bit·ter·sweet: being at once bitter and sweet; especially: pleasant but including or marked by elements of suffering or regret. A collection of short stories I've written since joining Wattpad for various contests, challenges, and publications. These works range from one hundred word drabbles to short stories up to ten thousand words. *Trigger Warnings* Gore, violence, self-harm, drug, and alcohol use.

Of Clouds And Bells;; A Victorian, Steam-punk, Political, Fantasy Adventure Within a world of clouds and bells, tempests and tides, four people must stand together or watch the Cities fall before them... Varsa, a girl forced against her will to spy and kill in order to save her own life. Senn, a stablehand forced into the largest political war Caelis has ever known. Poppen, a young nomad orphaned brutally and enslaved by the very people who killed his own. Edwin V, a constable pushed over the edge as killers become rampant in the streets of his home.

After the collapse of civilization from an enormous solar flare, Daniel Kissinger attempts to get by in a city constantly plagued with solar radiation. Under S.T.E.A.M.'s strict regime, families must meet a steam quota each month to ensure the maintenance of a protective cloud layer to block the sun's radiation. But when his father, the inventor of ground-breaking steam technologies, is murdered, Daniel decides he's had enough with the way things are. Evan Hamilton, dictator of the city, must be killed.