1920s Stories

"I know you are a man who has lost a great deal, Mr. Shelby. And I know that fear is the only language you think Birmingham speaks. But I have spent ten years with the Sisters; your shadows don't frighten me nearly as much as the thought of a child going without a coat tomorrow." She is a woman of cloth and conviction. He is a man of lead and whiskey. Mabel is the lead teacher at the Grace Shelby Institute, a place built on the sins of the Shelby family. She isn't under any illusions about who pays her wages; she's seen the blood on the notes. But while the rest of Small Heath trembles at the click of iron-shod heels in the night, Mabel simply keeps her needle moving. When Thomas Shelby wanders into her classroom at two in the morning, he's looking for the silence his own mind refuses to give him. Instead, he finds a woman who refuses to be his victim or his devotee. To Tommy, she is a sanctuary he doesn't deserve. To Mabel, he is a soul that no amount of prayer can fix-but that doesn't mean she won't try. A story of faith, fire, and the mending of a man who thought he was beyond repair.

At eighteen, Cora Shelby is the untouchable darling of the Peaky Blinders. Kept strictly in the shadows of her brothers' violent empire, she is the family's carefully guarded secret. But when the Black Hand descends on the family, the Shelbys are forced to flee their mansions and return to the mud of Small Heath to survive. Tommy's desperation brings in mercenaries: Aberama Gold and his lethal, prizefighter son, Bonnie. Savage, bruised, and devastatingly charming, Bonnie is everything Cora has been sheltered from. To Aberama, Cora is a distraction that will get his son killed. To Tommy, Bonnie is just a hired fist who has no business breathing the same air as his baby sister. But in the claustrophobic, smoke-filled rooms of a family at war, the electric pull between the gypsy fighter and the mafia princess is instantaneous. And catastrophic. Because in a vendetta where one wrong move means a bullet, falling for a Shelby might just be the prettiest poison of them all.

No grave can hold his body down. Thomas Shelby would crawl home to her. thomas shelby x fem!oc cqntralperk © 2025

Can Daphne stick by Tommy's side when his ambition has no limits? A slow burn Thomas Shelby fanfic.

In the fall of 1921, Valerie Sigrid fled from her home country of Odin to the isolated city of Nastrond, Helheim, where nothing comes cheap and kindness is a labor, not a virtue. She spends her days there lonely and constantly agonizing over the past- until she meets Lance and Lila Hundingsbane, two siblings struggling to make ends meet. Although she finds refuge in them, times are getting tougher by the day in Nastrond. Valerie wrestles with her morality. Desperation calls on all three of them to do things that both protect their livelihoods and put them at risk. And meanwhile, the Odish president's daughter has gone missing. Note: Although not particularly spicy, this story does contain mature themes and moderate sexual content

May 1st, 1919 20 year-old Julienne D'Auving is returning to America after the traditional 1 year escape to Europe as all socialites of the period have before her. However, her warm welcome party has turned into one for a funeral. Her father has passed away, and without sons she was made Heiress to the Auving Cotton Co, its headquarters in the center of New Orleans Louisiana. But under the cotton bales, lays a secret. A secret known to everyone but her. May 1st, 1920 Enter Alastor Hartfelt: The Radio Heartthrob. Being of mixed origin Alastor knew he'd never really have a firm standing here in this port of Sin except in a speakeasy or recording studio, the latter in particular. For if there was one thing giving him leverage in New Orleans, it would be his abilities of detection. Without fail, Alastor has uncovered more scandals and exploits than any radio reporter in the county but will likewise bury them with a price. At any rate, the public love the drama he presents; yet he doesn't take their affection all too seriously. To him there was nothing more enjoyable than the life of a cad... but maybe, just maybe Julienne was the one he needed to tune his frequencies?

In Every Lifetime with you . . . . . "၁၀၆ နှစ်ဆိုတဲ့ အချိန်ကာလက... လူတစ်ယောက်ကို မေ့ပစ်ဖို့ လုံလောက်ရဲ့လား?" "အနှစ်တစ်ထောင်ဆိုရင်တောင် ကျွန်တော်အဲဒီမျက်ဝန်းတွေကိုမမေ့ပါဘူး"

the light of the down hide the truth of existence as He struggled with no effort that paid. light was so dark even as a Christian she could barely strive.

Falling deeply in love with her idol from the 1920s... and saving his life... Katie Hearst, a mountain climbing enthusiast, gets the shock of her life when she is sent back in time and meets the soon-to-be mountaineering legend Sandy Irvine as he goes to school at Merton College, Oxford, England. She knows his story - he perishes on Mt. Everest with other mountaineering legend George Mallory as they try to reach the summit on June 8th, 1924. She befriends him, as well as those closest to him, and lives life in the last bit of 1923 and early 1924. When she realizes that she can save his life, she decides to tell him not to go to Everest. He is determined to go, though, which makes her mission difficult. Also... she falls in love with him while trying to accomplish her mission and while she spends time with him and his friends. He falls in love with her, too, and this causes problems with his married girlfriend Marjory. How will Sandy react when he realizes that the real reason why Katie glued herself to his side was to convince him to give up on his dreams? Well, regardless, it could ultimately save his life. Based on the true story of the mountaineering legend Andrew Comyne Irvine, or Sandy, the young 21-year-old Englishman who had a dream of summiting the tallest mountain in the world, and who aimed to do so with other mountaineering legend George Mallory. Whether they reached the summit or not is a mystery to this day. Sadly, they died on the mountain. Sandy's body hasn't been found while George's was found back in 1999. This story takes place right before Sandy leaves for Everest, and he is your average 1920's Oxford student. Most the events are based off of real events that happened with Sandy, as told in his biography called "Fearless on Everest" written by his great-niece Julie Summers. Rating Warning: some language, sexual content & sensuality (no sex scenes, but it is implied)

Want to know more about my Original Characters from my fanfictions? Then you're in the right place 💕 Some of these already have been introduced; others have not. Nonetheless, they are still mine and if you want to use them, please ask me first. ________________________________________ Started: 07.06.2026 Ended: ????

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

Writing this novel out of pure boredom, and after reading and watching agatha christie's mystery novels. I decided to make one myself. ~ ˚　　　　✦　　　.　　. 　 ˚　.　　　　　 . ✦　　　 　˚　　　　 . ★⋆. ࿐࿔ 　　　.   　　˚　　 　　*　　 　　✦　　　.　　.　　　✦　˚ 　　　　 ˚　.˚　　　　 inspo. detective chinatown ˖ . ݁𝜗𝜚. ݁₊ enola holmes ˖ . ݁𝜗𝜚. ݁₊

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။

Dolores "Lola" Ventura has always known there were things in the world no one could explain - no creo en brujas pero que las hay, las hay, right? But nothing could have prepared her for time-travel being a real thing. Stuck in 1923 Sheffield, Lola needs to find a way to survive without a safety net and with only the faintest idea of which social norms to abide by. Luckily, she is quickly hired by the newly opened The Jingly Shillings pub as a barmaid, and offered a small cupboard to sleep in temporarily. Now, all she needs to do is mind her own business and steer clear of the pub's less-than-law-abiding staff and their less-than-legal (or-ethical) dealings. Nevertheless, when a gang war breaks loose and Lola's employer is no other than gang boss Roy Finch, she has no choice but to get involved in the boys' business, and become part of the family.

There is too much to do and no time left. A new, possibly dangerous visitor to the speakeasy? A visitor who's dragged his past along with him, nonetheless. A past with, as Rocky might call it, "A jacked up face and all but the most gruesome disposition." Reopening, kidnapping, and drugs! Oh my! All while enemies new and old close in from all sides. Lackadaisy, Marigold, and Mizti don't know the half of it. There is opportunity in chaos, though. So now ugly choices must be made. Will Freckle accept a fate of martyrdom, or will he and Ivy fight? Will the past swallow up a Viktor and Mordecai, or will friends, old and new, pull them from the mire? Will Rocky die shrivelled and forgotten along with his ship, or will Mitzi burn her world and everyone in it for a little more room to stretch her wings?

Vee doesn't know how to love halfway. Not with Monty. Their relationship is toxic, intense, and consuming, but she stays anyway-because leaving him has never felt like an option. And when he disappears in the middle of the roaring 1920s, she follows him into a world of jazz, chaos, and consequences she doesn't fully understand.

The age of the Roaring Twenties is marred by the outcome of the Civil War. The victory of the South marked the beginning of a new political regime: slavery is thriving, and the judge needs but one thing-the 'Slave Theory'-in order to deprive an innocent man of all rights of property, and to condemn him to penal servitude. John Laurens, a disgraced abolitionist and convicted criminal, finds himself in the very heart of a vast political conspiracy, while trying to unravel the dark mystery surrounding his newfound owner. - [LAMS] CHECK OUT KOTIK's ANIMATIC BASED ON THIS FIC! Fanart, news and more - @theory_of_shit (inst) Includes heavy OOC. Cover art - sagistra (special illustration) Story - Hamilkovsky Inspired by Rogueangelll's "Not a Slave" series.

"Fearing it will suppress you, ignoring it will overpower you and using it for the greater good will destroy what was known to you." "Controlling is the key to magic." --- Nine months ago, Elise James would have escaped the rubble and the pain if she had followed her professor's advice and kept her Ravenclaw instincts. But as a dragon lover and a thirst of curiosity and adventure, Elise will find herself in the city of the New York. For there she will find herself again in the ways she had wished to have forgotten about.

For a child conceived under the influence of amortentia, they cannot feel anything. Emotions was a foreign language, one they could spend a thousand lifetime studying but never truly understand. A trait like this bred villains commonly seen in stories, to be shunned by society and never to be accepted. So let me teach you a trick. By observing human behavior long enough, even an animal can mimic them with ease. Written by, Just_Darling