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  1. 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

  2. Rec 9

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    Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind.

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    10 Oct 2025

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Rec 5

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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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Rec 6

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    An entanglement on Coruscant.

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    03 Jun 2025

  16. Rec 3

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    Dooku and Palpatine play chess together quite often.

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    02 Jun 2025

  17. Rec 9

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    This is the birth of a woman, coaxed from statue.
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    Padmé had made her acceptance speech while sweating under the weight of her outfit, layers of green-gold shot silk shining like the leaves on the trees of Theed. Eternal summer brought with it peace and plenty, cheer and merriment. The whole planet was thrumming with life, hibiscus flowers unfurled in the Royal Gardens, and before her a great crowd had gathered to listen to her speak, flower petals floating through the still air. Amidala had won by a strong margin, was young and popular and optimistic, and it was Padmé’s solemn duty to transform Amidala from idea into woman.
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    This is the death rattle of trust.
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    “I said, I’ll do what is right.” The tired father of the Republic was erased fully now, unbending steel in his place. The meeting, she knew, was over. Palpatine continued, “That should be enough for your,” he locked eyes with Padmé, said the next word with a sneer, “committee.”
    Look how far you’ve fallen from the queen who understood the importance of action, his words whispered, Anakin unmoving at his side. A flash of fury burnt through her.
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    Or: Padme Amidala, through her life.

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    02 Jun 2025

  18. Rec 3

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    Anakin doesn't know what he'd do if he lost Palpatine.

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    02 Jun 2025

  19. Rec 13

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    Approaching spinsterhood as the last of her friends to marry, Miss Sophia Turley is faced with a single choice from her father: marry the man whose proposals she has refused six times, or else.

    Mr. Richard Hyatt, famed adventure writer, world traveler, gentleman in love, and threatening to grow wider than he is tall—is missing but one thing: the only woman he would ever consider making his wife.

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    13 May 2025

  20. Rec 17

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    With a number of problems to deal with already, a new (and intriguing) addition to his parish is the last thing the Comte de Reynaud needs - and the foreign chocolaterie owner, who is rumoured to be atheistic, unmarried and strikingly beautiful, will be more trouble than he can possibly imagine.
    Long fic, short chapters, a little bit of hurt and a lot of comfort.
    2024 update: I originally wrote this fic over a very short period of time. Having now gone over and (hopefully) improved the overall work and added a lot of material, especially to the early chapters, as well as completing the epilogue, I'm happy to consider it finally finished.

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    06 May 2025

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