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"You are the greatest love of my life. From here on, everything I do will be in your name, for us, for the life we build together."
For decades, George and Bertha shared sweet notes waxing poetic about their dedication to one another. Until one year, the notes stopped.
Interconnected stories based on the letters George and Bertha sent to one another, from the year they met to the year they were apart.
Written for the Gilded Age Creator's Cotillion 2026.
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22 Jul 2026
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Sad and confused that her engagement to Larry still hasn’t mended, Marian decides to leave for England at Gladys’ invitation. Back in New York, after George’s cold departure leaves Bertha uncertain whether their marriage will survive, she struggles to face life alone—rejected by both her husband and her son. Meanwhile, at the Van Rhijns’, Oscar drops a bombshell that leaves his family reeling.
(Set after the Season 3 finale—a taste of how I’d like Season 4 to unfold)
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22 Jul 2026
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George Russell is one of America's most renowned pastry chefs. If only he could convince Clay to let him stop taking these wedding cake special orders. He hates wedding cakes. And he especially hates dealing with brides. He'll just handle this last one, for this Bertha Connolly, and then he'll get back to what he actually enjoys.
In which George is grumpy but besotted, Bertha is engaged to someone who definitely isn't him, and the rest of our cast of characters have to deal with all the headaches that ensue from those two central facts.
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22 Jul 2026
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A week of rake!George. If you know me, you know how this is going to go for him.
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22 Jul 2026
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Larks Never Will When They're Captive by DroughtofApathy for viv_w
Fandoms: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
12 Jan 2025
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Ten people gather on Robins Island for an amusing, delightfully droll weekend in the country. When a harmless parlor game reveals troubling secrets, and their eccentric host drops dead on the sitting room floor, the guests soon realize their reputations aren't the only things at stake.
And the bodies just keep piling up.
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- Part 29 of The Gilded Age of Broadway Divas
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22 Jul 2026