Byzantine Stories

Michael Jameston, a 55-year-old American book sales executive and former silkscreen craftsman, awakens to an impossible reality: he now inhabits the body of Constantine...

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...

BOOK 1 - Rusticus' Journey In 395 AD, a young librarian named Rusticus discovers a plot by Theophilus, the powerful Archbishop of Alexandria, to alter sacred Christian t...

The Year is 1453, The Byzantine Empire is on it's knees. The Emperor has called all of his people including those under Ottoman rule to escape to the sea and go west. So...

The year is 1071, Emperor Romanos Diogenes just lost his army in the Battle of Manzikert. The crows gather over the Empire, as it is engulfed by intrigue, civil strife a...

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...

A bunch of stuff in history that could've happened, but didn't. Note: Heavily inspired by AlternateHistoryHub and Mister Z. Another good alternative history book is &qu...

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...

The year is 626 AD, and the Byzantine Empire is winding into its last years at war with its eternal enemy, Persia. Thrust into the fray is a young man, Aeneas, who hails...

// 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...

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

The story tells of a varangian guard, who survived the fall of Constantinople. In order to save a Byzantine noblewoman, who, unbeknownst to him, was her best friend, she...

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

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...

The Byzantine Empire... Once thriving until he fell due to being conquered by The Ottomans in 1453 CE. Ever since... he's just been a civilization in the shadows... Doin...