Theroaring20s Stories

In the new decade of the 1920's, the nation started market new ideas and products making the trade stocks booming. During this time, a boy named Thomas, gets tired of his routine working everyday endlessly in the farm. His father expects high demands for him leading to hate his guts. The boy's family done everything they can for him to love his dad, only not taking their words seriously. Until one day out of nowhere, his house went up in flames during a electrical thunder storm! Lucky, he and his brother Johnny, escaped the flames watching in horror. For that, the authorities took the boys to Chicago where there Uncle lived. The kids once thought that there Uncle was a kind, outgoing man back in town like he's always been . Only that they soon found out who he really was behind the mask....

"Let them sing of the girls of long, long ago. Who were shocked if their elbow or stockings did show but I'll chant of the maidens whose ankles are free to show their half-socks, and the shape of their knees, let them praise those back numbers who turned in their toes and panted and fainted when MEN would propose; compared to the short-skirted, bob-haired fry who meet all proposals with right to the eye. Let them shed all their tears in a crocodile pour for the simple simp sister who flourished of yore but I'll cast my vote in the way I fell- for the girl self-reliant, bright, snappy and RIGHT" Palatyne Flâner grew up in a middle-class family in 1900's France, her perfect cookie-cutter life was pulled apart by war and death. Taking her life into her own hands, she runs off to join the nurses in the front line, there she meets the fiery spirit that is Phryne Fisher; together, the two patch wounds and comfort the injured soldiers till the war is won. Unsatisfied with the life she had returned to, Palatyne follows Phyane to the hot, vast and diverse country of Australia, where they soon become the unexpected solvers of complex murders.

1897 - The Alps, Switzerland What was meant to be bonding between father and son became a fight between life and death. Caught in a storm in the depths of the wilderness, young Theodor Holm transformed to a being that could not be explained, not even by the most wise of men. Cold of heart, Theodor grew into a man of uncontrollable power - power that would lead to the destruction of purity. "Ignite a fire within me," the blue of his fingertips touched the rim of the glass, "save my soul." He whispered against the fog of his breath.