Gildedage Stories

This is a chapter from a novel I'm working on called "Cultbreakers," wherein our heroine is tasked by the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans to find her way into an i...

1880s, New York. Élisabeth and Madeleine D'Amour are fresh to New York thanks to their railroad tycoon father. Élisabeth yearns to return to France because there is noth...

This is the story of two servants'shenanigans, and the tales they would hear behind closed doors.

In the heart of the Gilded Age, New York City suffers from a rift in humanity. On one end the giants of industry, the tycoons. On the other, the labor they utilize for t...

Lucia and Charley are the products of Old New York's ruling elite. Prestige. Wealth. Tradition. Scandal. No one is immune. Not Charley, reckless, blithe courtier of trou...

Touted as the safest, largest, most luxurious ship in the world, the Titanic is a beacon of hope on both sides of the Atlantic. The ship is the culmination of humanity's...

A god of time just got knocked down a peg. Cora is a billion year-old god that has devoted her existence into memorizing the timeline, and more importantly fixing it. Wh...

The Yellow-Eyed Demon has Sam in his crosshairs. Is a certain Greek goddess the solution or will she place everyone's lives in jeopardy? November 2006. Crossed Lines sto...

When a reclusive inventor meets the girl next door... With the fate of her disgraced family resting on her shoulders, Lady Christina Barclay has arrived in New York City...

An introductory second-person POV story featuring you, the protagonist, and an unassuming lady whose sordid past seems to be not that far behind her. I'd like to make t...

A queer retelling of the great gatsby, centered around the character of Jay Gatsby, but also featuring narration from Jordan, Nick, and a few other minor characters that...

He moved to Edenton looking to get away from the distractions of city life. He found just the opposite in Sullivan House. Sitting high atop a nearby mountainside, the...

© Laurel London, The 19th Century. 2023 This e-book is a compendium - giving you an understanding of the 19th century from a British perspective, and through the Western...

In this first book of a trilogy, William Durant and his sister Ella have spent most of their youth living abroad while their father invests in land and builds a railroad...

The White City is the exciting conclusion to The Untimely Journey of Veronica T. Boone! Molly has escaped the destruction of her small town of Laurentide, and she and V...

In an America embroiled in the all-encompassing inequities of the Gilded Age, with industrialists making their riches while the workers fight for their freedoms, a teena...

John Rockefeller x Andrew Carnegie x JP Morgan -- The one where capitalists are gay. Carnegie confronts Rockefeller's attack on his steel companies, and it turns into a...

Magic pulls you into its long-nailed clutch and doesn't let go. Jade Spade is a girl living in Brooklyn, New York. Her day turns upside down one summer night when being...

A short story about a rich society maiden during the Gilded Age who is jaded by her lavish lifestyle until she makes a decision that brings back the spark in her marriag...