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Torchwood, Aix-en-Provence:
"Outside the Government, under the radar of the French, behind the backs of your office superiors –”
“– above this bar, just up those stairs and through the doorway to the left."
Donna Noble, on holiday in the South of France, comes across a charismatic young man who's trying to get over his break-up with his girlfriend, Rose. But does he have designs on her body or her filing skills?
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Torchwood has, surprisingly enough, a HR department. And the lot of the Torchwood HR department is not a happy one.
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The inner core of the King's Council of Gaaldine meet to discuss a secret treaty offered by the dying King of Gondal, their historic enemy. The proposed treaty touches Prince Sherlock in a uniquely personal way. Leaving the Council session in desperate need of oblivion, he finds Fate has thrown a newly appointed member of the Palace guard in his way, a boy with the face of a Raphael angel. But should he call it Fate, or are human hands pulling the strings?
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- Part 14 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 15 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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Two short ficlets, written for Commodorified and Shezan, exploring a couple of issues which happened after the curtain fell at the end of Rigging Screws.
Not stand alone; read Rigging Screens, Size 1 3/8 inch, galvanised first
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The Boys of Summer by AJHall
Harry Potter - Fandom, Sports RPF, Political RPF - UK 20th-21st c.
11 Apr 2013
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The young Bill Weasley persuades his father to take him to the baffling Muggle sport of cricket. It's Headingley, 1981, and history is about to be made - if only Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters don't stop it
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A coda to the account of the quest of John Watson, Physician.
This time there's a bed.
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- Part 13 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 14 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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Frobisher was a good man.
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Sherlock, Crown Prince of Gaaldine, is a marked man. His brother has proclaimed him an outlaw and decreed that those who knowingly assist him will share his fate. But, five years ago, under the guise of the consumptive Mr Verney, Sherlock rescued the life-savings of one Martha Hudson, widow, in the town of Sancta Maria inter Prata. Mrs Hudson always repays her debts. Even when that involves facing up to Lord Moran, the most ruthless assassin in the three kingdoms.
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- Part 12 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 13 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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“Don't ask me to prove what I'd do to free the hostages. Just - don't.”
Owen Harper swore once he'd never set foot in a hospital in a staff capacity again. But an accident with an alien artefact puts him exactly where he doesn't want to be: behind the administrator's desk in a large medical facility. To make matters worse, it's somewhere called Barrayar, which seems to combine far future technology with the social attitudes of an ancient episode of Dr Kildare. And then he's called to a Situation on the roof, and meets someone who reminds him eeriely of home.
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Seven years on, Ralph and Laurie have found a precarious refuge together in Gibraltar. But in the post-War world attitudes are hardening and positions becoming polarised, and they find themselves engaged in a new conflict, one in which they may not necessarily be on the same side. And then an unexpected visitor arrives.
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A Study In Starkadders by AJHall for oursin
Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
11 Nov 2012
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In The Veiled Lodger Watson claims Holmes was in practice for 23 years and that he assisted him for 17 of them. Knocking off three years for the Great Hiatus and assuming they met in 1881 gives us a Holmes who begins practice in 1878 and retires in 1901 or thereabouts to keep bees on the Sussex Downs. Watson appears to have lost contact with his old friend some time in the late 1900s, before they were reunited in August 1914, the reasons for this breach in their long friendship being unspecified.
Cold Comfort Farm, also set in Sussex, takes place some short time after "the Anglo-Nicaraguan Wars of 1948".
Once one applied a little arithmetic, the solution became elementary...
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Gondal, 1670. The Court is a hot-bed of rumour, gossip and barely restrained tensions.
Queen Felicia worries. She worries about her inability to conceive a child, about her husband's wandering eye, about the ambitions of the heir-presumptive, Prince James and - most of all, perhaps - about what "that Royal brat", the fifteen-year-old hostage Prince Sherlock of Gaaldine, is going to spring on them all next.
A shot rings out across an autumnal lake in North-Eastern Gondal. But at whom was the gun truly aimed, and how many decades will it take before its echoes finally die?
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- Part 12 of Queen of Gondal Universe
- Part 11 of The Queen of Gondal
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The Loyalties of the Courtesan by AJHall for Clanwilliam
Sherlock (TV), Gondal - Bronte children
19 May 2012
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The most notorious woman in Gaaldine is on a mission. A chance encounter five years earlier left Gertie owing a debt of gratitude which is unexpectedly called in following the Reaching Beck Bridge disaster. With an unidentified traitor sitting in the heart of the Court, the fate of two kingdoms rests in her hands.
Can be read either before or after The Choices of the King.
Downloadable version available here
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- Part 10 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 11 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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The Choices of the King deals with the immediate aftermath of the final scene of The Abbess of Norburyness. With the Crown Prince missing, his numerous enemies at Court strive to blacken his name with accusations of everything from cold-blooded murder to treason. The King is forced to take drastic action to prevent all-out revolt in Council, though it feels like cutting off his own right hand.
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- Part 9 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 10 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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David Hebron grows up on a secluded country estate as a ward of the Abbey of Norburyness, kept in ignorance of his true origins, his very name selected from the Bible by random chance. As he passes from boyhood to adulthood a sequence of apparently chance events begin to show him who he is and what he has the potential to become. Others, though, also have plans. For them, David Hebron represents an new battlefield in the unending struggles between Gondal and Gaaldine, aristocracy and monarchy, religious tolerance and repression. On a bridge above a rushing beck in the mountainous North-East corner of Gaaldine David Hebron is about to come face to face with a member of his true family for the first time. The consequences will shake kingdoms to their foundations.
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- Part 9 of Queen of Gondal Universe
- Part 8 of The Queen of Gondal
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The Master's Mate's Stratagem by AJHall for kalypso
Sherlock (TV), Cabin Pressure, Gondal - Bronte children
28 Jan 2012
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Argosy of Ragusa, crew (as usual) arguing
Lumbering to leeward in the wind-whipped Med
With a cargo of seed corn,
Salt pork, cabbages,
Brandywine and small beer and passengers in bed– Trad. arr caulkhead
Lord Lestrade of Gondal, eloping from the Kingdom of Naples with Sally Donovan, a merchant's daughter, takes passage aboard the Santa Gertrude for the risky winter passage of the Straits of Otranto. When the ship's cat takes a fancy to the contents of Lord Lestrade's sea-chest, all that stands between the Santa Gertrude's crew and the wrath of the most hot-tempered aristocrat in the three kingdoms are the quick wits of the master's mate. Fortunately, he may almost be as brilliant as the ship-owner's son believes.
For kalypso, on her birthday.
Downloadable ebook version available here.
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- Part 8 of Queen of Gondal Universe
- Part 7 of The Queen of Gondal
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Answers a number of questions raised by The Hounds of Baskerville
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The Curious Incident of the Knight in the Library by AJHall
Sherlock (TV), Gondal - Bronte children
5 Jan 2012
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An ill-assorted party of English travellers arrive in Gaaldine, on the very edge of Europe, where tensions and buried secrets in the party are about to erupt in bloody murder. And murders happening on Palace premises are very much matters of interest to Sherlock, Crown Prince of Gaaldine, whatever the head of Palace Security thinks about high-born amateurs trespassing on his patch.
A downloadable ebook version appears here
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- Part 6 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 6 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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After any military action comes the duty of reporting back to HQ and writing letters to the families of the fallen.
So it is after the sea-wolves' raid on Alwentdale.
A downloadable ebook version can be found here
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- Part 5 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 5 of Queen of Gondal Universe
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From the shore at Aulis to the palace in Gaaldine, to be a princess is to be a sacrifice.
In a remote country residence Master Ripley, a physician famed for his knowledge of frenzy and melancholia, tends a distraught woman broken by the ruthless dynastic politics of her House. The unexpected arrival of her kinsman the Crown Prince is a catalyst which forces Ridley to recognise the brooding evil at the root of his patient's malady, a curse which has poisoned the lives of four generations and which sits so close to the Crown that treason itself ceases to be a relevant consideration.
Meanwhile, death, fire and destruction creep inland from the sea, and the wind is changing.
A downloadable ebook version of this can be found here
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- Part 4 of The Queen of Gondal
- Part 4 of Queen of Gondal Universe