Andrew Kass

Andrew Kass has written short work appearing in Glimmer Train (including a Fiction Open Honorable Mention), Z Miscellaneous and The New York Times, among other publications, and earned Honorable Mentions in the 90th and 94th Writer's Digest Short Story Competition, the 2025 CRAFT First Chapters Cont...

A Woman of Agency

By: Andrew Kass

1863: The American Civil War rages on. En route to Liverpool, the center of Confederate operations in Europe, a French agent bearing an offer from the Emperor is killed. A scramble begins to retrieve the papers he was carrying, papers which could expose a plot to build warships in France in exchange for Southern approval of its Mexican empire. Viola Ross, daughter of a Boston shipping merchant, se...