by storyofyears | Jun 29, 2025 | Mystery
Chapter 1: The Shadow Over JerusalemJerusalem, 598 BC The city groaned beneath the weight of dread. The wind carried the distant clatter of armor from Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian host, camped just beyond sight, their banners flickering like tongues of fire against the...
by storyofyears | May 25, 2025 | Mystery
Chapter 1: The Death at SconeThe scent of damp stone clung to the walls of Scone Abbey, mingling with the holy smoke of beeswax candles and the metallic tang of cold iron. It was March of 1292, and the abbey’s cloisters echoed with the hurried footsteps of...
by storyofyears | May 23, 2025 | Mystery
by storyofyears | May 3, 2025 | Mystery
Chapter 1: The Scent of LaurelThe morning sun crested the slopes of Mount Parnassus, gilding the columns of Apollo’s sanctuary in Delphi with a golden haze. In the cool shade of the stoa, Nikandros bent over his wax tablets, copying a recent decree from the...
by storyofyears | May 1, 2025 | Mystery
Chapter 1: The Bloodied FordThe cold autumn mist curled above the River Aller, swallowing the world in pale silence. Hadelin of Tours hunched his shoulders against the chill, clutching a wax tablet to his chest. He was a scribe in the retinue of Count Berengar, whose...
by storyofyears | Apr 28, 2025 | Mystery
Chapter 1: The Ink-Stained ApprenticeParis, June 1794. The air in the Rue Saint-Honoré was thick with the scent of rain and fear. Citizens hurried past the Place de la Révolution, heads down, careful not to draw attention. On the second floor of a cramped print shop,...
