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    Black Pudding
    Threadmarks: Prologue: 13/12/31

    Prologue 13th December 1931 A bitterly cold wind blew through the streets of New York, but Winston Churchill was comfortable in the back of his taxi cab. He looked out of the window as the city moved past, regarding the grey outlines of the buildings swathed in a continual thick downpour of...
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    TLIAD: Faith In Our Destiny

    There was a horrible silence on the beach. Harold looked at the land behind him and saw the black fug of smoke that rose, oily and thick, a portent of what was to come. He turned his back to it and stared at the grey churning sea. In the awful quiet, unable to see the smoke and only water and...
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    Britons, Strike Home!
    Threadmarks: Intro

    In Ottawa, there is a grand if a little decrepit old building which could be mistaken for a Freemason's Lodge or a well-appointed hotel by a casual observer, or dismissed entirely by most others. Only those with a keen eye would notice that the pollution-stained coat of arms above the tall oaken...
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    The Excitement and The Turmoil

    John Strachey adjusted himself in his chair and tried to look relaxed, even though he was anything but. The BBC cameras glared at him dispassionately, and he tried not to think about the millions of people who would hear and more importantly see him speak. He had made radio broadcasts before, he...
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    AH Vignette: Return of The King

    Charles had tried to stay in his cabin, as the captain had advised. He had attempted to distract himself, by poring through the heaps of correspondence that had been heaved onto the ship before they had cast off. But he had bored of it quickly, and had been drawn out onto the deck, where he...
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    AH Vignette/Kaiserreich AAR: 'We Are A Long Way From Home'

    Extract from article '7 Historical Battles You've Never Heard Of' on Lapwing, 7th June 2016 (5) The Canadians And The French Nearly Went To War Over A Fight In The Rockies Before the Canadians actually declared war on the opponents of the Garner Administration in the Second American Civil War...
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    TLIAF: Many A Hero Untold
    Threadmarks: Title Card

    "You may sing of your soldiers and sailors so bold But there's many and many a hero untold Who sits at the wheel in the heat and the cold Day after day without sleeping" -Extract from Champion at Keeping Them Rolling Aren't you busy with other stuff right now? Well, yes. So how are you going...
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    Midwestern Melodrama

    It was only a short drive to the Governor's Residence at 101 East 27th St, but Matt couldn't help but be nervous. He was a friend of the Governor, but this kind of summoning for an audience felt painfully official. He was well aware of his department's shortcomings in apprehending John...
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    TLIAW: Shuffling A Deck, One Of Those With Junkers On the Back

    HWAT you know those decks they had in the war where they had junkers and heinkels and shit on them IS THIS A WAR ONE no WHAT IS IT THEN YOU USED JUNKERS its primarily interwar, but it covers that period from 1900 to 1945 when britain was either at war or was waiting for one SUCH A HACK...
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    Help with research: The 1930s War on Crime

    I've got an idea for a TL, based on the idea that J Edgar Hoover is dismissed early on in Roosevelt's Presidency, and the Kansas City Massacre never occurs either because it's butterflied away by Hoover's dismissal or just a matter of altered timings meaning the assassins arrive late and Nash...
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    TLIAW: The Kampferkrieg

    WARNING: THE FOLLOWING HAS SCENES OF VIOLENCE AND THIS IS A TIMELINE ABOUT NAZI TERRORISTS SO IT WILL NEVER MAKE PLEASANT READING. Stanley moved the crowd as quickly as he could without drawing attention. He was uncomfortably aware of the weight of the Webley under his left armpit, and how...
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    TLIAW: Standing In Seats, Fighting in the Streets

    American politics seems dull to the British. The moderate two party consensus, the genial attitude of their legislature, the good-natured tone of their campaigns. They seem grey, insipid and boring to a native of Britain's shores. But ask an American what they think of British politics, and if...
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    TLIAW: A Journey Upriver

    I'd only managed to get a flight to Guyana after weeks of vetting by various British, and then American security agencies. It had been frustrating, but inevitable. When I'd mooted my idea to the editor, he'd laughed. For a little longer than entirely necessary. Once he was done chortling and saw...
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    Keep Calm And Carry On: A Political Drama

    Anthony Eden's eyes studied the telegram again. So, the treaty had been signed. It was finally over. With a single signature, the Second World War and specifically Japan's role in it had been ended. He sighed, and looked heavenward. That might be over, but his tribulations had only just begun...
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    TLIAW: From the Fury of the Britons, Deliver Us

    TOO MANY VIGNETTES Well, I don't really know what I'm doing with my life right now do I. Still. Yup. And that makes me extra creative. So this is, what? Well, the TLIA-PERIOD OF TIME format is perfect for getting an idea out of me, an idea which has been swirling around my head...
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    TLIAW: Making Murder Sound Respectable

    'Right, I've got Chomp up, what does everyone want?' 'Um, a lamb biryani, please.' 'That already has rice, doesn't it?' 'Yeah, its mixed in.' 'Rightyho. Alice?' 'Er, what do they have?' 'Just come and look over my shoulder.' 'Okay. Ooh, I like the look of that.' 'Yup. You...
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    AH Vignette: Accident Is Fate Misnamed

    We watched the smoke trail into the sky, staining the last rays of sunshine a thousand shades of flame. The dead lay below that pall, untold thousands. We would have time to bury our dead. But now was the time to rejoice. We had won! The fate of all Europe had been decided today, whether the...
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    AH Vignette: 'There Are No Brakes On The Banter Train'

    The charcoal stick scraped across the grey concrete wall, completing the tally which he had been recording since he’d been locked in here. He counted the tally again, just to be sure. Yes, today was the day. He ground the stick into the wall until it was just black crumbs. He stared at the wall...
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    TLIAW: The Ass In The Bandbox

    'I tell you Dean, Bolingbroke is incorrigible,' exclaimed Robert Harley. 'How so?' replied Jonathan 'Dean' Swift. 'Oh it's the business with France. We criticise the Whigs for their failure to make peace, but we can't do anything! Our hands are tied. But we must have peace. Even if we have...
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    The Pea in the Pudding: A Tale of Christmas from ITNOK

    Whats this? A TLIAD. It doesn't say that. Then whats with the dialogue. I ask the questions. Do you really plan on writing a TLIAD on Christmas Day you antisocial git. Only a little bit. And its a tentative TLIAD, I doubt I'll finish it in 24 hours from typing this, and its tied...
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