The Alexandria Project: Off the Beaten Path, #3

By Kate Tompkins

Three university Classics students are looking for a spectacular fourth-year project to guarantee them a spot in grad school. If only they had a time machine.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Matthewsburg Manse
• Release date: Feb 20, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224264568

Kate Tompkins

Kate Tompkins finds her BA in anthropology comes in useful for story ideas, especially in the science fiction and fantasy genres. Sometimes the cat will let her off lap duties for long enough to actually write them.

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The Alexandria Project

Off the Beaten Path, Volume 3

Kate Tompkins

Published by The Matthewsburg Manse, 2024.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

THE ALEXANDRIA PROJECT

First edition. February 20, 2024.

Copyright © 2024 Kate Tompkins.

Written by Kate Tompkins.

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T he Kessler twins have it sewn up, said Brent. Since their mother started talking about endowing two faculty positions, they’ve been getting straight A’s. The grad students are doing their course work for them.

Brent, Georgia and I sat in our room in residence, drinking beer and moping. We needed an outstanding fourth year project to get into grad school. Technically, we weren’t supposed to start work until the following September, but even the worst procrastinators in our class were already thinking about it.

Georgia stared into her beer. That still leaves eight openings. If only we could find something really spectacular.

If only they hadn’t burned the Library of Alexandria, I said. This is a standard classicist beef. The city of Alexandria had had a huge collection of scrolls on every conceivable subject, lost in 48 BC when Julius Caesar set fire to Ptolemy XIV’s fleet. If it had survived, we’d know a lot more than we do about the ancient Mediterranean. And if I’d been born rich, I wouldn’t be worrying about my fourth-year project, I’d be cruising the Greek islands on my yacht.

The Library of Alexandria, Brent repeated. "My cousin