{"id":4461,"date":"2025-06-24T22:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T22:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/?p=4461"},"modified":"2025-06-24T22:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T22:26:21","slug":"happy-birthday-regency-reflections-enjoy-these-free-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/24\/happy-birthday-regency-reflections-enjoy-these-free-short-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Regency Reflections! Enjoy these free short stories."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regency Reflections is entering it&#8217;s fourth year! We&#8217;ve had such an incredible time blogging about history, new books, our favorite classics, and the blessings God has given us. We couldn&#8217;t be happier to have you along for the journey.<\/p><div id=\"vanes-2780063628\" class=\"vanes-content vanes-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-right: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: 2px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/fireswordandsea.htm\" aria-label=\"Fire Sword &amp; Sea\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?fit=1706%2C2560&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fire Sword &amp; Sea\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?w=1706&ssl=1 1706w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?w=1280&ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" width=\"569\" height=\"853\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re new to Regency Reflections (or just want to revisit some great reads) here are the links to some free short stories we&#8217;ve published in the last three years.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A Suitable Match, Serial Story Section 1 and a Chance to Win\" href=\"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/a-suitable-match-serial-story-section-1-and-a-chance-to-win\/\">A Suitable Match<\/a> &#8211; a serial story written by 7 Regency romance authors. The contests are no longer open, but the story is still great!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Saving Miss Caulfield, Part 1 ~ A Short Regency Romance by Kristi Ann Hunter\" href=\"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/03\/saving-miss-caulfield-part-1-a-short-regency-romance-by-kristi-ann-hunter\/\">Saving Miss Caulfield<\/a> by Kristi Ann Hunter<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Love Everlasting, Part 1 ~ A Regency Short Story by Laurie Alice Eakes\" href=\"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/07\/love-everlasting-part-1-a-regency-short-story-by-laurie-alice-eakes\/\">Love Everlasting<\/a> by Laurie Alice Eakes<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A Pressing Engagement: Part1\" href=\"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/12\/a-pressing-engagement-part1\/\">A Pressing Engagement<\/a> by Vanessa Riley<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A Proper Prodigal, Regency Short Story (part 1) ~ by Susan Karsten\" href=\"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/03\/a-proper-prodigal-a-regency-short-story-part-1-by-susan-karsten\/\">A Proper Prodigal<\/a> by Susan Karsten<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Matchmaking Pudding ~ A short story by Laurie Alice Eakes\" href=\"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/25\/matchmaking-pudding-a-short-story-by-laurie-alice-eakes\/\">Matchmaking Pudding<\/a> by Laurie Alice Eakes<\/p>\n<p>We hope you&#8217;re looking forward to another year of celebrating inspirational Regencies as much as we are!<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading!<\/p>\n<p id=\"rop\"><small>Originally posted 2015-02-02 09:33:11. <\/small><\/p><div id=\"vanes-681064596\" class=\"vanes-after-content vanes-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 3px;margin-right: 3px;margin-bottom: 3px;margin-left: 3px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?fit=1080%2C1350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Listen to the Write of Passage Weekly Podcast\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=240%2C300&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=819%2C1024&ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=768%2C960&ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" width=\"540\" height=\"675\"   \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regency Reflections is entering it&#8217;s fourth year! We&#8217;ve had such an incredible time blogging about history, new books, our favorite classics, and the blessings God has given us. We couldn&#8217;t be happier to have you along for the journey. If you&#8217;re new to Regency Reflections (or just want to revisit some great reads) here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,4],"tags":[582,519,590,74,24,39,209,208],"class_list":["post-4461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-stories","category-regency-romance","tag-a-suitable-match","tag-free-read","tag-free-stories","tag-kristi-ann-hunter","tag-laurie-alice-eakes","tag-regency","tag-susan-karsten","tag-vanessa-riley"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4462,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions\/4462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}