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  1. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Fascist subversion

    November 30, 1942 New York City, New York POV: Mario Bellini, OVRA Operative – Codename "Tridente" The man in the chair had once been a soldier in the Genovese crime family. Now, he was little more than a heap of broken flesh—his body a grotesque mosaic of bruises, gashes, and burns. Some...

  2. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Mini announcement

    Hi guys I know I promised you all more chapters, but I just came down with a fever and stomach problems I'll wait until around next week ish, apologies.

  3. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Kill like an Egyptian

    November 27, 1942 Paris, 16ᵉ arrondissement Kingdom of France The rain was gentle that morning, tapping like nervous fingers against the windows of the study. Outside, the skeletal trees lining the boulevard bore the weight of another grey November. Inside, I sat with baby Sofie on my lap, her...

  4. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Announcement

    Hey sluts, good news The rewrite is done, from chapter one up until the french Mediterranean, that's what I covered Also I retconned a few things in the Salve Africa chapter I'll try to drop a mini omake chapter today, then back to schedule in two days, I'm busy tomorrow The rewrite...

  5. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: The Argentine and the fasces

    Excerpt from former President Che Guevara's 1988 novel The Motorcycle Diaries The Andes, 1952 Bear Huancarama, Apurímac, Peru The cold in the Peruvian highlands did not descend upon you with the fury of a storm or the violence of a winter gale. No—it moved with patience and cunning, seeping...

  6. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)

    I'm like 75-80 percent done 3-4 more chapters Writing is easy, the hard part will be reuploading the first 25 ish chapters

  7. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Omake: Constantine Bateman

    An excerpt from Leni Riefenstahl's 1943 propaganda epic, A Glimpse into the Emperor. Scene opens with a slow tracking shot through the high-vaulted corridors of the Palazzo Venezia. Mahogany doors. Gold filigree. Corinthian columns. Gregorian chants and classical piano playing in the...

  8. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Side story: Happy ending

    Excerpt from Walter Cronkite's 1961 Interview with Anne Frank CEO of Frank Security—the Rome Pact's first private military company—and author of the 1959 novel Diary of a Young Girl The wind whispers through the trees surrounding a secluded, sun-dappled villa nestled in one of Haifa's most...

  9. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Mini-annnouncement

    So, I've been rereading the first several chapters in the story up until Mussolini fully goes cracked and I realize I hate it. His fall to madness is too sudden. That and part of me wants to compete for a turtledove award over on alt hist where this story is published too, I doubt I'll get it...

  10. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Butchering the butcher

    November 23, 1942 The Old City of Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine Anne stood in the shadowed corner of the dimly lit room, watching with cold detachment as the OVRA agent her Lehi cell was assigned to assist knelt beside the captured British officer, tending—if one could call it that—to the...

  11. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)

    Fixed It's 1987 now

  12. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Nuclear blackmail

    November 23, 1942 Paris, 16ᵉ arrondissement Kingdom of France The chandelier above me swayed gently—just enough to remind me of the ceiling fan in Kigali, that slow, hypnotic circle that used to lull me to sleep during those stifling, insect-haunted nights. I had loved Rwanda. Not for its...

  13. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Invitation for a rendevouz

    November 20, 1942 Cairo, Cairo Governorate Kingdom of Egypt POV: Giuseppe Manzini, OVRA Operative — Codename: "Falcone" The late afternoon sun bathed the dusty streets of Cairo in hues of amber and ochre, casting long shadows across the narrow alleyways of this modest, middle-class neighborhood...

  14. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Schoolhouse hell

    November 17, 1942 Al-Baha City, Al-Baha Province Kingdom of Yemen The desert night was still, wrapped in a curtain of cool silence that descended after another day of blood and thunder. The stars shimmered above the ragged hills like pale wounds in the dark, distant and cold, offering no...

  15. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: The eagle and the caliph

    November 16, 1942 A little house in the 16th Arrondissement Paris – Kingdom of France I sat alone in a dainty little townhouse, tucked away in the hushed catacombs of the 16th arrondissement, a bourgeois sarcophagus of quiet wealth and dying empires. The place smelled faintly of Chanel No. 5...

  16. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)

    There's a reason I stopped at 1950 A part 2 will come later, it will show the full cultural and cinematic revolution in Italy

  17. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Here's some delicious propaganda

    An excerpt from Leni Refinsthall's wikipedia page: Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most controversial figures in 20th-century cinema—an artist whose aesthetic brilliance and technical innovation left an indelible mark on filmmaking, yet whose name remains inextricably linked to the propaganda...

  18. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: The city that never sleeps

    November 9, 1942 New York City, New York POV: Mario Bellini, OVRA Operative – Codename "Tridente" The cold wind howled off the Hudson, biting through his overcoat and cutting down to the bone. New York in November had a way of being cruel even to those born in the fogs of Genoa or the rains of...

  19. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: The abyss that infects the soul

    Outside Famagusta, British Cyprus – November 5, 1942 POV: Enzo Ricci, OVRA Operative – Codename "Gladius" Enzo Ricci sat alone on a cracked stone wall perched above the barren, wind-scoured hills outside Famagusta. His carbine lay across his lap, glinting dully in the fading Mediterranean sun...

  20. Taking a Duce (A Benito Mussolini SI)
    Threadmarks: Only the tears can calm the burning rage in my heart

    November 3, 1942 Old Haifa Haifa, British-Occupied Palestine Anne Frank took the proffered cigarette from Rudy, a Croatian Jew who had recently been attached to their unit. The paper was cheap, the tobacco stale, but it didn't matter. It was a BH—her father's brand. She lit it with a shaky...
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