Weaving pieces of history into interesting fictionalized vignettes, the author explores the secret and hidden facets of America's present and past. This collection of eighteen stories contains an eclectic mix of what ifs, of little-known history, and of tribalism. King Nicholas has assembled floating near-present scenarios, as in the revelatory "Life of Benjamin Ficklin X" and in the imaginative dystopia, "The Welsh Opera." He has included stories of urban fantasy such as the nostalgic "Vogelsong" and in a sojourn to the past that might have been in "Powhatan Paramountcy." The founding...

Weaving pieces of history into interesting fictionalized vignettes, the author explores the secret and hidden facets of America's present and past. This collection of eighteen stories contains an eclectic mix of what ifs, of little-known history, and of tribalism. King Nicholas has assembled floating near-present scenarios, as in the revelatory "Life of Benjamin Ficklin X" and in the imaginative dystopia, "The Welsh Opera." He has included stories of urban fantasy such as the nostalgic "Vogelsong" and in a sojourn to the past that might have been in "Powhatan Paramountcy." The founding...