Industrialfantasy Stories

✨ 2026 WATTY AWARDS ENTRANT ✨ 🏆 1st Place - Fantasy (Four-Leaved Clover Awards) 🏆 1st Place - Best Prologue & 2nd Place - Best Writing Style (2025) The sun is gone. Its light is sold. Beneath the earth, humanity survives on Lumen - the bottled radiance of a forgotten age. The ruling elite control it. The Church sanctifies it. The poor die without it. Lucy Farrow was born in the Gloom, where people disappear without explanation and hope is a dangerous thing. When a forbidden power awakens inside her, she becomes the most dangerous secret in Aurelion. The kind people kill for. The kind empires fall for. High above, Prince Cassian Soleyne discovers evidence that could unravel everything his family built. As rebellion spreads through the darkness, he finds himself drawn toward the one person he should never trust. A girl who could save their world. Or burn it to the ground. 🗝️ A dark, immersive steampunk fantasy filled with political intrigue, forbidden magic, and a slow-burn romance. Perfect for fans of Shadow and Bone and Arcane. 🗝️ [ COMPLETED ]

Beneath a sky of stolen sunlight, Kael fights to survive in a city built on rust, rot, and broken promises. But some flames refuse to die - even in the dark.

Emberfall has arrived early. As Aurelion prepares for another brutal winter, the city's leaders are forced to make impossible choices. Lumen grows scarce. Tensions rise. Behind every decision lies the same question: Who will carry the burden? In the Gloom, Lucy Farrow becomes a symbol of hope for the forgotten masses, drifting deeper into the web of the mysterious Lantern Man. In the Works, Prince Cassian Soleyne enters a world of soldiers, sacrifice, and war, where honor must be earned rather than inherited. While political factions scheme in the Halo, old faiths resurface and hidden enemies close in, the balance of power slowly begins to shift. Not with armies. Not with revolutions. But with the loyalty of ordinary people. A dark, immersive steampunk fantasy. Arc Two of the award-winning LUMEN series. Perfect for fans of Shadow and Bone and Arcane. [ ONGOING - NEW CHAPTERS COMING SOON ]

Five friends, five different personalities, and one choice that changes everything. Diana O'Reilly's "Last Camping Trip" was meant to be a simple escape from the noise of college life, but it turns into a nightmare they will never escape. ​After a mysterious deluge and a fatal leap from a cliff, they wake up in a world that exists on no map. Here, fairies are not delicate, the forest possesses a mind of its own, and every wound serves as a reminder that they do not belong. ​In this realm, labels like "athlete," "organizer," or "survival expert" mean nothing. There are only five people slowly losing their grip on reality, hurting each other, and struggling to stay alive. In the Unnamed Realm, every fragment of their friendship begins to shatter. How much of their humanity can they preserve before the darkness consumes them entirely?

Tagline: "In a world rebuilt from rust and ruin, even monsters can find something worth saving." Description: The world burned, and from its ashes rose machines. Steam replaced sunlight. Iron replaced dreams. And hope? It became a myth buried beneath the gears of survival. Tomura Shigaraki was a relic of the old world - the man who turned empires to dust and vanished before the smoke cleared. Years later, when he returns to a fractured land of steam engines and broken people, he finds something unexpected: life still breathing in the ruins. Dabi, a fire-born wanderer with scars that still burn, joins him - not out of loyalty, but out of defiance. Together, they navigate a world of brass and betrayal, building a fragile settlement in the shadow of the fallen Iron Halo. But peace in a world of ash comes at a price. When remnants of the old Authority rise again, Shigaraki and Dabi must face what they've tried to escape - their past, their guilt, and the undeniable pull between them. Because even in a world of smoke and decay, there are sparks that refuse to die.