Historical Novels & Short Stories

from The Deepening world of fiction

The Mild, Mild West

Celia Hayes | April 22, 2009

I succumbed to the blandishments of the overloaded bookshelves at Half-Price Books a couple of months ago, whilst getting a good price on some redundant DVDs. I just knew I shouldn’t have wandered into the section housing assortments of “Texiana” but I did and I was tempted. Since I can resist anything but temptation, [...]

Father Christmas and the Provost

Celia Hayes | December 7, 2008

It was Vati’s idea to have a splendid Christmas Eve and he broached it to his family in November. Christian Friedrich Steinmetz to everyone else but always Vati to his family; once the clockmaker of Ulm in Bavaria, Vati had come to Texas with the Verein nearly twenty years before with his sons and his [...]