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Special Issue 2 #11: The View from Nakatomi Tower

Previous The View from Nakatomi Tower Walt Boyes and Bjorn Hasseler December 24, 1635 The last strains of the soundtrack played, and the credits rolled. The very old, squeaky VHS tape cassette managed to make it through another showing. Out in the auditorium, first the up-timers in the audience started to cheer, then the slightly […]

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Special Issue 2 #10: Sad Spectacles of Deceitful Iniquity at Christmastime

Previous / Next Sad Spectacles of Deceitful Iniquity at Christmastime Eric Flint and Lucille Robbins Nuremberg Nadler’s Apothecary November 21, 1637 Hearing the bell on the door of his apothecary ring, Ulrich Nadler came out of the workroom to see who had entered. He was still working the pestle in the mortar because the concoction […]

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Special Issue 2 #9: One Night Only

Previous / Next One Night Only Michael Lockwood Magdeburg Opera House December 24, 1635 Gunther Wagner nervously popped his knuckles as he paced behind a dropped curtain. On the other side of the curtain, a mindless buzz droned from the audience as they made their way to their seats. He pulled the curtain open just […]

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Special Issue 2 #8: A Christmas Stollen

Previous / Next A Christmas Stollen Edith Wild Grantville High School 1636 The bell rang as Amalia skidded into the locker room. She rushed over to her assigned locker. She quickly undid her padlock, opened her locker, pulled out her PE uniform and sneakers. Amalia placed them on the bench that ran between the rows […]

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Special Issue 2 #7: Natala

Previous / Next Natala Iver P. Cooper Kodachi Machi (Santa Cruz), Monterey Bay November, 1634 “Hold up the child,” said Yamaguchi Takuma. He dipped the pitcher into the water of the San Lorenzo River, then lifted it up again, a few droplets scattering as he did so. “I baptize thee Luis Goto, in the name […]

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Special Issue 2 #6: Santa’s Lapp

Previous / Next Santa’s Lapp George Haberberger North of the Ume River, Sweden December, 1633 The sun came up in a different place than yesterday, Erik was sure. He was sitting on a pile of reindeer pelts, sitting so that a rock and a pine were aligned on his left, and two pine trees were […]

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Special Issue 2 #5: No Proper Carol

Previous / Next No Proper Carol Sarah Hays November 29, 1638 “Mama,” Marty Haag Ballantine said. “Have you ever heard the song about the herd of haunted cattle?” Alyse Ballantine, surprised at the breakfast table, asked, ” ‘Ghost Riders in the Sky’?” He nodded. “Sure,” Alyse said. “I like Roy Clark’s instrumental best, but my […]

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Special Issue 2 #4: Christmas at the Schickelmans

Previous / Next Christmas at the Schickelmans John Deakins 1637 The misplaced Pequot/Englishman Eliezer St. Clair had homesteaded as a blacksmith on a creek short of West Point. The Dutch patroon Kiliaen van Rensselaer had given his family more than a dozen acres on the river’s north side. Gerhard Schickelman and his wife Anke Janssen […]

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Special Issue 2 #3: At Christmas Time

Previous / Next At Christmas Time Mark Huston Based on the Anton Chekov story “What shall I write, old woman?” “A letter to my daughter. And her husband,” replied Hilde. They were sitting in the smoky common room of the village inn. “For Christmas,” she added with a stiff nod to the young man who […]

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Special Issue 2 #2: The Gift

Previous / Next The Gift Chuck Thompson Grantville December, 1636 Most mornings, before rising, Inez Wiley liked to warm her brain by going over her plans for the next few days. She had gotten halfway through tomorrow when a sound interrupted her thoughts. Skritch skritch. Skritch skritch. “Better be that tabby alley cat scratching at […]

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Special Issue 2 #1: Grantville’s Secret Santa

Previous / Next Grantville’s Secret Santa Jackie Britton Lopatin “Oh, I remember my first Grantville Christmas.” The elderly woman spoke to her large audience from the podium. “It was amazing.” “I had recently started working part-time at the newspaper office so I was able to earn some rent money while learning more about journalism. The […]

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1632 & Beyond Special Issue 002

Welcome to our Special Issue #2, Christmas 2024. We hope you enjoy it! Next Introduction and Table of ContentsBjorn Hasseler Introduction Magdeburg Messenger (1632 Fiction) 1. Grantville’s Secret Santa Jackie Britton Lopatin 2. The Gift Chuck Thompson 3. At Christmas Time Mark Huston 4. Christmas at the Schickelmans John Deakins 5. No Proper Carol Sarah […]

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Special Issue 1 #8: Nobody’s Going Home

Previous / Next Nobody’s Going Home Virginia DeMarce Amberg, Upper Palatinate December, 1636 “I didn’t expect that I wouldn’t be able to go home for Christmas this year.” Madeline Clinter pouted, half-serious and half-not-so-serious. “The way things have turned out, we’d have been better off if they’d left the normal school in Grantville.” “Nope.” Lizzy […]

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Special Issue 1 #6: The Glad Game

Previous / Next The Glad Game Bethanne Kim Croat Raid, Grantville August, 1632 Adam Holst fought to keep his horse under control. At twenty-four, Adam fancied himself hardened to battles and their aftermath, but his horse was a different story. Storm just didn’t have the instincts, or personality, of a war horse in spite of […]

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Special Issue 1 #5: A Christmas for Kjell

Previous / Next A Christmas for Kjell George Grant Allgutsrum Kyrka, Allgutsrum, Öland, Sweden December 13, 1632, Julian Calendar (December 24, Gregorian Calendar) The Winter Solstice Hindric Carlsson could see that his sister, Gertrud, was nervous about the lit candles on her head. She was playing Saint Lucia in the procession, so she was wearing […]

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Special Issue 1 #4: A Weimaraner Christmas

Previous / Next A Weimaraner Chrismas Walt Boyes Weimar End of November, 1638 Adolph Graube, jagdmeister to Duke Albrecht of Weimar, looked up as someone came into his tiny office in the stables. It was his former boss, Gerhard Schmidt. There was barely enough space in the office for a table and a chair, so […]

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Special Issue 1 #3: The Gift of the Puppet

Previous / Next The Gift of the Puppet Tracy S. Morris Denis paused mid-step as he walked through the door of the apartment that he shared with Betsy above her mother’s garage. It looked like the North Pole exploded across their tiny home. Bits of tinsel, wrapping paper, and ornaments lay scattered across the floor […]

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Special Issue 1 #2: It’s Tradition

Previous / Next It’s Tradition Anne Keener Grantville December, 1633 Joseph Kantor sank into his chair as his homeroom teacher started talking about holiday traditions, presentations, and a class party. She means a Christmas party, he thought. I wonder if I can leave school early that day. Otherwise, I’ll have to decide if it is […]

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