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  1. Public Bookmark 6

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    There had been such a long pause after he’d asked her if she was relieved to be marrying Gregory. It had panicked him, that pause, scattered his thoughts like a flock of startled gulls. Bess dipped her chin, denying him her eyes, and he’d filled her silence with praise of his son, fumbling through Gregory’s merits as wretchedly as he’d proffered his own to Wolsey’s daughter. Thomas Cromwell marries Bess Seymour. (Set directly after the misunderstanding in the garden.)

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    06 Dec 2025

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    When an attempt to evade Mr Collins’s proposal puts Elizabeth in an uncomfortable predicament, Mr Darcy’s appearance on the scene obliges her to re-evaluate his character.

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    12 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 8

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    A sensation. When he tries to describe it later, he won't have the words. Something like a shudder, a shimmer, in the air. A missed step, on a staircase…

    His final visit to the prisoner, before trial and execution (no matter that Sir Thomas is not yet condemned, the court will come to no other conclusion). Thomas Cromwell turns to leave, steps through the gate of the cell and the world changes around him.

    Now More is the only familiar thing in a London that is nothing like the one he knows. He, Cromwell, is resolved to find some way back, but the longer they are stuck in this strange future, the weaker his resolve becomes. More’s not bad company, it turns out. And iced coffee is pretty good.

    (Or; Cromwell and More time travel to modern London. And get stuck. And fall in love.)

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    15 Aug 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 17

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    A woman wakes up in a boat on the Thames, her only memory the words "Shakespeare's Birthday" and a name and address: "Thomas Cromwell, Austin Friars." With everything about her, from her face to her clothing to her language being strange in the London of April 1533, she soon poses a mystery to the increasingly powerful member of Henry VIII's privy council and his household. Especially intrigued is Master Cromwell's nephew, Richard. Thomas Cromwell is renowned for his memory, but can he help her recover hers?

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    21 Oct 2024

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    After the executioner's sword descends upon her neck, Anne Boleyn does not awaken in Heaven, much less in Purgatory. She awakens in Hever Castle, eight years before her last morning on earth.

    She has no desire to tread the same path again. This time, she is seemingly content to allow Henry to have her, then marry her off. However, when things get out of control, Henry decides on a petty revenge against his recalcitrant lady, and arranges for her to marry an obscure lawyer in Cardinal Wolsey's employ... also known as Thomas Cromwell, the man who, in another life, had helped to kill her.

    (Note: although this story has a romantic subplot, it is not primarily a romance).
    (Note #2: this is going to be a LONG fic)

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    27 Oct 2023