The Feast of Stevens

The Feast of Stevens

Kristen Stieffel

Fantasy / Science Fiction

On a space station far from Earth, animal liberationists inadvertently jeopardize thirty-eight innocent turkeys. The station’s cook, Stevens, ensures the fowl shall not have died in vain.In this science fiction Christmas comedy, cultures clash, hearts are won, and dinner is served.Love on the Way, is a story of two people with no names, in fact is the story of every common ordinary individual, story where no connection exists between two people but still somehow or the other they feel there's something between them, not knowing what exactly it is, are they made for each other or are just another couple lost in each others dream surrounded by crowd.These is the story of two people both look at each other, smile at each other, there heart knows the other is also having same feeling but in reality they don't even know if their is saying the truth.And then the revelation of life and its effect on these two lifes.Constructed on a the plot of a real incident, a story that will touch your heart and compel you to read through the last line.
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Mighty Fortress

Mighty Fortress

Kristen Stieffel

Fantasy / Science Fiction

An Austrian pastor helps a Jewish family escape the Nazis, but their elderly grandmother must stay behind. He hides her in the church, caring for her and learning from her, until one fateful Christmas Eve.Pastor Gottlieb finds it difficult to preach with Nazis in the pews, but since the Anschluss, he has no choice. When a Jewish family seeks his help, he willingly agrees, seeing it as a way to oppose the troops that have invaded Austria.He hides the family in the church, in a service corridor behind the organ pipes. The younger family members plan their escape to New York, but soon realize their elderly grandmother is too frail for the trip.
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The Last Buffalo

The Last Buffalo

Kristen Stieffel

Fantasy / Science Fiction

The legendary White Buffalo Calf Woman said that when the last buffalo dies, the world will end. The zookeeper caring for the only remaining American Bison is about to see that prophecy fulfilled.Dr. John Hollow Horn is a zoo veterinarian entrusted with the world’s last American Bison. Hollow Horn is dying of lung cancer, and the world around him is dying, too, suffocated and starved by pollution and decay.He shares with his colleagues the Lakota legends he learned as a boy, saying “Guess now that I’m getting near the end, I’m getting closer to my beginnings.”~ ~ ~ ~This dystopian science fiction short story is based on the legend of the White Buffalo Calf Woman, who prophesied that when the last buffalo dies, the world will end.
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