Alt Hist Issue 8
The magazine of alternate history and historical fiction
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The eighth issue of the popular magazine of historical fiction and alternate history contains six great new short stories. Alt Hist Issue 8 includes new stories in the Battalion 202 series set in the aftermath of a successful German invasion of Britain, as well as tales featuring bridge burning in the American Civil War, a secret mission against the Suez Canal in the World War One, a story that speculates what if the atom bomb hadn't been dropped on Japan, and taking us back to the Middle Ages, a story that follows the dreams and reality of a peasant girl caught up in the brutal Hundred Years War. Stories include: Dewey Defeats Truman by Mark Devane A Sword by Andrew Knighton The Retreat Proceeded Orderly, at Least by Kenan Orhan The Fullness and the Hollowness by Jonathan Doering Small Miracles by Jonathan Doering His Last Day by Richard Buxton
Kenan Orhan
Kenan Orhan's debut collection, I Am My Country and Other Stories, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and was long-listed for the Story Prize. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The Common, The Massachusetts Review, and other publications and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories. The Renovation is his first novel.
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