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Former shadow detective turned news anchor Victor Macallan is asked to casually look into a unique case involving a prominent member of government who mysteriously vanished during a visit to New Orleans.
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Freddy is a bartender, as well as his good friend Patrick. Unfortunately, Patrick's mam is sick, so he needs someone to take over his swing shifts. Who else but Freddy to step up to the plate?
...Who exactly is he serving?
A one-shot, and a scenario I just thought of randomly. I love Mafiafell. Maybe I'll continue this with a proper plot. Eh.
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Mob Boss Carmine and Lounge Singer Lux don't see a future for their romance, but debts and obligations bring them back together. Sudden blazing attraction threatens to burn away the secrets that they've built their lives around. A series of monster kidnappings, Magic Prohibition, and the human mafia raise the stakes of their game even higher. Oh, and they may be soulmates.
Love is a risk they can’t afford.
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i dreaded a parting to come (when we met again) by shenzhenblues for slothjae
Fandoms: SEVENTEEN (Band)
12 Jun 2025
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Set in 1930s Korea, Hansol is a gifted pianist in a hidden jazz club. There, he meets Chan, a captivating underground dancer whose fierce spirit ignites something deep in Hansol’s heart. As their love blossoms, the harsh realities of society threaten to tear them apart.
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Someone who died in the 1940s in New York, and someone who died in Las Vegas in the 1970s would have good reason never to have run into each other. And people who know each other in life might not ever run into each other in hell. But what if their paths had crossed? Would they even recognise each other if they met again?
A tale of organized crime, sin, and love in 1930s/1940s Manhattan.
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It’s the 1930s in the Crescent City, and Alastor Valois accidentally summons a demon.
But not just any demon—Charlie Morningstar: a radiant, bubbly ray of sunshine with a dangerous secret and a target on her back.
Now soul-bound, the two must navigate a city crawling with ghosts, curses, and monsters. Their only hope of freedom lies in defeating The Jaws of the Black Hunt—a fanatical occult group devoted to an ancient eldritch god… one who’s madly in love with Charlie.
To save her, Alastor must confront the ghosts of his past, the mysteries unraveling around them, and the truth he can no longer deny: He wasn’t supposed to fall in love. But now he’ll burn the world before he lets her goSeries
- Part 1 of Devoted as Hell
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Encerrado tras las rejas por tercera vez, Rin espera que el mundo siga sin él. Pero cuando el pasado y el deseo llaman a la puerta, descubrirá que no toda condena se paga entre barrotes.
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Rin piensa en Hiori mientras esta en la cárcel.
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un-american activities by ballantyne (sixties)
Fandoms: The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1983)
09 Jun 2025
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Jerry Wood looks at him with a face that's familiar — not because he really knows the schoolteacher so much as the fact that he has the face that most people have out here in the Panhandle: weathered from the storm, aged too far ahead of time, and his skin cleaves to his face from all of that mixing with the starvation they all feel now. No matter where one went down here, you always were hungry for water, for food, for anything except the dust that kicked into your sinuses or your face.
Still, his face retains something that most people have not: kindness. That's still present in his face, in the warmth of his eyes as he says, "You shouldn't be smokin'. You're too young to smoke."
Ponyboy thinks of the past while he gets ready to leave for church. Heroism comes in many forms.
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Cincinnati, Ohio, 1930.
The Great Depression affected everyone. Hundreds and thousands of people were out of jobs, living in Hoovervilles, homeless.
And one of those people was Holly Gilbert, a young woman who was stuck at home, living an unfulfilling job as a small town waitress.
Until one day.
A chance encounter would turn her entire life upside down, one man at the center of it all.
Fred Dougherty.
This is their story.
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- English
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- 10,813
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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In 1930's France, tensions rise as the economy crashes. To protect their children from these hardships, two aristocrats who are involved in politics send their sons, Marc Anciel and Nathaniel Kurtzberg, to the same English boarding school, where they meet and form an impenetrable bond.
Don't let the politics put you off! I promise this story doesn't contain much, and it's not crucial to the story.
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The Sunshine Detective And Happytime Murderer by ItsKarebear
Fandoms: Hazbin Hotel (Web Series)
07 Jun 2025
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The year is 1932. New York detective Charlie transfers to the most unusual city in America, New Orleans, to start an investigation agency. The Crescent City has a terrible habit. When people go missing, they stay gone. One day, Charlie investigates a chilling missing person’s case, and the last person to see them alive is Alastor, the charming radio host. When a missing person’s case turns into a homicide, it becomes a race against time for the bubby detective to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer and stop a series of murders.
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Disease by ProudSilkies
Fandoms: Hawkeye (TV 2021), Black Widow (Movie 2021), Marvel Cinematic Universe
06 Jun 2025
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A termilally ill Yelena meets vampire!Kate in 1930’s New Orleans.
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From Death We Rise - The Developing Collections by 11terminus11
Fandoms: Original Work, From Death We Rise - Original Work
05 Jun 2025
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Baltimore, Maryland, 1936. A decade of change and struggle, masking the individuals who moved by shadow. Half a century after a mass exodus out of the States by Those Who Run The Night, and after the country began to fill its power vacuums and grow into something greater. The appeal of wealth became clear to those with unlimited time. Violence during the day could effectively draw attention away from the blood drained during the evening. When a series of young men, just beginning to explore the world, find a promise of employment and health, who could blame them for accepting?
From Death We Rise follows a group of vampires recounting their experience serving an industrial “innovator” and political machine, Mr. James Reynolds, and the forces that gave them the ability to free themselves from a blood contract. When Anthony is sent to kill another fellow man—or, fittingly, fellow creature—he begins a chain reaction for freedom, flight, and an opportunity to truly feel the fear sitting deep in the chest. How much must one overcome to find strength again? And how much is changed beyond repair in the face of damage?
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1938, Chicago. The Mayor is dead and a ghost is haunting the halls of the Elsinores' house. The daughter of the Vice Mayor, Ophelia Polonius, has hired Horatio Witten, a private investigator and her fiance's best friend from college, to investigate who or what is terrorizing her fiance Hamlet. But the problem is, ghosts don't exist. Unless...
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Rio Vidal is a small-time car thief, and Agatha Harkness is a big-time serial killer dubbed by national press as the Witch Killer.
Both running from the law, they meet each other at an old run down diner where an attempted-robbery takes place, and their lives change forever.
Rio's persistent and down bad, and Agatha has no issue with the attention, but what happens when you put two selfish and chaotic people together, and mix it with love, lust, and violence?
Nothing good, but everything delicious.
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Bonnie and Clyde AU
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January 1933 — Henry Fox, a mystery novelist, is called to an urgent meeting in New York City, cutting his book tour unexpectedly short. Relying on the connections of his oldest friend, Percy Okonjo, he secures a compartment on the California Zephyr, a train running from San Francisco to Chicago. Bunked with Alex Diaz, a charismatic lawyer, Henry settles in for a comfortable trip.
When the train becomes snowbound in the Rocky Mountains and one of the passengers is found dead in his berth, an inconvenience becomes a ticking clock. Henry, determined to help Pez and keep an innocent person out of police custody, agrees to play detective. As the hours tick down, one thing becomes starkly clear: the murderer is, without a doubt, still on the train — one of the ten strangers stuck in the corridors and compartments of the Zephyr.
________________________The Murder on the Orient Express AU I haven't shut up about for 10+ months.
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you have to be a killer by allandmore99
Fandoms: Succession (TV 2018), Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
29 May 2025
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The year is 1930. The Great Depression is in full swing, but you wouldn’t know it in the first-class saloons of transatlantic steamers or the dining car of luxury trains chugging their way across the Alps.
Samuel Portnoy Jr., who would never deign to be called anything other than just “Sam” —is only 33 years old but has blazed a trail across the world making a name for himself as the whizkid of detective work, the best thing since Sherlock Holmes. He was hoping to spend a few days of R&R in Istanbul, but circumstances land him in yet another complicated pickle.
(Succession x Murder on the Orient Express AU)
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Sequel to my previous work, 'The Girl in the Iceberg.'
After defeating Amon and the separatists, Korra's identity as the Avatar has now become public knowledge, as has her relationship with Asami. She no longer has to hide, but finds that her former secrets being revealed introduces a whole host of new challenges.
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- Part 2 of Restoring a Frozen World
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You've just been handed the most extraordinary letter of your life. What if the person who wrote it, the one who understands you better than anyone, turns out to be the last person you'd ever expect?
1938. Thomas Barrow's grey life is punctuated by his constant sparring with Edward Courtenay, an aloof aristocrat turned Bloomsbury stationery shop worker. Edward embodies all Thomas resents; their days a symphony of barbed remarks and antagonism.
Yet, a different connection has blossomed. Thomas, as "T.B.," found an unexpected kindred spirit in "E.C.," a mysterious pen pal. Their letters brim with wit, sincerity, and a profound understanding of loneliness. Through this correspondence, Thomas discovered a connection almost too good to be true.
When a threat to their livelihoods forces a truce, a shocking realization dawns. The elegant handwriting, the familiar phrases, the shared frustrations... Could the man Thomas has been falling for on paper be the very same man he barely tolerates in person?
There's just one Question left:Can love truly blossom in the unlikeliest of places, even between two men seemingly destined to be adversaries?- Language:
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In 1930s America, Miguel makes his grand escape from Oswald Penitentiary. Only problem? He's chained to a guy who keeps trying to kill him.