Snowflower, yours sounds very interesting. I admire you for attempting a historical fiction; those sound really hard to do!
I started a few stories recently... Haven't got around to finishing them yet, though (I'd rather be working on concertos, wouldn't you?
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Anyway one of them is called Lily of the Field and you can find it here on the forum. It's a fantasy about a girl who has been hidden for most of her life because of her strange appearance... And then she meets a little boy, and well, just read it. Yes, I am going to finish it!!! It's just going really slowly right now.
The second one I started a while ago, and I've considered picking it up again, and it's about three children who live on the earth, in modern times, except their father is a part of a secret interplanetary organization which is largely unknown to the people on Earth (because naturally, we claim we haven't "discovered" life on other planets). Because of circumstances which I have yet to concoct, they are forced to move to another planet with their mother, who is part of the royal family there. It's still in the very dim outline stage, so I don't know.
The third one, which is something along the same lines of the second, is about a couple of orphans who discover a long-lost connection between our planet and another.
Y'all tell me if you would be interested in reading any of those last two...although, considering how far I've gotten with the first, maybe I ought to stick with that for now.