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.

She's 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 like a 𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲, But when someone 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐬 the one she 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬... 𝐍𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 can stop 𝐡𝐞𝐫. ~~~ When y/n moves to Birmingham for her father's factory job, she expects a 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 life. Instead, she meets 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐛𝐲, who soon becomes a close friend. The friendship pulls her into a world people only whisper about-a world of smoke, money, and men 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬. The Shelby family doesn't 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 her. Not Polly. Not Arthur. Not the 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 of what they've done. Only 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐛𝐲 does. But not because she's 𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝. There's something in the way he looks at her-something 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐲, something 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬... something she can't escape. And the worst part? She 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 to. - 🥉#arthurshelby~20.04.2026 🥇#cillianmurphy~11.05.2025 🥈#shelby~20.04.2026 🥇#peakyblindersfanfic~6.05.2026 🥇#1920s~11.05.2026

The year is 1925, The roaring twenties. The music is jumpin' , the ladies are flappin', and racism is more alive then ever. Mr. Pierre Coats, a handsome white man, moves to New York, New York City in order to extend his Cigar Company. Ana Mae, is a young and beautiful African american women finally gets her first job as a maid. Shes young , vibrant, and curious. But when she meets her boss, her colorful world goes from glitz and glam to black and white. Literally.

"Don't care if he's guilty, Don't care if he's not; He's good and he's bad, And he's all that I've got." She grew up watching them, fearing them. A young girl in Birmingham, being told to stay away from the Shelby family at whatever cost. Whispering their name as if they'd hear her, and knowing even then that if she were to end up caught up in the lot that she'd end up dead. But that didn't stop the lad with the piercing blue eyes from thinking that she was the most beautiful creature in the world. The first time he'd ever seen her, he knew that there would seldom be a girl that could ever catch his eye just as she did. And he was right. She remained the apple of his eye for years and years, never saying much to her, knowing that she hated him for who he was and what he did. He didn't mind, though. He hated himself, too. Until one day, one instant, brought them together in a way that neither of them could ever foresee or control. A wedding. cover creds to: @mxklson !!

𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟎𝐬 was ruled by the Shelby family - or more so their gang. The Peaky Blinders were the infamous gang who earned their respect through the fear of the people. With the blades sewn into their flat caps and the weapons tucked into their jackets, people bowed their heads when passing them in the streets. You were considered lucky to have not had a run in with any of the three elder Shelby brothers. Arthur was the eldest. He was known for his fighting. You would often find him in the ring against somebody who was not his size. He went mad during the war and his return was nothing hit a relief for his mind. But when thinking he had finally escaped the war, one had started in his head. Arthur Shelby was his own enemy. Thomas was the second eldest - the most feared. He had a head for business and more common sense than his older brother. He had icy eyes which very rarely softened at the sight of anything. He was known for his trait of being unmerciful and careless. Despite being the second eldest, he was the brother who held the power. The brother who controlled the rest of them. John was the youngest of the three and arguably the softest. With his wonky smile and cheeky remarks, many of the girls in Small Heath found themselves falling at his feet. He would often find himself in trouble for acting childish. He didn't care too much for the business of the gang. He cared for the respect it brought their name. He enjoyed the thrill. And then you had John's twin sister - Francesca. Known for being one of the only Shelby siblings who seemed to laugh at Thomas. Her sister, Ada, being exactly the same. Francesca found that her brothers were ridiculous - too big for their boots as she'd say. Though she liked to use their name to get herself out of trouble. Francesca was often reckless and lacked the awareness one needed for the streets they lived in. She was her mother's daug

Russia, 1922, four months since Nikolai Mrakov died in the Red Terror. He still considers himself dead, no pulse, no reflection. Vampire the world would call him. Horrified by his nature, isolated in his chateau on the Crimean peninsula, weakened by his trauma and adamant refusal to taste the blood of a human, his heart aches despite its lack of a beat. He found a mirror, covered as always, only to find someone waiting behind the glass. She was the fragment of his soul lost the night he was turned, a cruel compensation for the heart no longer beating. Perhaps she can teach him that even a dead heart may still live and love, if the Bolsheviks do not reach him first.

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 to seriously. To him there was nothing more enjoyable than the life of a cad... Or he thinks after a summer soiree with New Orleans' hottest topic of conversation: Julienne Auving: Cotton Countess turned Booze Baroness?

In the distant year of 1895, Estela arrives in New York from Italy, stepping into a whole new world waiting to be discovered. Between classes, unexpected friendships, and dreams yet to be fulfilled, Leam becomes her greatest support-- and perhaps something more. But as their hearts grow closer, secrets, misunderstandings, and the daily struggle to survive will put their feelings to the test. Will they find the courage to follow their hearts before it's too late?

" -In every book in the house, notes from you fall out. All the love that came my way. I found a way to push away. I don't wanna be afraid anymore. I don't want to run from love like I had before.-" thomas shelby x oc peaky blinders 'season 2 'ongoing

Anna is the second youngest Shelby sibling. Her life changes when her brothers left for war. Now that they're back, things have taken a turn for the worst. She has to navigate through this new unforgiving world.

In the golden haze of the 1920s aristocracy, the heirs of a noble house find themselves tangled in love, scandal, and desire. Will the siblings find true love?

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။

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

He used to have a name. Now he answers to whatever he's given. Memory is not lost. It is taken. Rewritten. Controlled. And when he hesitates.... he is taught again. Set in a fictional 1920s-inspired world. ⚠️ Warning: This story explores disturbing themes | violence | control | abuse | forced submission | rape | identity loss | psychological conditioning | This is not a soft story. Inspired by existing characters from ABO Desire the Series Shen Wenlang and Gou Tu... but completely rewritten. The events, identities, and outcomes do not follow the original narrative. Every event is reimagined. Update on Sundays and Wednesdays.

A vintage AI catgirl from 1920 wakes up in a modern home. A #catgirl #momlife #scifi #romance #sliceoflife she never saw coming. A chef and an AI have no business being parents. Too bad no one told the 102 kids who crashed their kitchen at 3:03 AM. Between bottles, code, and zero sleep, they learned one truth: you don't program a family... you improvise it. Fueled by coffee, held together by chaos, and stitched with way too much love. This isn't about artificial intelligence. It's about a real, messy, imperfectly perfect love.

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

In the deceptive peace of post-war England in 1919, Nera Shelby lives between two worlds. As a member of the infamous Shelby family, she is inseparably bound to a life shaped by power, secrets, and violence. Yet Nera herself longs for something different: for quiet, for normalcy - for a life not constantly lived in the shadow of fear and loyalty. She loves art and beauty in a world marked by dirt and blood. She finds comfort among horses, in their calm and honesty, far removed from the intrigues that surround her family. With her attentive, warm nature, Nera tries to preserve humanity even where there seems to be little room left for it. As political tensions, government interference, and criminal power struggles increasingly destabilize the Shelbys' world, Nera is drawn deeper into a conflict she never sought. Caught between family and self-determination, duty and freedom, truth and silence, she must find her own path. In a world built on secrets, even the desire for normality can become dangerous. And sometimes, gentleness is the greatest form of resistance. ༺═───────────────────═༻ 1 - #shelbyfamily 1- #pb 1 - #bbc 1 - #1920s

❝if i wanted that kind of life, i would have chosen someone else. but i chose you. i 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 you.❞ ❝and i choose you. 𝘨𝘰𝘥, i choose you.❞ katy byrd was an ordinary girl--until her stepfather died, and her mother told her the truth: that she's the illegitimate daughter of an american millionaire and the only heir to his massive fortune. in a matter of months, katy is a girl between worlds: on the one hand, an up-and-coming new york socialite with more money and suitors than she could have dreamed, and on the other hand, a barefoot country girl from berkshire who loves to read mystery novels and fish in the creek behind the house. katy must decide which world she truly belongs to-and whether the man she loves belongs in either. tom branson is also between worlds: he was a middle-class man, working as a chauffeur, until he married the daughter of his employer, the earl of grantham. he can't force sybil to give up her family, but he despises the idea of assimilating into the upper class--even though the prospect of a child means it will surely happen. and when tragedy strikes his family, tom is thrown deeper into crisis. his daughter is a crawley, but he is not, and he will not pretend to be. katy gives love freely to anyone who will receive it. tom gives love sparingly to few people indeed. between the grief and the heartbreak and the growing realization that they will both have to choose between the two worlds they live in, perhaps they can create a new world--together. [downton abbey original fanfiction] [tom branson x fem! oc] [extreme slowburn] [seasons 2-6 + movies] highest rankings as of 4/13/26: #1 - coracrawley #1 - edithcrawley #1 - fredastaire #1 - marycrawley #1 - tombranson #2 - 1910s #2 - downtonabbey #2 - thomasbarrow #3 - period #3 - robertcrawley #10 - 1920s

"i did not leave one cage just to end up in another." John Shelby x Fem!OC