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Title: Wichita Falls Author: Lydia Hunter Rating: All ages Word Count: 10,800 Characters: Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness Setting / Era: Wichita Falls, 1979 A more recent historical event for a change. This is excellent (barring only the rather weird rendering of Rose’s dialogue, but that’s a minor irritant in a good story).

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Title: The Battle of Songhu Author: azn_jack_fiend Rating: Teen Word Count: 5070 Characters: Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness Setting / Era: Shanghai, 1937 A really interesting AU in which the events of The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances take place in Shanghai during the opening phase of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Nicely done, [...]

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Title: My Kind of Time Author: aces Rating: PG Word Count: 5062 Characters: Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness Setting / Era: Chicago, 1925 The Doctor, Jack and Rose track down a time agent in the 1920s and have fun. It’s a great short fic with the relationship between the trio captured perfectly, it doesn’t [...]

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Title: Old Boys Author: JJPOR Rating: Teen Word Count: 4806 Characters: Jack Harkness, Douglas Caldwell Setting / Era: 1940s A melancholic short story, that’s best if you know something about retro Torchwood, whether through the TV epsiode, or better still, JJPOR’s other stories in this series. Jack and Douglas reflect on their colleagues, the course [...]

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Title: Ten Times The Doctor (Almost) Got Hitched Author: vvj5 Rating: All Ages Word Count: 5549 Characters: First Doctor, Second Doctor, Polly Wright, Ben Jackson, Third Doctor, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Liz Shaw, Fourth Doctor, Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane Smith, Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka, Turlough, Sixth Doctor, Evelyn Smythe, Seventh Doctor, Bernice Summerfield, Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard, [...]

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Title: A Jack of All Troubles Author: Clarissa Rating: All Ages Word Count: 2809 Characters: Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness Setting / Era: Whitechapel, 1880s While Nine takes Rose on a tour of her city’s past, Jack gets into trouble (in a really bad case of mistaken identity). There are a couple Americanisms (gottens [...]

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Two stories that have one thing in common – a pre-audios Charley. And given that Charley was born on the day the Titanic sank, that makes them historicals by default. Both are excellent character pieces, one short and sweet, the other much deeper. * Title: Crazy Paving Author: Ligia Elena Rating: All Ages Word Count: [...]

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Title: 1996 Author: Bad_Dickens Rating: All Ages Word Count: 1332 Characters: Jack Harkness, Jackie Tyler, Rose Tyler Setting / Era: The Powell Estate, 1990s. Maybe this shouldn’t count, but it is presented in the spirit of a historical, so… It’s a good fic, too, which always sways the argument.

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Title: The Winter of Our Discontent Part One; Part Two and Part Three a; Part Three b. Author: lareinenoire and rosamund Rating: Teen Word Count: 11,202 (including footnotes) Characters: Tenth Doctor, Jack Harkness Setting / Era: 1460s, Wars of the Roses, Margaret of Anjou I’ve not finished all of this yet, but what I’ve read [...]

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Title: 1896 Author: Bad_Dickens Rating: PG Word Count: 3622 Characters: Jack Harkness, Torchwood Setting / Era: Ellis Island, 1893, London 1894, Reading Gaol 1896 (& Paris 1900), Oscar Wilde. Do you need to say anything more than the above for a story that has Jack and Oscar Wilde in it?

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