As a young girl, Marianne Hartfield loses her father to a hunting accident and grows up with surrogate parents: her uncle, who carries a heavy secret, and her governess, who has a sad history of her own. Unable to inherit her father's estate, which descends instead to her younger brother, Marianne develops a will and purpose of her own as she comes of age.

We are reunited with some characters from Charles Dickens' OLIVER TWIST in later life.

Perception on the brink of death can be hard to bear. Or it can be a blessing. (Sydney Carton in "A Tale of Two Cities")

[Nicholas Nickleby] Nicholas contemplates leaving Dotheboys Hall. Gen fic. Introspective. Smike mentioned.

The night before Charles' impending execution, Sydney comes into his prison cell. Charles has an important request to make of Sydney.

A group of English students argue over who was most responsible for Sydney Carton's death... in song form! To the tune of "Gee, Officer Krupke" from West Side Story.

Some people just want to watch the world burn, and Madame Defarge is one of them. Set in between Darnay's first and second trials in Paris. To the tune of "World Burn" from Mean Girls the musical.

Sometimes seemingly inexplicable situations have a perfectly logical cause - if you look far enough into the past.

Charles Dickens wrote a number of ghost stories for Christmas, not just his most successful, a Christmas Carol. My ghost story, set in Victorian London, is a homage to those stories. It contains only original characters and no bad language.

A fantasy set in London, a latter-day Babylon, in 1826. An agent of Hell is sent to find out what is amiss with England at Christmas. It features Charles Dickens' characters: Scrooge, Jingle & Fagin. No bad language, no violence. BOOKS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, PICKWICK PAPERS, OLIVER TWIST

A short piece centred on Charles Dickens' Sam Weller and some original characters. No bad language, no violence. SAM WELLER PICKWICK PAPERS

A melodrama; contains some violence and adult themes. It concerns Nancy, Bill Sikes Fagin from Charles Dickens' work 'Oliver Twist'.

This is a short work that describes the meeting between Fagin and Bill Sikes. Characters display prejudices and attitudes of their era. Contains adult themes. No bad language. RE-RELEASE DUE TO SOME CORRECTIONS.

A horror sequel to A Tale of Two Cities for Halloween. A grown-up Jerry Cruncher Jr. becomes a literal "resurrection man" and brings Sydney Carton back to life. But he and the Darnays soon discover that resurrection isn't all it's cracked up to be.

A distant duet for Sydney & Lucie at the end of the story. To the tune of "I See the Light" from Tangled.

Sydney's confession to Lucie and what I made of it.

Dying is easy, living is harder. Charles Darnay goes home and finds that nothing is quite the same. (to the tune of "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from Les Miserables)

In their final moments, Sydney Carton and the seamstress find some comfort in each other. To the tune of "A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Miserables.

Carton shows up at Darnay and Luci's doorstep, drunk and in need of some help

a reimagination of Miss Havisham's life

A reimagining of Miss Havisham's life.

[Bleak House] A series of ficlets centering on Rosa and Watt. No chronological order. Bookverse, AU.

Little Lucie visits the wine shop of Madame Defarge to plead for the release of her father

What if there was a lost chapter in Tale of Two Cities, one that tied up a couple loose ends? This chapter takes place in Book Three, between chapters 12 and 13, and reveals Lucie's mother, and a scene between Lucie and Sydney, and Sydney and Monsieur Defarge.

Nicholas Nickleby tells his oldest children the story of his travels with Smike, how that friendship taught him gentleness and transformed his attitudes about disability. Or, how Micah became Smike, and Smike became Arden. Bildungsroman & magical realism. Dickensian. Rated T for survivor's guilt, ableism, implied/referenced violence, and canonical references to abuse and neglect.