Workhouse Stories

When Violet Tennison, a young girl living in a small town in Victorian England, witnesses a tragic event, her family is never the same again. Her family is torn apart, and she is thrust deeper into poverty. Violet goes to the Workhouse, a cruel institution, for the lowest of the low. However, when a figure from her past comes back ot haunt her and take her away, she discovers something that will change her life forever.

A girl, Sapphire and her 5 sisters, Emerald, Diamond, Jade, Citrine, and Lazuli have been taken everywhere and anywhere but home ever since they were orphaned. read about how they go on in life and the outcomes.

When Peony Carter's little sister is abducted, she has to face the fact that she is perhaps the only person who has the skills to uncover what has happened. Unless she can convince P.I., Philip Greyhew, to help, but will he brave the childhood spectres come back to haunt him? Only teamwork will tame the ghosts of the past to preserve the future of a whole community. Can they succeed and confront the horror buried for so long?

This short story is an insight into life for some, gone back a lot of years

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Chapter 1: The story of Tom Marvolo Riddle's tragic childhood before Hogwarts. WARNING: This story contains scenes and situations that some people may find triggering. Caution is advised to younger audiences and those affected by torture, manipulation, death, abuse, bullying and troubled childhoods. DISCLAIMER: This is purely fan based. The Harry Potter world and its characters belongs to JK Rowling. NOTE: All of the music or images used throughout this story do not belong to me and are the property of their creators. Now formalities out of the way, I hope you enjoy reading this story as much as I enjoy writing it.

Have you ever thought what it would be like to have no food? The constant starvation lingering inside of you and the ever increasing workload that you are faced with? Neither did this family, until the famine struck.

The story of a workhouse boy in the Victorian era falling in love with a rich girl. Gregory, a chimney sweep from the workhouse, falls in love with Rosalie, the workhouse owners daughter. Rosalie's father, Johnathan, will do anything to hurt and abuse the children in the workhouse and her mother mother, Marie, was a housewife until she randomly left the family to go to Russia. Rosalie's brother Jeremy is an overachiever who wants to be just like their father, but he doesn't know the atrocities that Johnathan commits every day. Will Rosalie and Gregory's love manage to make it through the disapproval of the others and the daily beatings that the children get? Read to find out!

In the city of Agora, every family has to pay a ransom for every child they bring into the world due to the over increasing population. And the ones who can't pay the required 20,000 rashes, unwillingly force their offspring into becoming an outsider and obtaining a lowly paid life when they're found out. Because of this Blaire Willowby has never set foot in the outside world. All her life she has been kept inside, hidden away at the very sound of a door knock. Except all that changes on her sixteenth birthday and Blaire finally has the chance to leave her dungeon and explore Agora. However it suddenly goes horrifically wrong and her world is turned into chaos as she is forced to run for her life or join the many other illegal children who stalk the city as workers for the workhouse - the believed and rightful home of many for the Illegimates. But that doesn't stop Blaire and her now found friends especially the smartass Knight from escaping the hardships inside, only to fall upon a life threatening plan that will affect all the Illegimates. Will Blaire and her friends be able to stop before it's too late for all of them?

It's the 1840s and the Irish Potato Famine has struck the population of Ireland. Families struggle to maintain what they have and supply food. People starve, and find themselves going to only one place; the workhouse. The McCreary's have owned a family farm for as long as they can remember. It's always been their way of life. But when the famine strikes, where do they find themselves? Will they be able to produce a harvest to keep their family alive, or will they find themselves struggling through a lifetime?

This is a book set in the Victorian era; this is a choice book so every chapter there will be a decision to make. The fate of your survival is in your and only your hands. Good luck...

When Eliza is thrown into the millhouse she soon becomes close to Edmund, the master's son. Will their relationship blossom or will they struggle under societal divides?

Life in the workhouse is hard. Your family separated and you have no freedom.

The Devil's Hound On the outskirts of London a mysterious beast is killing livestock. In a nearby workhouse there are rumours of a man transforming into a beast. Persuaded to investigate Professor Ashcroft insists the rumours are the work of hoaxers, but his assistant Nigel Briggs fears that the beast killing livestock and the rumours from the workhouse are the same creature. A creature with an insatiable hunger to hunt and kill. A creature that needs to be stopped no matter the cost

A sequel story to The Flame Owl, a novelette I published last summer. After Dr Barton's death, Lowe Road workhouse warden Andrew Russell has to employ a new deputy. He is at his wits' end - until a mysterious soldier smooths his path to Russell's door.