Byzantine Stories

Greece and Turkey. 2 countries without the slightest similarity, have been arguing and at each other's throats since the beginning of time. But when Greece slips an insu...

The story follows the journey of Duchess Eleni Notarus as she is captured and brought to the castle of Sultan Mehmed the second and how she survives there and becomes on...

....He wished he had knew better He had done better He did realise his mistakes but it was too late. He wished he had done better.

A paper I have been writing on and off for awhile, going over the history of Byzantium as concisely as I can.

A young herald visits a new town and moves a young woman to action

A ten minute short story, based on the legend of the general Belisarius being blinded by his Emperor, Justinian. It is almost certainly a legend, and not fact, but it ma...

In the 11th century AD, the ailing Byzantine Empire teeters on the brink of full-blown war with the Seljuk Sultanate. In the borderlands of Eastern Anatolia, a land rive...

// AN ANCIENT CITY // A USURPER SWORN TO A SECRET CULT // A VIOLENT PLOT // A SET OF PURPLE WINGS UNFURLING IN THE NIGHT. The Season 1 finale of Wrong Station. Find more...

Three people with three different perspectives live through the First Crusade siege of Nicaea. Submission for Historical Fiction Spring 2013 Smackdown, Round 2. For this...

The last city of the Romans is under threat from the expanding Turks. Will it survive?

The story of a monk and a soldier set a few years before the reconquest of Constantinople by the Franks. In an era when religion played a great part not only in people's...

"If Lovino and Veneziano hate me, daddy, I don't know how to fix it." Gemma stared at her legs that were conveniently folded in front of her. "You don't n...

Thousands of years ago, Byzantium was destroyed by an unknown power. Melina was creating a spell at a similar time, and because of the context of the time it happened, s...

A vagrant wanders in from the frigid wastes of a distant human colony, seeking refuge from the cold in the local officers' mess. This unassuming man has done and seen th...

A Byzantine spy questions the motives of God as he records the horrors of the Crusade.