Historical Fiction

Challenge #04582-L198: The Nature of Miracles

Priest Robert has found his salvation in the Church and now blesses old pagan shrines into the light of the true faith. Until one day, an innocent is chased by a beast into an abandoned temple, and all of his prayers and symbols fail. All except the icon of a heathen god he ought to think a wicked demon and a little rhyme his mother uttered while tucking him to bed. -- Anon Guest

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want... Robert crossed himself as he entered the heathen temple. Graven images everywhere. Well. The wrong kind of graven images. Holy Mother Church was fine with reminders of what the Lord and Saviour, Holy Mary, Mother of God, or the assembled Saints and Angels looked like.

Spreading the holy word and saving the souls of these heathens was a tough job, but someone had to do it. Saving them from Hell was Robert's purpose. His mission from the Allmighty.

In order to stay alive to complete his mission, he had to visit every temple and at least explain the benefits of Catholicism, and convince the local heathen leader to allow a reminder of the Lord and Savior or Mother Mary or both.

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Challenge #02072-E248: In the Stars

It's amazing how flaming balls of gas, billions of lightyears from Earth, can have such an impact on human existence. -- Anon Guest

It was mathematics. Geometry. Therefore it had to be as true as the four humors. Cassius watched as the Greek made notes and drew lines between symbols. It was, ultimately, a star-shaped drawing inside a circle, and some other intersecting lines.

"What are the omens?"

"The empire's displeasure continues. You will not rise yet," said Sophus the Prognosticator. "The

Challenge #01827-E001: Speech of the Gods

Calliope, Muse of Music crosses the path of the musical instrument named in her honour, the Steam Calliope. -- Knitnan

In the lack of belief, gods and demigods go to wherever their name is still spoken, written, or known. She was once such a demigod. The muse of music. She had had believers. She had had worship. Now... all she had left was her name. Calliope. And it was here that her name was given to a machine.

They counted the year

Challenge #01771-D310: Necessary Feature Creep

The single most useful command on a computer: ctrl/cmnd+Z -- TheDragonsFlame

Everything is the result of laziness. People invented crank calculators because they didn't want to go through the mathematics themselves. People invented computers because the living ones took a little too long to bust the Enigma code. And programming code was invented because people were sick and tired of having to translate everything into ones and zeroes.

Code editors were invented to keep things straight and highlight mistakes.

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Challenge #04582-L198: The Nature of Miracles

Challenge #02072-E248: In the Stars

Challenge #01827-E001: Speech of the Gods

Challenge #01771-D310: Necessary Feature Creep