Robert E. Waters
The Persistence of Dreams
Grantville, May 1636Daniel Block stretched his aching back, then tilted his canvas to capture more of the fading light of the evening. The reddish hue changed the colors on his palette, giving Fraulein Barnes’s pale arms and shoulders an orange tint that he...
The River of His Memory
“Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.” —Jean Paul Richter, German Novelist PART 1 September, 1636, Grantville What is my name? He sat on his porch, sipping tea, trying to remember. It was late summer, and he knew where he...
The Great Grantville Gander Pull
April, 1635, Western PomeraniaJoe Plotz could barely hear himself think over the hissing and honking of the geese in the pen before him. It was the loudest and most bellicose display he had ever heard, and he was pleased. Back up-time in West Virginia, his grandfather...
The Heirloom
March, 1626, Darmstadt, GermanyNina Weiss watched the soldiers assemble in the Schlossplatz from a safe place behind her father’s crates and barrels. Not soldiers really, but boys, many of whom were not much older than she. Children playing at war, with their...
The Game of War
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” —Sun TzuApril 1635, somewhere near Zernez, Lower Engadin, Switzerland . . . Klaus Gremminger stared into the lifeless eyes of...
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