1920s Stories

"Don't care if he's guilty, Don't care if he's not; He's good and he's bad, And he's all that I've got." She grew up watching them, fearing them. A young girl in Birmingham, being told to stay away from the Shelby family at whatever cost. Whispering their name as if they'd hear her, and knowing even then that if she were to end up caught up in the lot that she'd end up dead. But that didn't stop the lad with the piercing blue eyes from thinking that she was the most beautiful creature in the world. The first time he'd ever seen her, he knew that there would seldom be a girl that could ever catch his eye just as she did. And he was right. She remained the apple of his eye for years and years, never saying much to her, knowing that she hated him for who he was and what he did. He didn't mind, though. He hated himself, too. Until one day, one instant, brought them together in a way that neither of them could ever foresee or control. A wedding. cover creds to: @mxklson !!

In which Matthew Crawley finds himself unexpectedly drawn to Isabelle "Belle" Levinson-the spirited American niece of Robert Crawley. After the tragic and mysterious death of her parents in a fire, Belle comes to live at Downton Abbey with her relatives. But will she return the affection of the heir to the estate? As Belle navigates her life in England, her presence stirs both hearts and tensions. Will Lady Mary accept her cousin's growing closeness with Matthew-or will rivalry and secrets come between them? Matthew Crawley x Belle Levinson (OC) - spanning Seasons 1 through 6. Disclaimer: I don't own Downton Abbey-only my original characters.

Adeline Thornton - daughter of Jack and Elizabeth Thornton Life does not pause to ask permission before it carries you forward. It carried Adeline Thornton straight to Brookfield - a quiet, unhurried town that seemed, at first glance, too small to hold any great significance. She arrived with two worn traveling cases, a teaching certificate, and a hope she barely dared to name, certain she was simply passing through one chapter on her way to the next. She was wrong. Brookfield had a way of getting beneath your skin without you noticing - in the warmth of a neighbor's kitchen, in the laughter of children who trusted you with their curiosity, in the slow, steady rhythm of a place that had no interest in rushing itself for anyone. What Adeline had come to give - knowledge, structure, purpose - the town repaid tenfold in ways she hadn't known she was missing. Friendship found her before she thought to look for it. Community wrapped itself around her like something she had always belonged to. And love - the kind that doesn't announce itself grandly but simply settles into the quiet corners of your days until you can no longer imagine life without it - love found her too. She had come to Brookfield to teach. She had not expected it to teach her right back. It was never just a new beginning. It became, without her quite realizing it, home

In 1922 Amsterdam, a quiet pianist and a powerful industrial heir fall in love through letters and fleeting moments. But as their bond deepens, unseen hands begin to alter their words, turning trust into doubt. As silence grows between them, they must uncover the truth behind the deception, before what they have quietly built is lost entirely.

" -In every book in the house, notes from you fall out. All the love that came my way. I found a way to push away. I don't wanna be afraid anymore. I don't want to run from love like I had before.-" thomas shelby x oc peaky blinders 'season 2 'ongoing

Newly married and thrust into life at the Romanian court, Nicholas of Romania and Princess Natalie Paley must learn to live not only with each other, but with the weight of unresolved grief, expectations, and a union born of necessity as much as affection. Court politics prove no less ruthless than those they left behind, and Nicholas soon discovers that love offers little protection against the ever-present shadow of his brother Carol, waiting abroad for the right moment to reclaim power, as well as Natalia's past. Meanwhile, Vladimir finds himself drawn to Romania more often than expected, under the pretext of family visits that quickly become something else. Old feelings resurface where they should not, and the line between restraint and inevitability grows thinner with every meeting. For Irina, marriage offers no refuge. When a devastating revelation shatters what little illusion remained, her union with Feodor becomes a façade, carefully maintained for appearances alone. Turning away from court life, she dedicates herself entirely to the creation of a new hospital, finding in purpose and service a form of fulfilment she never anticipated-and a freedom she had not known she was seeking.

In the deceptive peace of post-war England in 1919, Nera Shelby lives between two worlds. As a member of the infamous Shelby family, she is inseparably bound to a life shaped by power, secrets, and violence. Yet Nera herself longs for something different: for quiet, for normalcy - for a life not constantly lived in the shadow of fear and loyalty. She loves art and beauty in a world marked by dirt and blood. She finds comfort among horses, in their calm and honesty, far removed from the intrigues that surround her family. With her attentive, warm nature, Nera tries to preserve humanity even where there seems to be little room left for it. As political tensions, government interference, and criminal power struggles increasingly destabilize the Shelbys' world, Nera is drawn deeper into a conflict she never sought. Caught between family and self-determination, duty and freedom, truth and silence, she must find her own path. In a world built on secrets, even the desire for normality can become dangerous. And sometimes, gentleness is the greatest form of resistance. ༺═───────────────────═༻ 1 - #shelbyfamily 1- #pb 1 - #bbc 1 - #1920s

A vintage AI catgirl from 1920 wakes up in a modern home. A #catgirl #momlife #scifi #romance #sliceoflife she never saw coming. A chef and an AI have no business being parents. Too bad no one told the 102 kids who crashed their kitchen at 3:03 AM. Between bottles, code, and zero sleep, they learned one truth: you don't program a family... you improvise it. Fueled by coffee, held together by chaos, and stitched with way too much love. This isn't about artificial intelligence. It's about a real, messy, imperfectly perfect love.

The Adventure's of Tor and Kjalder follow the main character Tor, who is an exile from his homeland of Toltec. In his travels he fights monsters, evil cult worshippers, and demons; all to honor the oath he made to protect and rid the world of evil. He is joined by Kjalder who is from the Underdeep wherein he previously resided in the world wall; a living wall of water that spans leagues high, and the entire globe in length separating the western hemisphere from the east. During their travels an oracle tells Tor and Kjalder the end of the world is upon them and with it our heroes need to cross the world wall. The known world of Kaldra have their suspicions of what lies beyond the wall: treasures, heaven, or hell. Tor and Kjalder find themselves in a 1920s inspired America where Lars a detective soon finds that the world he lives in is now being overrun by evil ratmen hellbent on destroying the world. Hello all I am the author and this is my first attempt at writing at a novel and I hope you all enjoy. The novel is completed but I wanted to see if it would be something the community would enjoy so I hope you all do so. If there is enough people who enjoy it I could release half the book on wattpad and look into publishing.

In which a place taken in 1922, Eliza Kalinin, the rebellious postulant yet with higher faith was sent to a Basilica-Castle of Divulged Blood in a mission to gain knowledges on Royal Empire of Ruskyiev's Orthodoxy in pursuit to turn his home, Chapel of Our Lady of Fatima into an education institution. However deep down she may not realize, the holiest place in the Slavic Land she's in shall have strange things occuring... originally written by: Pannochka Domski editor : Norah Juniper

[Medical version] 🇰🇷🇩🇲 🏆x22 accolades Seokjin-version book 2 "ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅ sᴇᴏᴋᴊɪɴ, ᴛɪᴍᴇ ɪs ɴᴏᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴇɴᴇᴍʏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ɪs. -ᴛʜᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇᴋᴇᴇᴘᴇʀ- It all started in the late 1800s when a Kim ancestor entered a shrine with a far-reaching request. Then, in 1920, a young aristocrat, Kim Seokjin, fell hopelessly in love with a beautiful diplomat's daughter. But because of societal expectations, their love was doomed from the start. For almost a century, Seokjin has had to defy time to chase the love of his life due to being trapped in a cruel cycle every 25 years, where he finds her but then loses her to a tragic end. 2025-Now, a renowned and brilliant medical doctor at MinHyun Private Clinic, he was a man of logic and discipline. But when a bright-eyed resident intern from the Dominican Republic steps into his hospital with the same face, doe eyes, and warm smile as the woman he has loved and lost across ages, his world crumbles. But this time Seokjin refused to give in to love-if he ignored her and fought the pull, maybe she would live, and the endless cycle would end. She felt it too-the unexplainable pull toward the cold, distant doctor who refused to look at her but intrigued her deeply. But will fate draw them together again? Can he outrun time itself...or will love once prove stronger than destiny? Credit: Cover @strawberry1d Mood board Aesthetics - @Writer_Tanus Storyboard character scenes - @Strawberry1d Highest ranking #1 Timekeeper 27/1/26 #1 1970 21/2/26 #2 dominicanrepublic 20/1/26 #1 curly 12/2/26 #1. Dominican. 8/2/26 #2 timeless 8/1/26 Published: 23 /03/25 Completed: ? 𝔊𝔢𝔫𝔯𝔢 𝔐𝔢𝔡𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔩 ℜ𝔬𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔐𝔶𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔶 𝔗𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔩 ℜ𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫

The Shelby family wasn't the only family affected by the war. Val Murphy was also sent to France, but she was not fighting. She was one of the nurses that would help the injured soldiers. She as seen the unforgettable. The only reason she went to France was to keep an eye on her brother who was a soldier, he ended up not making . Thinking her life couldn't get any worse she is hit with the terrible news that her mother had passed while she was away. Now it was just her and her drunk of a father. To escape his abuse she fleas to Birmingham where a cousin of hers lives, Lizzie, in hopes of starting off a new life. Although the horrors of France and her father will always fallow her. Is she safe? Is she really, okay? Will they save each other?

၁၉၂၃ ခုနှစ် နိုင်ငံပေါင်းချုပ်အသင်းကြီးက ယစ်မျိုးဉပဒေပြဋ္ဌာန်းပြီးနောက် ကမ္ဘာတစ်ဝန်း မူးယစ်လောကတစ်ခုလုံး လှုပ်လှုပ်ယွယွ ဖြစ်သွားခဲ့ကြသည်။ အင်္ဂလိပ်အစိုးရ၏ ဩဇာခံဖြစ်သော ယစ်မျိုးအရာရှိ Anglo-Burmese အဲရစ်သောဟန်သည် သစ်တောအရာရှိအသွင်ယူကာ မူးယစ်ဂိုဏ်းများကို နှိမ်နင်းရန် အမိန့်ပေးခံရသည်။ ထိုအချိန် အင်္ဂလိပ်အစိုးရ၏ ဩဇာကင်းလွတ်သော ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ ကိုးကန့်ဒေသ ကွမ်လုံနယ်၏ ဒေသတစ်ခုတွင် ဘိန်းရာဇာတစ်ဉီး စိုးမိုးလျက်ရှိသည်။

ငါက မင်းရဲ့ အရိပ်ပဲ။ အရိပ်ဆိုတာ အလင်းရောင်ရှိတဲ့နေရာမှာ အမြဲရှိနေမှာပဲလေ။ မင်း ငါ့ကို ကာကွယ်ချင်ရင် မင်းကိုယ်မင်းပဲ ပျော်အောင်နေစမ်းပါ... အဲ့တာဆို ငါလည်း အဆင်ပြေပြီ... -ရသထင် အရိပ်ဆိုတာ အလင်းရှိမှ ပေါ်တာ။ ငါ့အတွက်တော့ မင်းက အရိပ်မဟုတ်ဘူး... ငါ့ကို အမြဲ အလင်းပေးနေတဲ့ မီးအိမ်တစ်ခုလိုပဲ။ မင်းမရှိရင် ငါ့ကမ္ဘာက မှောင်သွားမှာ... -ဇိန်းအဂ္ဂမာန်

How To Survive War, Love And Other Life Difficulties : A Manual For Respectable Witches *** London, 1926 After the many attacks of Gellert Grindelwald in Europe, the Ministry of Magic decided to recruit more aurors. This initiative didn't stop when the dark wizard was arrested in New York, the 8th December. Ophelia Dei Sentieri, a hard-working and ambitious pureblood woman, was one of the many witches and wizards who applied for a position in the aurors department. While the witch tries to find a way in the sexist and traditionalist world of the Ministry, she befriends some of her coworkers, mostly the other women but also the sociable and respected auror Theseus Scamander. But, with Gellert Grindelwald's escape in May, the war that many thought was avoided seems actually closer than before. After a war that nearly destroyed the Muggle world, another war might also ravage the Wizarding world... *** This is a ongoing fanfic and the updates will not be regular :) Smut-free because the FMC is someone who doesn't "fancy a shag" as JKR said (she can choke on her transphobia an acephobia btw, I think Umbridge might be more human than her at this point).

The music never stops. Neither do the lies. Margot has always been in control-trained to read a room, guide a conversation, and take what isn't freely given. Placed inside one of the most powerful jazz clubs in the city, she knows exactly what she's there for. Names. Weaknesses. Secrets that can break a family from the inside. But something isn't right. The men she's meant to manipulate don't behave as they should. The information she's sent to collect isn't as easy to find. And the further she pushes, the more it feels like she's the one being studied. Because in a room built on deception, Margot isn't the only one playing a role. And when the truth finally surfaces- It won't just destroy the mission. It will destroy her.

Elodie Whitlock comes to New Orleans by train. She is penniless, yet led by vindication. Once the ward of a devastating socialite, the answers of this world do not come easy. They are stuck to crime syndicates, radio stations, and cryptic warehouses-and she must expose them if she ever wishes to save her father from his fate. When she gets a job at WCRL Station, it seems things are finally looking up. But as her path is tangled with that of Alastor Hartfelt's, a budding radio announcer, she quickly learns that New Orleans isn't the only thing with a dangerous underside. Alastor Hartfelt is concerned with maintaining his idyllic life. Once alienated for his race, society now fell to his feet-a testament to his great influence in the Golden Age of Radio. He has power unforeseen. Secrets best left unsaid. And as far as he is concerned, the world is his to have. So when Elodie threatens disruption to his carefully curated world, he is naturally in opposition. In a broken world such as this, the only true law was to mind yourself-and neither seemed too keen on that regard. ─ ⊹ ⊱ ⊰ ⊹ ─ Date Started: 01/28/26 Date Published: 04/05/26

For those who like the Soviet Union. art is not mine credit to those who drew it

Alec Monroe has a gift, and Paul Barrington wants to profit by it. Neither understands the true cost of their arrangement. The Great War casts a long shadow in 1926 Philadelphia. Prohibition is in effect, but largely ignored in the city dubbed "wet as the Atlantic." Séances remain popular, despite the efforts of men like Houdini to reveal mediums as frauds. Class, social, and racial boundaries are razor sharp. Against this backdrop, Paul enlists Alec to help him defraud Henri Deschamps, a wealthy scholar of antiquities from France. Little does Paul know that Henri holds more power than money can buy, and Alec is the key to unlocking it. ONC Prompt 72: A real necromancer sits in on a fake séance. [Author's note/trigger warnings: This story uses period-appropriate language, including terms related to race and sexuality, and discussions of mental health, including suicide.] [All rights reserved. This story is 100% human-generated. No part of this story may be used for the purpose of training A.I.]

After a new island is discovered. Theodore, a botanist, agrees to join his colleague Martin on an expedition to study the local wildlife. He arrives one week after Martin, who's acting a bit off and has brought along another person who he's failed to mention in past letters...