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Best Short Peaky Blinders Fanfics

Peaky Blinders novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.

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Top 18 Short Peaky Blinders Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Peaky Blinders fics — 10,000–50,000 words.

1

The Mistress of Death Comes to Small Heath

by Jellybean626

After defeating Voldemort, Harriet Dahlia Potter follows a pull to the Chamber of the Veil where Death promises her the life she has never allowed herself to speak hope to. Family, love, friendship, freedom. No longer the Girl Who Lived, Dahlia moves to Small Heath as WWI is winding down and meets a

576 kudos 29,149 words 7/? chapters Mature
2

THIEF

by nosferotic

After a robbery at the betting shop, Tommy Shelby sets himself to find and punish whoever could dare to fuck with the Peaky Blinders. Only to be faced with his first real opponent, a young woman with nothing to lose and a temper to challenge Arthur’s.

447 kudos 44,684 words 20/? chapters Explicit
3

Ashes and Embers | Peaky Blinders | Tommy x Fem Character | Season One

by NaenyaTargoose

A Peaky Blinders Story1919. The war is over-but some battles never end.Catherine Guthrie arrives in Birmingham with nothing but a battered suitcase and the ghosts of men she couldn't save. A former field nurse from Bristol, she's traded blood-soaked bandages for smoke-stained streets, desperate to l

234 kudos 24,993 words 13/? chapters Mature
4

The Storyteller of Small Heath

by DoctorGemini

"Where did that crusty old winged freak send me off to?!" If someone went up to Sarah and told her that a weeping angel would take her from her home in 2026 and drop her not only in the 1920s but in the Peaky Blinders 1920s, she would have asked which episode and season of Doctor Who that came from

197 kudos 34,001 words 8/9 chapters Explicit
5

The Devil's Boy

by Anonymous

A moment later, Tommy hears footsteps and— A boy appears. He must only be in his early 20s. The first thing Tommy notices is his hair. Thick, dark curls, pinned back a little, although some stubborn locks are flying free.  He’s dressed in a dark shirt, the material cut to fit his slim frame. A silve

129 kudos 48,460 words 18/? chapters Explicit
6

Modern Day Tommy and Grace

by Garrisonwriter

This is a modern day Tommy and Grace love story. I hope you love it!

92 kudos 47,291 words 23/24 chapters Not Rated
7

In the Bleak Midwinter

by AmberTheFantasy

When Maria Belrose returned from France and rekindled her relationship with her old partner, she didn't expect for it to end with her stumbling into the arms of the Peaky Blinders. But she couldn't say she hated the results.

84 kudos 13,573 words 9/? chapters Mature
8

Cruel world

by Funnygirl00

"Love is a curse and death is a mercy because the world is cruel."When Katherine fell in love with the man who rescued her from an abusive marriage, she felt like the entire world was hers. Everything was possible, happiness and love with a wonderful man. Then one night, she held his body as he bled

79 kudos 39,267 words 19/? chapters Mature
9

A Shot in the Dark (Book 1)

by Anonymousewrites

Found Family! Peaky Blinders and Teen! Reader (Y/N) (L/N) left France to leave behind all that they had lost. However, Birmingham is its own place of battle. The Shelby Family might patrol the streets, but that doesn't mean that other forces aren't brewing, from the IRA to other gangs. All the same,

61 kudos 27,332 words 11/11 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
10

Ready

by Emphysematous

Tommy and Alfie are finally fucking. Well... Tommy's fucking Alfie. They haven't got round to doing it the other way yet. Tommy hasn't been ready. Until now.

59 kudos 14,970 words 7/7 chapters Explicit Complete
11

The Hours After

by RavenAurelieChoiseau

A business meeting. London nearly asleep. The bakery warm from the ovens below.Tommy Shelby stays longer than he should.Alfie Solomons notices everything and says almost none of it. Two dangerous men and the specific exhaustion of carrying things too long alone.Nothing happens.Everything happens.

45 kudos 11,039 words 3/4 chapters Mature
12

I Stayed Where You Didn’t Look

by velvetgraveyard

Eric Langley loved Thomas Shelby in the quiet ways—the ones that never interrupt, never demand, never ask to be chosen. He stayed through everything: childhood, war, silence, and the slow realization that he would never be the person Thomas turned toward. And still—he stayed. Until the night a bulle

37 kudos 17,429 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
13

คุ้มดีคุ้มร้าย

by murdy2515

อัลฟี่ตั้งครรภ์ได้ห้าเดือน เป็นช่วงเวลาที่อารมณ์แปรปรวนราวกับพายุทอร์นาโด จนเผลอแสดงท่าทีแข็งกระด้างและไร้การยับยั้งชั่งใจ ทั้งหมดไม่ใช่ตัวตนที่แท้จริง หากเป็นผลจากการเปลี่ยนแปลงของร่างกายและฮอร์โมน โธมัสจำเป็นต้องทำความเข้าใจว่า สิ่งเหล่านี้คือผลข้างเคียงของการตั้งครรภ์ ทั้งทางอารมณ์ ทางร่างกาย และ

5 kudos 10,323 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
14

Because It Would Work

by Litlion

--- Story starts after Book 4, Goblet of Fire --- Everyone believes they know what Lord Voldemort is. Thomas Shelby doesn’t. After Voldemort’s return, Tommy begins investigating the one mystery no one else questions. The deeper he digs, the more he realizes that understanding Voldemort may prove far

5 kudos 37,219 words 8/? chapters Mature
15

พันธะแห่งชะตาลิขิต

by murdy2515

โธมัสไม่เคยคิดเรื่องมีลูก แต่พอถึงช่วงหนึ่งของอายุ เขาอยากได้สิ่งที่ขาดหายไป เพื่อมาเติมเต็มชีวิตของเขาให้ครบถ้วน

4 kudos 10,153 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
16

Chrome and candlelight season 2: The Quiet War

by kylejames182

Thomas Teller is bleeding inside Mercy General. Judy Alvarez and Tara Knowles-Teller are fighting to keep him alive. Claire Russell refuses to leave his side. Valerie Teller Silverhand has to hold the house together while the shooter is still somewhere inside the hospital walls.Chibs is dead. Rita W

4 kudos 18,499 words 3/? chapters Mature
17

Bang Bang, Tommy

by Inkandroses07

"Bang bang, Tommy."Elijah Sterling was Thomas Shelby's first love, his oldest friend, and the one person who knew every version of him before the world turned him into a Shelby.Then Elijah comes back dying.Instead of asking for help, he decides to make Thomas hate him.Threats. Blood. Kidnappings. As

4 kudos 35,699 words 1/1 chapters Not Rated Complete
18

真北 True North

by wendyyyyyhui

两年前,他们的关系始于联姻的传统合约,结于追随真正的自己。 现在,他们的关系又该何去何从? Tommy又会不会让你再次离开?

0 kudos 14,347 words 9/? chapters General Audiences

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This list of 18short Peaky Blinders fanfics spans 478,428 total words. Kudos range from 4 on the newest entries to 576 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Mature (8 of 18 fics).

Recurring tags across this list: Slow Burn · Angst · Hurt/Comfort · Romance · Violence.

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