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The Medieval Dungeon

On July 7, 1584, Franz Schmidt, the official executioner in Nürnberg, beheaded Annela Moser. The married woman had been known to have realtions with 21 different men. Schmidt, known as “Meister Franz”, wrote this and other executions in his journal.

A popular destination for a pleasant day trip is the medieval dungeon in Nürnberg. The cells, for housing those held during pre-trial custody, and the torture chamber stand practically unchanged over the years.

The conditions in the dunge...

The Master and the Maid by @LauraLibricz #FridayReads #BookReview #ASMSG

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Title: The Master and the Maid

Author: Laura Libricz

Genre: Historical Fiction, Historical Romance

Book Blurb:

She’s lost her work, her home and her freedom. Now, harboring a mysterious newborn, she could lose her life.

In 17th Century Germany on the brink of the Thirty Years War, 24-year-old Katarina is traded to the patrician Sebald Tucher by her fiancé Willi Prutt in order to pay his debts. En route to her forced relocation to the Tucher...

Human #FlashFiction -2 minute read

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The Chaos Kitchen #ambaking

The Most Awesome Raisin Bread Bread baking is easy. All you need is flour, yeast, salt and water. And a baking apparatus. Bread dough can be wound around a stick and held over a fire. Bread dough can be placed in a clay form with a lid and buried in a fire pit. Or bread dough can be laid out nicely on a parchment-covered baking tray and placed in a preheated electric oven for an hour. Compared to other periods in history, the flour we buy today is of a high quality. For that matter, t...

Two Sides to Every Story #mondayblogs

I’m guest-posting today at The Maiden’s Court Blog Two Sides to Every Story: The Thirty Years War: Result of Religious Strife or Excessive Greed

Heather: Today I have the opportunity to present the newest Two Sides to Every Story entry in the series and it is with a guest post by author Laura Libricz. This topic, The Thirty Years War, is interesting to me as I just covered this subject matter in my recent semester of class. Check it out! Read more…

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Calvin #FlashFiction -2 minute read

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Cover Reveal! #historicalfiction

The Soldier’s Return Book 2 in the Heaven’s Pond Trilogy

Germany, 1626

A senseless war rips through parts of Germany. Ongoing animosity between the Catholics and the Protestants has turned into an excuse to destroy much of the landscape in the territories situated between France, Italy and Denmark. But religion only plays a minor role in this very lucrative business of war. What better way to wage war than with underpaid, starving, sick, desperate mercenary soldiers?

Direct in the path of the...

#Fantasy #FlashFiction-2 Minute Read

Deer Mouse

Protective Plague

From the overlord’s house came a quiet but vicious argument. The other houses circling the town square stood quiet: my sister’s red wooden house built up on stilts after that last flood; the iron workers’ blue housing complex and their adjoining workshop also built on stilts; the dark-brown community building, windows tightly shuttered. The fountain in the square bubbled behind me. A mouse scurried around its stone base. The door of the overlord’s ho...

Flash Fiction #mondayblogs

The River by Laura Libricz

Calvin heard Old Man Hayes cough and cuss. A screen door slammed followed by the shot from a .22. Calvin knew he was in for it this time. He ran blind towards the sound of rushing water, the smell of rotting fish directing his steps. The recent rains had swelled the river up over its banks. Calvin stopped, wiped the bangs from his sweating brow and tried to find the trail that would lead him to the bridge. “Stop, ya little bastard! I’m right on yer tail,” Old...

Game of Aspects #flashfiction

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