Belleepoque Stories

It's 1893, and Kitty's eleven cousins - her adoptive siblings - have all moved out. She only has Sherlock Holmes for company, until Cousin Joey returns from America alongside his dashing benefactor, Benedict Hawkins. Scotland Yard Inspector Tobias Thackery has spent a decade looking for his runaway sister. New clues on her trail point to an anarchist plot, and Kitty won't be left out as Tobias recruits family members into a spy network. The risks are real, and more personal than Kitty expects, on her whirlwind quest to self-fulfilment. * ONC2023 shortlister! Prompt 51: The problem with red flags is that I'm attracted to them. * To be completed on July 1st, ~40k words. Cover by @cxmern

Paris, 1878. One evening. Two souls. No promises - only truth. In the gilded hush of a Parisian ballroom lit by crystal and candlelight, a German Duke and a Swedish Countess meet as strangers. Both are too well-mannered to speak openly and too experienced to play games. Yet over the course of a single evening, through carefully chosen words and deliberate silences, they come to know one another with an intimacy that transcends touch. Surrounded by music, mirrors, and the watching eyes of a world built on restraint, they engage in a quiet, exquisite duel of language and longing - bound not by time, but by what they choose to say before it ends. Only Once, Entirely is a story of elegance and emotional precision, where love is not declared, but understood. A novella for anyone who has ever longed to be seen - just once - completely.

The year is 1895, and famed composer Johann Bergmann is dead, leaving Matilda Brackenborough, a young Englishwoman who wanted nothing more than to study with her longtime idol, in the dust. With only a handful of francs and a book of half-written compositions to her name, Matilda must find her own way in the chaotic world of the Parisian music scene. Along the way, she meets a sword-slinging opera singer, a violinist with a mysterious past, and a new composition teacher who might just be the prime suspect in Bergmann's murder. All of them have something to hide. Will Matilda and her new friends solve the mystery before Bergmann's killer strikes again? Cover by @WorksByAmeliss

Quando o bem avaliado pintor Kim Taehyung faz um convite irrecusável para Jeon Jungkook, um coreano recém chegado na Paris de 1910, o estudante das belas artes descobrirá que existem outros tons pastéis por baixo da fama do mais velho. Ao lado daquele homem devasso e intelectual, Jungkook viverá uma imensa paixão que quebrará todos os paradigmas de sua índole tracionalista, até que a iminência de uma guerra mortífera chegue para colocar todos os seus questionamentos em cheque. PARIS SERA TOUJOURS PARIS: LA PLUS BELLE VILLE DU MONDE!

Set on a snowy night in Paris, during the premiere of a new ballet at a newly constructed opera house, four stories unfold that night. From an aristocrat to a ballerina to a composer, every thought and wish is told in L'Opéra de Gotier