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  1. Rec 20

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    She could try to assemble these bits of knowledge into a father, but she would fail. It is like building a man out of spare parts: a lock of hair here, a patch of skin there. You can make a serviceable figure. It can walk around and sit and speak with you. But when you try to put its heart in, all you can find is a brick wall.

    She went to England to see her father while he lived, in case the rebels killed him. She left thinking, I have seen all I will see of him, even if he lives another fifty years.

    [28 July 1540. Five people who got on with their day, and one who didn’t.]

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    26 Oct 2025

  2. Rec 20

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    Over the years, Jane's resolve to do her duty to her family has occasionally faltered.

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    26 Oct 2025

  3. Rec 15

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    "It may also please you to advertise my lord his grace that since his repair to Richmond I have been at Lesnes, where I saw one of the most piteous and grievous sights that ever I saw, which to me before the sight of the same was incredible, concerning the breach out of the Thames into the marshes at Lesnes, which are all overflowed and drowned." 

    --Thomas Cromwell to Stephen Gardiner, January 18, 1529

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    23 Oct 2025

  4. Rec 18

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    "So you really think the king intends to marry me?"

    He thought she knew. It is the only thing they're talking about, back in London; that and the death of Anne Boleyn, the fall of one queen and the rise of another, as seems to be the cyclic tragedy of Henry's reign. But now that she says it he believes her surprise; he just does not believe that it is a sign of innocence. He has said it many times, to people who accused him of persecuting the guileless: show me an innocent man, and I will reconsider my opinions, I will change my ways. Until then, let me do my job.

    "Do you not think so?"

    "Is it a lawyer's trick, to answer questions with questions?"

    He allows himself a smile. "One you seem to be mastering exceptionally well."

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    23 Oct 2025

  5. Rec 6

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    As the ax falls, so too does the world around his feet. The stage where he kneels is aged and crooked under his hands. But the blow, after all, never comes.

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    10 Oct 2025

  6. Rec 9

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    Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind.

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    10 Oct 2025

  7. Rec 10

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    Thomas Cromwell opened his eyes to grand, engraved, mahogany ceilings in July 1538.
    He was given a second chance.

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    09 Oct 2025

  8. Rec 29

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    November 1532. Thomas Cromwell and Mary Boleyn are married. Thomas Howard, The Duke of Norfolk is dead. Everything else is within the realm of historically possible/plausible.

    The story picks up where A Month in Calais leaves off.

    My apologies to history and Hilary Mantel.

    Updated every other Wednesday.

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    08 Oct 2025

  9. Rec 16

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    Cromwell wins the war but loses almost everything else, including his mind.

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    08 Oct 2025

  10. Rec 41

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    AU version of the events in Calais in October and November of 1532. Apologies to Hilary Mantel and to history. For the purpose of these stories, Cromwell's body has been Rylanced.

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    08 Oct 2025

  11. Rec 6

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    “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
    —Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

    Why leave the house? A pull. By who?
    Why go to the ruins? A drag. To where?
    Why follow that bird? Curiosity. For what?
    Why walk to the statue? A draw. Towards something unknown… And maybe something beautiful too.

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    Set within the world of Wolf Hall (by Hilary Mantel) book/TV Series.

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    08 Oct 2025

  12. Rec 6

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    “I could always jump, but I never do. I sometimes think it was him, the one that tried to run away with the gardener. That maybe I’m dreaming of him. That I’m him—but I’m not.” His eyes glaze over, the memory haunting him. “He jumped once, you know. It’s not public knowledge. Straight out of his window—to the ground. His aura saved him, but even with mine on . . . I don’t think I could do it.”

    “That makes you different, though,” Gaal points out. She doesn’t have an answer for all the rest. It’s just a dream, after all. “If he could jump, but you can’t. So, what makes you like him?”

    His answer is one word. He exhales it out in a single breath from between his lips like a prayer said before bedtime—before the darkness takes you, and you never know if you’re going to wake up again. His eyes never leave hers. Not once.

    “You.”

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    02 Oct 2025

  13. Rec 3

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    The night of Cleon XXIII's death, Cleon XXV goes home with Gaal Dornick.

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    02 Oct 2025

  14. Rec 6

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    “Why don’t you come over here?” she finally suggests, her voice deeper, lower than usual; it sounds like she’s flirting with him, but sometimes Dawn can’t tell with her. He doesn’t want to press into the line of whatever this is, shattering the illusion he’s built in his head. He’s imagined her face a million times before going to bed; sometimes, laughing, other times, gasping, with her mouth wide open and the shadows abound all around them as she shudders out a moan. He thinks about her all the time. He thinks about her too much.

    Dawn looks down at his glass of liquor. Swirls it between the crystalline walls—and downs the entire thing in one gulp. It burns going down.

    Strength. Wisdom. Fortitude.

    This is neither of those things.

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    18 Sep 2025

  15. Rec 4

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    Luck. They all wished it, but Gaal didn’t come here on luck. She came here on math—and the math was never wrong.

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    12 Sep 2025

  16. Rec 2

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    History would come to remember him as The Alchemist, Tenth of the Cleonic line, but the child Twelve knew him only as Brother Dusk.

    Snapshots of Cleon XII's childhood, and the Cleon he knew as Brother Dusk.

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    02 Sep 2025

  17. Rec 10

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    It doesn't benefit Gaal to sleep with him, not really. She still does.

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    25 Aug 2025

  18. Rec 14

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    Following an incident of misconduct, Chancellor Palpatine summons his prized scholarship student, Anakin Skywalker, to his office to discuss how this behaviour might be rectified.

    (Set in a real world university AU)

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    03 Jun 2025

  19. Rec 6

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    An entanglement on Coruscant.

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    03 Jun 2025

  20. Rec 3

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    Dooku and Palpatine play chess together quite often.

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    02 Jun 2025

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