The Defiant Spirit is a historical short story collection that traces ordinary lives caught in extraordinary times. Spanning continents and years, each story explores how individuals and groups endure when systems of power shift, collapse, or turn oppressive. Not everyone wins, but there are lessons to be learned and history to be remembered. Keep the spirit alive. Lee Conrad lives in upstate New York with his longtime love and their three rescue cats. His stories have appeared in Fiction on the Web, Literally Stories, Ariel Chart, Sundial Magazine, The London Reader, Books 'N Pieces, Blood and Bourbon, Written Tales and The Blue Lake Review.
