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...

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 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...

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

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...

....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.

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...

// 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...

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

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...

I started writing this a while ago, It's not that good, you may notice a tone change as my inspirations to keep writing changed. Anyway, this is basically a summary of A...

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 story of the last day of Constantine XI Palaeologus as he led his men once more against the ottomans

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...

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...

Rome has fallen. Constantinople, the last bastion of Christianity in the East has been sacked by the Ottoman Turks finally bringing an end to the ancient empire and the...

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