From Reno, With Love

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Series Begun:
2023-02-08
Series Updated:
2025-06-30
Description:

The Reno Cure is set in the summer of 1959, when classics professor Stede Bonnet resigns his position at the University of Chicago, and leaves his wife for only place in the United States where you can get a no-fault divorce: the deserts of Nevada. He’s booked at a so-called Divorce Ranch just outside of Reno, where he’ll spend the requisite six weeks establishing residency, where he meets Ed Teach, who introduces him to the underground gay nightlife scene that is still recovering from the brutal vice raids of the McCarthy era.

From Reno, With Love is an open-ended series that continues Ed and Stede's stories for the next four decades, as they build a life together with their family and friends. See Series Notes for a chronological order.

Notes:

These can really be read in any order, although I highly recommend starting with The Reno Cure. But since some people have asked for a timeline:

 

Chronological timeline of From Reno, With Love:

 

1942: a fifteen-year-old Ed waits in a Reno hospital for news of his mother with his new stepfather Herb (900 words)

1945: Izzy Hands follows his heart to Reno and finds a new home (1,600 words)

1957: Lucius and Black Pete's meet-cute (1,900 words)

The Reno Cure, 1959: The big shebang itself! (86,00 words)

1959: Ed and Stede start settling into their new home (1,000 words)

The Reno Cure: Family's Family, 1962:Ed's half-brother Walt travels to California for a bit of a family reunion (4,800 words)

The Reno Cure: Summer in the City, 1969: Stede's trip to visit Lucius in Manhattan is livelier than expected (3,700 words)

1970: Ed and Stede visit New Zealand (1,800 words)

1972: Stede gets ready for work (600 words)

1972: After a long day at work, Ed surprises Stede (1,600 words)

1981: Ed's neice Sheila, a college student, comes over for dinner and upends the status quo (2,200 words)

The Reno Cure: Nice Day For A..., 1986: When Ed's neice Sheila has a crisis on the morning of her wedding, Stede steps up (2,800 words)

1994:Ed and Stede spend a lazy day in the park

Stats:
Words:
109,878
Works:
6
Complete:
No
Bookmarks:
24

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