Characters appearing in multiple stories or storylines now have their own index pages – scroll to the bottom of this list to find them.
Story Title | Metro Station | Genre | Warnings | |
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Javert’s Mercy | Victor Hugo | Fantasy – historical – authors and characters | Suicide | |
Sempre Camellia | Alexandre Dumas | Fantasy – historical – authors and characters | Menstruation metaphors | |
Welcome to Mount Parnassus! | Montparnasse-Bienvenüe | Humour – Mythology | Greek Gods, Maenads | |
The Girl, the Gold and the Goblins | Les Gobelins | Fairy tale | Blood, feminism | |
The Garden Door | Porte d’Auteuil | Portal fantasy | Apples | |
Collaborations | Pasteur | Fantasy – historical – scientists | Typhoid, child death | |
Saint Denis and the Basil | Basilique de Saint Denis | Saint story | Miracles, dubious theology | |
Clemençeau in the Underworld | Champs-Elysées Clemençeau | Fantasy – historical – World War 1 | Ghosts | |
The Curious Case of the Queen’s Crater | Châtelet | Fantasy – historical – scientists | Physics | |
The Hair Loom | Porte de Bagnolet | Portal fantasy | Lancelot | |
The Un-Drowned Princess | Château d’Eau | Fairy tale | Drowned cities, feminism | |
Most High, Most Potent, and Most Excellent Prince | Couronnes | Humour – historical | Civil war, revolution, human resources | |
The Right to Mount the Scaffold | Bastille | Poetry | Capital punishment | |
Best Served Cold | Glacière | Fantasy – ghost story – romance | Vengeful ghosts, possession | |
Music of the Spheres | Pont de l’Alma | Fantasy – living objects | Collective bargaining | |
The Blind Girl of Castel Cuillè: A Choose-your-own-adventure Poem | Jasmin | Fairy tale – choose your own adventure – poetry | Murder, suicide, general melodrama, 19th century ideas about disability | |
Between the Seams | Porte Maillot | Portal fantasy | Grim fairy tales | |
Worth More than Silver | Argentine | Fairy tale | Bad parenting, feminism | |
The Judgment of (Elaine of) Paris | Porte Dorée | Portal fantasy | Greek Gods | |
Half Life | Pierre et Marie Curie | Fantasy – historical – scientists | Grief | |
Alice’s Adventures in Revolution | Robespierre | Humour – Pastiche | French Revolution | |
Death and the Widow | Pére Lachaise | Fantasy – dark | Death, assassination, ethics | |
Léon Gambetta and the Battle of the Métro | Gambetta | Fantasy – historical – World War 1 | The Sound of Music | |
The Frog Girl | La Muette | Fairy tale | Love, feminism | |
Fear Not | Bonne Nouvelle | Saint story | Angels, dubious theology | |
Marionette | Porte de Pantin | Portal fantasy – Christmas – horror | Christmas, child death | |
Good Council | Mairie des Lilas | Fantasy – urban – humour | Child in peril, untidy gardens | |
Ella/Cinders | Buttes Chaumont | Fairy tale | Going on quests in unsuitable footwear | |
The Little Fox | Les Sablons | Fantasy – Pastiche | Chicken death | |
Home to Roost | Mairie d’Issy | Fantasy – urban – humour | Possible rooster death | |
The Last Wish | Boissière | Fairy tale | Blood pudding, revolution, feminism | |
Olifant | Mairie de Saint-Ouen | Fantasy – urban – humour | Unicorn poaching, bad opera jokes | |
Pantin in Paris | Pantin | Fantasy – urban | Museums, evil puppets | |
The Lion, the Witch, and the Railway | Gare de Lyon | Fantasy – urban – fairy tale | Lions in the metro | |
Dragon’s Venom | Saint-Michel | Fantasy – alternate history – scientists | Epidemics, child death (historical), rat death | |
Still Waking | Ternes | Fantasy – fairy tale – romance – humour | Infertility, attempted rape, prince death, feminism | |
Mortal Clay | Falguière | Fantasy – historical – sculptors | Opera, deals with the devil, bromance | |
Grave Concerns | Mairie de Montrouge | Fantasy – urban – humour | Ghosts, ballet, ill-advised relationships | |
The Trowel and the Thistle: Two Lost Tales of Sir Gareth Beaumains | Chardon Lagache | Fantasy – Arthurian – humour | Threat of incest, vegetable cannibalism, fairy tale motifs getting completely out of hand | |
Madeline Grows Up | Madeleine | Poetry – picture book | Career advice, feminism, revolution | |
For Whom the Bells Toll | Strasbourg–Saint-Denis | Fantasy – fairy tale – romance – saint story | The bells! The bells! Also, treacherous statues, feminism, dubious theology | |
Occupational Hazard | Mairie de Clichy | Fantasy – urban – romance | World War II, prequel | |
Introduced Species | Jussieu | Science fiction – historical – scientists | Alien invasions, tragic misunderstandings, scientific inaccuracies. | |
The Fisherwoman and the Golden Ring | Poissonnière | Fantasy – fairy tale | Fish, princes and their well-intentioned sisters, feminism |
The following characters appear in multiple stories, and thus have their own story index pages.