Previous / NextBootstrappingWritten by Kerryn OffordWinter 1631-32, JenaCatherine Mutschler made her way carefully through the winter mud. She was tired and listless after being kept up most of the night by Maria, her three-year-old daughter. She’d finally managed to settle Maria only by feeding her the last of the bread mixed with thin soup, but […]

Previous / NextLittle AngelBy Kerryn OffordGrantville,January 1634Maria Helena Kolb slowly searched the line of trees. Somewhere, hidden in the shadows, she was sure Benji Matheny was hiding in ambush. Time to send in the cannon fodder. “Daisy, Regina, when I give you the word, I want you to run around that tree over there and, if you […]

Previous White Goldby Kerryn OffordAs the gentle winds blow, you look out from the veranda of your plantation house over the acres of sugar cane. What you see isn’t fields of cane. What you see is fields of gold. The white gold called sugar, slowly growing to maturity. In Pernambuco in the early seventeenth century, […]

Previous / Next A Matter Of Tasteby Kerryn OffordThe dining hall of a military leased house, Magdeburg, 1634Cory Joe Lang looked down at his empty place mat. He had a bad feeling about the group’s latest action. There had been mutterings about the food before, but this time they’d sent it back untouched. Even he […]

Previous / Next The Doctor Gribbleflotz Chronicles, Part 3Doctor Phil’s DistractionBy Kerryn OffordApril 1635, The rectory, St. Martin’s in the Fields. South of RudolstadtYesterday I helped Stepmama turn Papa’s old Geneva gown. We unpicked the seams, darned threads to reinforce the worst worn spots and re-dyed the fabric before hand sewing it back together, with […]

Previous / NextDr. Phil Zinkens A BundleBy Kerryn OffordJena, 1633The new chemical “battery” was most interesting. Just by adding two electrodes of different metal into a glass container of weak oil of vitriol one could generate enough of the new electricity to light the small light bulb.Dr. Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz returned his attention to the […]

Previous / Next Dr. Phil’s Aeolian TransformersKerryn Offord and Rick BoatrightJenaIt had been a hard day of almost wasted discussions with the scholars at the university. John Grover and Ken Butcher, accompanied by Derrick Mason, a young radio operator on loan from the army, had been trying to identify the materials and skills available down-time […]

Previous / NextDr. Phil’s Amazing Lightning CrystalKerryn OffordJena, Freedom ArchesTasha Kubiak tried to tune out the pompous ass who was still pontificating. Somehow both Tracy Kubiak and Danielle Kowach, the two other members of the Kubiak Country partnership who could speak competent German, had managed to be needed elsewhere when this trip had come up. […]

Previous / NextCONTINUING SERIALSThe Doctor Gribbleflotz Chronicles, Part 1: Calling Dr. PhilKerryn OffordSunday. After Church Lunch, Drahuta PropertyDeep in the middle of “Kubiak Country” the extended Kubiak clan had gathered at the home of Belle and Ivan Drahuta for Sunday lunch. Grown men and women were messing about playing touch football in the yard with […]