Bronzeage Stories

In the late Bronze Age, three boys are forced to leave their peaceful village of Chulath'e to fight for the king. This historical fiction asks: what do you do when you do everything they say, go where they say, fight who they say... ...and then discover you are fighting for the WRONG side? How do you fix that? How do you make that right?

Slovenians trying to survive a zombie outbreak in Ljubljana.

Fourth book in the Aether tetralogy. When Falco and Rowena learn that Aether not only still exists, but that the treacherous Taurus Minor, High Priest of the Earth Bull, has returned as well and is now ruling as its king, the Divine Deucalion of Aether and his Queen return to liberate all who have settled there since from a tyrant.

Short stories of people through the ages - their triumphs, failures, loves, and anguishes. Niamh - 250 AD, Ireland. A woman goes home. Epiphania - 1347 AD, Constantinople. A woman struggles with her faith. (WARNING: minimal, mildly graphic content.) Brynja - 1250 BC, Tollense, present-day Germany. A woman reluctantly does her duty. Quincy - 1902 AD, England. A man is out of his depth. A collection of my Historical Fiction Smackdown pieces. Copyright © 2018 giawriter.

Volume one. Queen Isis, the queen of Ancient Egypt, creates a time gate (time travel), but everything will be different when she meets her friend emperor Yao, the emperor of ancient China, and King Sargon, the king of Akkad, it's a story untold yet!

A Gazelle of an ancient time must find his kings stolen treasure. As he traverses through the lands and cities following the Indus River, he sees the reality of the social boundaries predators and prey face. No longer are predators much of a threat, but another kind of predation seeps through the lies.

A tribe by the Thames river has to fight a primitive tribe to the north to secure its grain, but what happens when there is more than grain found in the clutches of the enemy?

I might write oneshots of scenes that inspire me through the fifth...or sixth re-watch of this brilliant series. The pairing or idea for the oneshot will be its title.

The Hartkos has seen every city from Babylon to Egypt. She's defied kings. Led armies. Brokered treaties. Confronted gods. None of it prepared her for raising a child. Now living among the Ekweian nomads at the edge of the known world, the Hartkos once more felt trouble on the wind. Restless gods spoke quarrelsome words that many were all too eager to hear. Change was coming. Could she prepare her daughter to face it in time? Growing up with a legendary mother is hard. Glory, leadership, battle, Ameza couldn't care less, despite her mother's best efforts. Ameza craved only one thing: friends. That is, until the Hartkos' mysterious murder forces Ameza to rethink her future. But when friends become enemies and enemies are sometimes gods, where does one look for help? As powerful gods move mortals like pawns, Erinys, Goddess of Vengeance, is watching. And she does not like what she sees. With sacred laws breaking and secrets afoot, Erinys needs her own pawn to set things right. Who better than the guilt-stricken daughter of the murdered Hartkos to force those secrets to light? The stories of mother and daughter, gods and mortals, intertwine in this merging of myth and history to recount one of the greatest untold stories of history: the origin of the Amazons.

Leern and Kurn argue over the future of their father's inn. In an argument, a possible key to freedom from the inn's shackles is found. However, when they search for their metaphorical key, they meet a mysterious man. When he is reluctant to share his motivation, the brothers become suspicious.

Greek forces battle a minotaur.

A seer journeys to the Heart of the World. Betrayed, injured, and exiled, Weyllan must fulfil his destiny and change the course of history. This is the tale of the Amesbury Archer, goldsmith and mystic; an eye-witness account of the dawn of the Bronze Age in Britain. Weyllan is called to the Temple on the Plain - Stonehenge - to make the life-force flow again, but solving the mystery of his grandfather's disappearance proves more dangerous still. As his power grows, so his foes become more fearsome, until he risks everything in a final battle to restore balance to the land. Part adventure, part mystery, and part biography - this is the story of a man who must have been a legend in his lifetime. "Breathes life into the people of Stonehenge with a heady blend of quests, warfare, ritual and a touch of magic" J.P. Reedman

A poem about the eclipse and how it must have been like living in a time when the Sun was so important, for it to die and then be reborn

In this short story, Turac, the young son of a seer (shaman), has his first vision at the Winter Solstice and saves the day. This little tale is the first in a series based around my forthcoming novel "The Eye of Time", to give you a taste of the Neolithic world I have recreated there. The stories are set around Stonehenge at the end of the Neolithic/dawn of the Bronze Age and I have tried to be accurate in spirit to the evidence we have for those times in the British Isles. Turac, our hero here, will reappear as an old man in the novel, which is set some forty years later. Cover Photograph by Elizabeth Purves, reproduced with permission. Thanks also to my long suffering partner, Katherine, for reading, correcting, and commenting on my writing.

A short story in the Gods Game series. "Unite the Three, Oh child of me. Ash, Shadow, Sky and Flame. Blades under tree, Minds no longer three. Ascend to i, oh child of mine." ___________________________________________________________________ Constructive criticism is always welcome. Please vote, comment and all that. And most importantly, enjoy da words. Cover art made in Nightcafe Studios.

Your husband, Toshinori Yagi aka All Might, and you play some guessing games.

(Posting to RoyalRoad as well) After the destruction of her native city, Ilati must find a way forward to make a new life and avenge the fallen, shedding her old life as high priestess of the goddess of love like a snake leaves its skin. But with a sorcerer at her shoulder that she isn't certain she can trust, a charioteer with a dark curse, a nomadic warrior with a child who is not dead and not alive, and the Mother of Demons herself involved-can she survive? Can she hold onto the righteous path or will revenge drive her to seek another? Great Nysra, who claims her grandfather's title King of Kings, is not about to surrender his grip on the conquered lands. With skin that can turn even gods-blessed bronze and the power to conjure spellfire and lightning, is it possible to even topple his throne? Between his dark gods and his vast army, Ilati faces an impossible task. But woe to the men of Nadar, for they have let a lioness slip between their spears...

Immortals living in present day Ljubljana tell the stories of how they came to be.