The Oblique Blade: and 6 More Historical Tales

By Gavin Boyter

The seventh and final budget story sampler, The Oblique Blade transports the reader back across hundreds of years of history, from medieval bowmakers to Revolutionary executioners, to Van Gogh hard at work in Arles. All of these historical excursions are made with one purpose: to surprise, educate, and delight the reader.

The book contains...

Rain, Blood and Whiskey: a World War One soldier writes one last emotional letter home.
Starlight at the Beehive: mobsters, sports writers, and musicans collide in a Jazz Age tale of revenge.
The Besting of Dandy Jack: a cocky highwayman finally meets his match in an heiress who won't be cowed.
...and four more tales.

"Gavin Boyter's fiction brings the reader into another place and time. It is a rare writer who can make a situation far away seem real and relatable and Gavin's story does just this." Lisa C. Taylor, WORDPEACE Fiction Editor

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CGYVVVDL
• ISBN13: 9798859671588
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"