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Sue Gilbert has spent most of her adult life performing: the good girlfriend, the good daughter, the woman who always smiles and never strays. But when her past crashes back into her life in the form of Emily Dickinson—the girl she thought she’d never see again—her carefully rehearsed world begins to unravel.
They promise to be just friends.
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Another college AU where Sue is a lonely math student who is drawn immediately to poems written by an anonymous author in the school's newspaper. She continues to follow the poems throughout the semester while she unwittingly begins to make friends in some of her classes; but as the poems grow more romantic in nature she can't shake the suspicion that they just might be about her...
A very very slow burn in a modern university setting
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How does Emily Dickinson react to not being allowed to see her only true love.
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- 1/1
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Second chances are granted only once. Hailee Steinfeld gets Emily Dickinson's memories a few months before "Dickinson" starts filming. What happens when her co-star Ella Hunt gets Sue's as well? Will they be able to live the life Emily and Sue never had? To make the most of a second chance?
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Life is simple for Sister Beatrice; she has her routine and her duties to the church and to her fellow sisters to keep her busy. Her past of never finding acceptance for who she loved was long left behind.
Until the bubbly Ava an owner of a local farm bursts into her world.
Chapter 17 for the beginning of Emily’s and Sue’s story
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Recently everything Sue says has been causing this flip in Emily’s stomach. She’s not sure how else to describe it. Something akin to suddenly realising you’re several hundred feet up in the air.
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Emily keeps bees, Sue teaches math, and they are in love. That's it, that's the whole plot.
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Austin, Emily, and Sue three people who are having to deal with the aftermath of the party. Sue has returned but nothing is the same. Time to be adults and talk it thru.
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- Part 2 of One-Shots
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What was supposed to be four days of pretending to be her best friend’s girlfriend turns into a weekend of unexpected confessions, buried feelings, and one undeniable truth: Sue Gilbert might be in deep trouble.
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The war in our houses, the war in our hearts by deadfromtheneckup
Fandoms: Dickinson (TV)
27 Apr 2025
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Emily has been in battle for years now, but now it's finally time to come home.
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Legacy is messy, so is coming back.
A quiet house. A familiar name. A world that’s moved on—without ever letting go. In a town thick with memory and invention, one woman reemerges to find herself both remembered and misunderstood. With sharp eyes and sharper words, she begins again—not to be known, but to live on her own terms.
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Sue is Emily's sister-in-law who is far too good for her brother in Emily's not-so-humble opinion. What happens when Sue catches Austin cheating and Emily is the first person she calls?
An Emisue fic inspired by Allie X's "Susie Save Your Love"
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Emily Dickinson is an accidental celebrity poet online.
Lockdown and COVID-19 Restrictions suit her tendencies well.
Living with her sister- in- law Sue, who she loves desperately, is a familiar beautiful pain.
Secret love letters become public. -
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On a rare day stolen from obligations, Emily and Sue slip away to the lake for a picnic, basking in the warmth of each other’s company. But love, as always, does not exist in a vacuum. When a hidden letter is found, their secret is suddenly at risk, and the world they’ve built between them trembles.
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Emily and Sue meet, and something unexplainable sparks between them—an instant connection that feels like fate. Everything seems perfect, but Sue’s life is already full, and desire clashes with reality. As their bond deepens, both must navigate secrets, longing, and the question : can a love this sudden survive the life that already exists ?
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Sue is Austin's girlfriend that Emily is supposed to be meeting at a party her brother is hosting. And they do meet. Up close and....personal.
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Emily and Sue have a one night stand that leads to things getting very messy.
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What happened to Sue?
Sue changed so much in the years following her marriage and the time we see her at the start of S2. This my vision of what happened to her that caused such a drastic change in her character and why she did the things that we saw her do throughout S2. This story is her experiences from the start of her marriage to the final scene of S2. -
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Every night, Emily woke up from strange nightmares and found the bed next to her empty. And Susan?
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"I Cannot Live With You": A Forbidden Love and Longing for Susan Gilbert by Oliver_Vincent
Fandoms: DICKINSON Emily - Works
30 Dec 2024
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An imagined historical narrative from Emily Dickinson who was born in the wrong time, denied the ability to express her love to her best friend Susan Gilbert. So she settles for sisters-in-law, watching the love of her life wed her brother and have his children. Emily lives on the same property as Susan but is separated by the path "just big enough for two who love" between their houses.
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- English
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- 655
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- 1/1
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- 7
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If I could ask Death one question right now, it would be this: what kind of drugs are you on? Because this is messed up, and I figure you’d have to be pretty messed up to even brainstorm it, let alone put it into practice.
But Death has been mysteriously quiet lately. I suppose he must be busy. Tight schedule, ending the world and all that.
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nothing in the world belongs to me (but my love, mine all mine) by inlittlestars
Fandoms: Dickinson (TV)
21 Oct 2024
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“You know I sleep better in your bed,” Emily murmurs, not looking up. This is, Sue knows, an outright lie. When Emily lies in her bed, she hums, her restless energy spreading through the sheets. She’s missed it the last few days. She misses it whenever Emily goes away for her various literature conferences and poetry panels. Sue always feels the space of her, left behind.
“So you’re sleeping here then,” she says, not a question because they both know the answer.
in which Emily asks questions she doesn’t necessarily want to know the answer to