Ashcombe
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Ashcombe by housemasterwilkes for RockSaltAndRoll, daleywritingways, here_there_withering
Fandoms: Original Work, Ashcombe
01 Jul 2026
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A 1990s-set original queer boarding school novel about first love, repression, class, and the slow education of wanting.
When American transfer student Isaiah Walker arrives at Ashcombe Hall, he is thrown into a world of old stone, rigid hierarchies, and rules nobody says aloud. Robbie McAllister, a scholarship boy with more status than he ought to have, knows exactly how the place works. Izzy does not.
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- Part 1 of Ashcombe
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Robbie McAllister has built a life. Isaiah Walker has built several, none of them quite sturdy enough to survive coming home.
When Isaiah walks back into Robbie’s world, neither of them is the boy he left behind. They are older now; sharper in some places, softer in others. There are jobs, histories, old wounds with adult names, and the terrible inconvenience of discovering that unfinished love does not always stay buried just because you asked it to.
A second-chance love story about what happens when the person you never finished loving walks back into your life, and both of you have to answer for the years between.
This is what happened to me after I vanished, and this is what your vanishing did to me.
Westray works as a solo novel as well, but reading Ashcombe gives you the original story behind this one.
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- Part 2 of Ashcombe
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Welcome to East Works, the forbidden one-shot archives of the Ashcombe novels.
East Works is where the cut scenes, alternate timelines, AUs, missing moments, bad ideas, good ideas, self-indulgent experiments, and emotionally suspect little side quests live. Some of these belong beside Ashcombe, some belong beside Westray, some belong in a locked drawer with a label that says absolutely not, which naturally means they are here.
Expect familiar characters, new faces, canon-adjacent nonsense, canon-divergent trouble, smut, tooth-rotting fluff, jokes that got out of hand, feelings that were meant to stay small and did not, and occasional evidence that the author cannot be trusted with their own supporting cast or mutuals saying "hey, House, I have this fun idea..."
Not required reading. Probably not even advisable reading. But if you wanted the forbidden archives, love, step in.
This will not be updated regularly: this will be updated sporadically and with bad intentions.
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- Part 3 of Ashcombe