Short Fantasy Story: A Fall of Silver – Chapter 1 (FREE!)
Swells of dark waves lapped against the wax-sealed sides of the Swallow as it made berth in the Felltaen harbor. A steady breeze rippled down the white sails, granting it one final nudge as...
Game of Thrones in Split: When Fantasy Walked Through Roman Stone
There are places in the world where fiction borrows from history. And then there is Split, where history is so alive, so textured, that fantasy simply steps into it.
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Olive Trees and Time Travel: A Story Beneath the Branches of Brač
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Trees That Remember
There are trees that shade you — and trees that know your name.
On the island of Brač, the olive trees are more than just part of the landscape. They are elders. Witnesses....
Forski Pjat: A Taste of Memory, a Spoonful of the Sea
There are meals that nourish the body — and there are those that feed memory. In Dalmatia, we call it forski pjat: not just food from the island of Hvar, but a phrase that...
The Last Diocletian’s Dream (1/3)
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They called him a god.Diocletian, the builder of empires, the breaker of men, the ruler who carved his will into stone and flame. But when the purple robes were folded and the armies no...
Stone Whispers: A Sacred Craft Older Than Empire
Where Stones Still Speak
There is a silence in stonework — the kind of silence that holds memory, not emptiness.
In Croatia, that silence is everywhere.It lingers in the cracked walls of ancient fortresses, the polished...