by Tim Roesch | Aug 13, 2017
Drahuta Residence, Bamberg, USE Julie always entered her residence with a certain suspicion. From a husband who enjoyed wearing his cavalry armor to the dinner table to a house that could, sometimes at the same time, hold the world's greatest mathematician and...
by Tim Roesch | Feb 13, 2017
On Top of a Little Boy’s Bed, Bamberg, July, 1636 Joseph Drahuta knew how old he was—nine, but he also knew how old he felt—older. First, there had been the entire Ring of Fire thing, when his entire life changed down to his underwear. Who would have thought...
by Tim Roesch | Dec 13, 2016
Wittenförden November, 1635 Kunigunde stood in the quiet dim coolness of her mother’s house near the very center of Wittenförden, a small, secluded village where she knew she was not welcome. The house, before, during, and after her mother, had been slowly...
by Tim Roesch | Dec 10, 2015
Pascal Residence in Bamberg Late May, 1636 "Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts, which we are about to receive, from thy bounty through Christ our Lord. Amen." Etienne Pascal smiled down at his plate as his daughter Jacqueline finished saying grace. Etienne...
by Tim Roesch | Feb 7, 2013
Bamberg, April 1636 “You look like a bloated corpse,” Logan Sebastian muttered at the bag of hot air floating before her, “but an honest corpse.” Logan stood on the closely-cropped grass of the Bamberg airfield, shouldering an overstuffed...
by Tim Roesch | Apr 9, 2012
Leahy Medical Center, Nurse Training Program, April 1635 My dearest aunt, My only excuse for not writing recently is that I have been unable to properly put upon paper what I have seen and done quite recently. In the past I have had more to write about than time to...
by Tim Roesch | Dec 2, 2011
There, But For the Grace of God, Go Eyes Leahy Medical Center, Nurse training program, April 1635 My dearest aunt, I am well. I hope this letter finds you well. We are all fed very well here. There are many things I am learning that I am not sure how to tell you. I am...
by Tim Roesch | Sep 24, 2011
So That the Blind May See Leahy Medical Center, Nurse Training Program, March 1635 My dearest aunt, I am well. It is warm and we are all fed very well here at this school of nursing. We have received our third clothing allowance. I cannot imagine what comes next after...
by Tim Roesch | May 26, 2010
Grantville Power Plant, November 11th, 1634Bill Porter staggered out of the staff lunchroom in the Grantville Power Plant as if he’d been cast out against his will or was in fear for his life . . . or possibly both. He caught sight of Julie Drahuta...