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• A Visit with History (Summer Vacation Challenge)

  by SKermitgorf 2 months ago

  We hiked through Balls Bluff Virginia Battlefield, using sticks as fake guns. Crouching behind long since fallen and rotted …

• One Small Change (XXVI)

  by Capital "W" Writer (LoA's Geekus Awesomeus) 5 months ago

  “How bad?” I asked them.

  “Well,” Alex said, taking a moment to think. He suddenly smirked. “Remember when you decided that K…

• Civil War? WHAT Civil War? Part II

  by Amo de Tuus Aetas et Mors 5 months ago

  The Farmer’s Union and Confederate troops began to position their simplistic cannons. The year was 1923, after all, and the N…

• The Civil War? WHAT Civil War?

  by Amo de Tuus Aetas et Mors 5 months ago

  “Dammit soldier!” General Beckett stood straight up, anger in his eyes. “There’s no way we’re going to hold ‘em off like this…

• The Gray and the Blue: Stovohobo Inspired; Tale of the Civil War

  by SKermitgorf 7 months ago

  I woke up in a rowboat with a makeshift sail stitched of gray uniform fabric. The Major is unconscious. The Captain is dead. ...

• The Wilderness

  by MRay 9 months ago

  I found his body at the foot of an oak tree, his face torn with the agony of being shot twice. He knew it was coming. He told…

• The Patterson Brothers' Take on the Pledge.

  by Mask By The Moon about 1 year ago

  I pledge allegiance to the flag,
  promising loyalty to a cloth. This country is NUTS!

  Of the United States of America.
  _Wai…

• Yoda'lling on.

  by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago

  “Interesting what?”

  “Just interesting.”

  “No, really. Interesting hat? You like my beard? You’ve never heard of the United S…

• Searching For Junk

  by uselessness about 1 year ago

  “I’m looking for a treasure.”

  “We have many treasures. Which do you seek?”

  Your untrained eyes see nothing but corrosion; y…