Fan Fiction: Stories 71–76

The poet-knight whose obsession with Mary Stuart will cost him his life spends his final night doing the only thing he knows how to do: writing.

One of the women imprisoned alongside Mary Stuart at Lochleven Castle has her own stake in the escape everyone remembers as entirely the queen's doing.

Behind the family's fearsome reputation, Lucrezia Borgia tends an actual garden, and thinks about what her name will mean after she's gone.

A servant trained in the household's less official duties has to reckon with exactly what he's been asked to become.

Decades after Loudun, the convent's Mother Superior finally writes down what she actually remembers, separate from what she was told to perform.

An ordinary tradesman watches his town consume itself over a case everyone privately suspects is nonsense and no one dares say so aloud.