. I don’t want anyone to think they have to read books 1-4 to understand what is going on in books 5 and 6. I  am also reluctant to call them a series, for that matter, because it is not that kind of a series. Each lifetime of the Kairos is a story unto itself. Even when the story is split between two books as with Margueritte and Greta, I work hard to make each “half” a complete story with a beginning, middle, and end that comes to a satisfying conclusion and doesn’t leave cliffhangers.

So, if you read the stories of Greta and Margueritte, great. But if you didn’t read those stories that should not make any difference. Medieval Tales and Before Sunrise are stories unto themselves. I only hope you will enjoy them.

But First

A Holiday Journey is a Christmas story. It was first posted in 2019 at the beginning of the COVID scare and I am not sure that many people read it. We all had other things on our minds. This time, I hope you will relax and enjoy the story, and maybe get in the right mood for the holidays. I hope you had a happy Halloween and look forward to a happy Christmas. Until Monday, Happy Reading.

 

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