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Step back in time and experience World War II through the stories of the people who lived through it. Witness the horror of a prison camp march. Experience the sinking of a US warship. Watch a young French freedom fighter outsmart the Nazis. True Stories of World War II doesn’t just tell you the tales of war. It drops you into the thick of combat.

Welcome to the Museum of the Omniverse where you can safely experience actual events from every possible part of time and space. The museum is having some technical difficulties, however. Space time rifts have been opening throughout the museum and everyone has disappeared except for Mirandum, an exhibit curator. When a small group of visitors appears, Mirandum gives them a tour of the museum’s Dragon Exhibit while searching for clues to the museum’s ultimate fate.

A Holocaust Story about a diverse group of Hungarian friends who have decided to throw one last party before they are deported. Tonight they are celebrating their lives and their very existence. In Timothy Kirby's 4000 word short story we are introduced to some very interesting characters from Budapest, circa 1944 and what it was like for them to be Gay Hungarian Jews during this critical time when the Nazi regime threatened to destroy and wipe off the face of the earth such a population.

Civil War Weekly is a podcast that examines what happened this week 160 years ago during the American Civil War. We will be taking a week by week journey through the narrative of the Civil War from Fort Sumter to Appomattox and beyond.

This Easter, six-year-old Mary Chan is going to have an old fashioned Easter Egg hunt with her Aunt Gerry...oh, the horror! You see, Aunt Gerry is a lonely spinster who lives all by herself on an enormous farm in downstate Illinois. Not to mention that she keeps quite a collection of steamer trunks in her dark, dusty attic. Timothy Kirby's short story, taken from his book, THE SIREN OF SINGAPORE (2010), is one that won't soon be forgotten. So fasten your Easter bonnets,it's going to be a bumpy night!

Here's a unique twist on the Cinderella story. This is an amusing, wry tale of a king's son, a neighboring king's daughter, a sulky dragon - and the wise Greenman.

When the notorious pirate captain Redbone forms a new band of buccaneers, the Pirates Born of Iron and Blood, honor is a matter of life or death. Redbone’s grand idea seems reasonable—at least in a world where pirates also rule the high seas and many of the seaports. The Bloody Hag, a cold and ghastly-looking device, was created from Redbone’s imagination for this one purpose only: to bring together only the pirates worthy of the honor of wearing its mark of honor on their wrist. In Redbone’s world, you might end up dead if you aren’t a member of his bloody band of brothers.

Lillian Newburg isn’t concerned when she finds a gold card with a note stuck under her car windshield. Concerned, no. Curious, yes. Who would write such a note? Is someone from her office playing a joke? She stuffs the note in her pocket and forgets about it. But this note is no joke. A mysterious stranger has told Lillian that she is in mortal danger. If she continues to ignore the message, what happens next won’t be the stranger’s problem.

The 16-year-old girl disappeared after school on an October afternoon. The police have exhausted all leads. It’s been weeks, but her mother, Barbara, will not stop searching for Melissa. Her husband, Mark, has given up…and started drinking. Her younger daughter Rachel feels neglected. The police think she is a nuisance. Her job is in jeopardy. But even more mysterious things begin happening around Barbara. The shadows that have no source…a dark form glimpsed beneath Melissa’s bed...the ravens that have congregated on the lawn.

StarBash is the hottest thing on TV. Featuring desperate actors facing off in madcap competitions to win a movie deal, the reality show is famous for making fools of its fame-starved participants. So it seems odd that respected Hollywood A-lister Cassandra "Casmo" Moreaux would become a contestant. But her motivation is simple: revenge against the program's producer, Lenora Danmore, the legendary movie star who blacklisted Casmo's mother during the McCarthy era. Casmo plans to use StarBash to confront and embarrass Lenora in front of the entire country.

Ollie Buckmeyer is funny, popular, and lives an idyllic life with his family on one of the last cattle ranches in Southern California. But when he suffers a devastating brain injury, his wonderful world is shattered. Even though he still looks like the same old Ollie, his family mourns as if he had died, his friends don't know him, and the girl he loves is gone. Everything that matters is taken from him...but something is also given: Ollie has an amazing new talent that might be powerful enough to rebuild his life.

A new brotherhood formed by a blood ritual. The Iron Born Pirates feared and hated above all swashbucklers, were considered the most ruthless band of Buccaneers sailing upon the Spanish Main. They rob and destroy at will, with no one to end their reign of terror. They are brothers of blood until the end of life. Shipwrecked…abandoned…rescued by the enemy. Should he save a pirate’s life to gain his freedom?

Joanie is an orpan who lives with her aunt in a poor urban neigihborhood. She longs for so much more in life than what she has. Her life changes after she answers an extraordinary classified ad, put in the paper by the marvelously eccentric Mrs. Applegate. Soon, Joanie finds herself working for Mrs. Applegate and her world is given fresh, new meaning. But Mrs. Applegate isn't who she seems to be. Everything isn't always peaches and honey when Joanie is forced into a life-altering decision inside the deceptive walls of Mrs. Applegate's House of Worship...

Eleven year-old Simon Schreiner has quite an eye for bargains. On this particular day when he goes shopping with his mother, his grandmother, and his sister Maryanne, he gets a little more than he bargained for when he is caught changing the prices on his little goodies. But the main question here that begs to be answered is this: Will Mrs. Schreiner still be in the mood for one of those cool minty shakes after what happens? Find out in this quaint little short story by Timothy Patrick Kirby, which can also be found in his collection of 20 stories, MAD WORLD. Available online at Amazon, ...

Three identical sisters. One town. A lifetime of consequences. In 1916, a set of triplets is born into sudden fame—and quickly sold to the highest bidders. Two are raised in luxury on a hilltop estate. The third grows up in an abandoned work camp. But hardship and privilege leave their marks—and not always as you’d expect. As the years pass, the distance between them grows—in wealth, power, and circumstance. But in a small town, nothing stays separate forever. When their worlds finally collide, the truth of who they are—and what they’ve become—will demand a reckoning. A ...

These are just a few exploits of Sterling, the mysterious psychic. One learns of his aptitudes and the struggles he faced throughout his life. The ability to see into the spiritual realm is a gift he both appreciated and despised because it often brought him closer to the living and the dead and forced him to experience the last moments of the innocents whose lives had been cut short.

This is not a love story. After twenty six years of terror, Claudia Connor has decided to leave her husband, Harvey. Today. On Valentine's Day. She has finally worked up the courage to walk out the door, but it's not going to be easy. This story is dedicated to anyone who has ever been in an abusive relationship and thought there was nothing they could do about. Well, there is. It is NEVER too late to start over again!

Dirk Buckingham thinks the world is his oyster, but he is about to experience a day like no other. With his good looks and charm, he is confident that he can manipulate any woman he meets. When he takes a summer job as a deckhand on the Webster family's yacht, he meets Mr. Webster's two lovely daughters. Both of whom seem to have eyes for Dirk. But what Dirk doesn't realize and couldn't possibly fathom is that he is destined to have a date with another woman who lives beneath the turbulent waters of Lake Michigan, just off the shoreline of the ghost town of Sinagpore. Who is the woman? And ...

Seamus Flannery is seven-years-old and he plans to celebrate Halloween quite differently than most children his age. To him, it is Samhain, sacred holy night of the ancient Irish Druid priests. And on this night, so long ago, a man named Daigh was humiliated by a woman he loved. Now, the time has come once again for Daigh to roam the earth and extract his timeless revenge. And this time it is within Seamus Flannery, a seemingly innocent child who doesn't really know why he's been hearing voices inside his head. Voices that keep telling him to kill those who don't have any respect for this ...

Welcome to SEAGULL ISLAND, up until now, a private island in the middle of Lake Michigan. But they've recently opened up, and inviting 5 lucky guests to spend the weekend with them. Jackie Lutz, and her boyfriend Drew are two of the lucky winners, and they, along with three others, set sail in a rickety dinghy helmed by a weathered man who is proud of his island and wants to show it off. What could go wrong? Isolated in the middle of Lake Michigan with forty people who have eschewed society and built themselves a life here, on Seagull Island, where seagulls are both revered and put to good ...