"Battle at Indian Cave" was published on October 24 by Sundial Magazine. This is a story set in 1918 when anti-foreign feelings were running very high in the midst of the pro-war frenzy encouraged by the Wilson White House. The gang of boys, and one girl, at the heart of this story are all from various slavic nations within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and quite alienated from the red-whte-and-blue spirit animating much of the Mohawk Valley in that fateful year. They decide to hide a disabled older boy from the draft, with tragic consequences.
Sundial Magazine recently included my earlier story "The Colonel Takes Command" in their first-ever print anthology of American historical fiction, Dim and Flaring Lamps, available at Amazon in electronic and paper formats.
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