Steampunk Stories

There is no night in the Everburning City. There can never be. ***** For four hundred years the Everburning City has withstood the advance of the life-strangling fog known as the Gloam. Its walls have held back five invasions, but on the eve of the sixth, the city's inhabitants know things have changed. Golems are coming out of the mist, and the bodies of the dead are rising at the Gloam's bidding. The city's last and most desperate line of defence comes in the form of the Crafters, individuals who can channel the power of fire, though they risk their sanity each time they do. The brightest of these valiant heroes are Tabitha a'Loria and her apprentice Gerald Reath. Risking their lives, they mount their airships, determined to save the last bastion of humanity - the Everburning City. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Diary - Day unknown - October 1847 - Silence. I see the world plunging into the Age Of Calamity... These are the words written by a young soldier, in a diary hidden behind a wardrobe of a hotel in the city of Bolasaeg. ⊰᯽⊱┈─╌♚ ♕ ♚╌─┈⊰᯽⊱ Once upon a time, in a world of steam engines... In the Capital City of a Realm in war crisis, a girl named Selenya, 16 years of age, a talented Alchemist's Apprentice and Inventor, is thrown into a race to escape a dangerous coup meant to bring down the Royal Family. Along with her 7 friends - the prince and his 6 illegitimate brothers - will embark on a journey that will put their courage and unity to the test, while uncovering a broken world, afflicted by war and a virulent plague ravaging all life... ⊰᯽⊱┈─╌♚ ♕ ♚╌─┈⊰᯽⊱ Cover made by me: @angiemeros ⊰᯽⊱┈─╌♚ ♕ ♚╌─┈⊰᯽⊱ 🥇 1st PLACE WINNER - BTS Universe Awards 🏆 CHAMPION - BTS Champion Awards Season 2 🥈 2nd PLACE WINNER - The Trivia Awards 2020 - 2021 🥈 2nd PLACE WINNER - Army Bomb Awards 2021 🥈 2nd PLACE WINNER - Orenda Awards 2021

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This is one heck of a Victorian-style fantasy novel. Add a spoonful of steam engines to make that darned technology tree come alive! Add a spoonful of love and hatred, so everyone has good reasons to brawl! Add a spoonful of madness to lighten up this gloomy world, and finally, add a spoonful of natural disasters to play the main boss... and so on! Phew, that's a lot! ... Year 931 in the Engerwick Calendar. The city I reside in has been hailed as the most advanced in the West. The main reasons? The world-shaking steam technology, emerging technologies, and the wellspring of chaos. Can't deny it, but the fact remains that people keep flocking here to live. This city always gives you a glimmer of hope, whether it's lies or illusions, but it's so close, within arm's reach, making you risk life and limb. A city of hallucinations. I am one of those dream-chasers.

In an Empire where steam engines power entire cities and aristocrats hide their faces behind golden masks, Lady Eleanor Vale is considered a woman of ill repute. Young men are constantly staying at her gloomy estate. Her loyal butler, Lucius, knows the most terrible secret about his mistress. Twenty years ago, she saved him as a dying child and gave him a home. Since then, he has devoted his entire life to her...

In a city where the steam network remembers your secrets, the revolution begins with a wrench. Thomas Li-Harrison is a mixed-heritage engineer fixing the pipes that keep Shanghai warm. When impossible readings start appearing in the network - and his body starts doing things he never learned - he discovers the infrastructure he's maintained for years is hiding something vast, watchful, and alive. Now every pipe whispers a question he can't ignore: who built this system, and what is it really for? ⚙️ THE INTERACTIVE EXPERIMENT: This is an iterative serial. Your comments and votes shape the plot and the romance in real-time. ⚡ JOIN THE RESISTANCE: Sign up for the Substack (link in bio) to get the secret Marco prequel story and vote on future chapters!

Born in disarray and shaped by confusion, Giles enters a world he barely understands. He must navigate both the world he once knew and the one he's been thrust into, searching for the answers he needs to survive. But as he moves between these fractured realities, darker forces begin to stir. Every step forward unravels another secret - and each one threatens to cost him everything he holds dear.

Months after the death of her Mimi and the full onset of Aurelia's regressive mind sickness, Kesi stands as Matriarch and ruler of the Beachwick. Though overworked and deprived of sleep, she leads with a clear will. Her people have accepted her. The Sisterhood moves with all the precision of one of her machines. And in the few quiet moments she can claim, she shares her life with the man she loves. But the work is not finished. Two of the four tasks laid upon her bloodline remain unfulfilled. Xara is still out there, bearing the power of the mask, and while Kesi has come to understand her own magic, it has begun to shift in unsettling ways. Each night brings less rest and more warning, her dreams poisoned by visions of a future she cannot yet prevent. The Sisterhood has survived by honoring its past. Now, under Kesi's rule, it must face what is still to come.

Notorious air pirate, Don Karnage, gets more than he bargains for when he kidnaps a ditzy foreign princess. Fun-loving cargo pilot, Baloo, and his adventurous young navigator, Kit, scramble to save her, but find themselves entangled in the sinister secrets of a lost civilization. This story is written as if it were a long-lost episode of Disney's TaleSpin, with the same tone, humor, characterizations, and wacky scenarios!

Salt, vinegar, everything sinister, a signal, a mad scientist and three marginals. That is all it takes to make villains. In a world shattered from the inside, where everyone seems to be under the control of the signal Tower and escape the reality, Berserk, Brat and Brute try to find their own way, dealing with their fights and their goals. Because a person is whole universe. Tw: childhood traumas, eating disorders, mutilation... (If you want to understand the lore go read The PowerPuff Girls, not really necessary, but can be useful) The characters don't belong to me, but to Craig McCracken neither the cover (IG: Racketballs). The world building is inspired from Little nightmares. I apologize in advance for the mistakes and grammatical errors. I'm not an English speaker.

In the height of the Great Crusade, the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet discovers a terrified girl drifting through a catastrophic Warp anomaly. She is Elizabeth-a displacement of reality itself, clutching a secret that could tear the Imperium apart before it is truly born. Taken under the wing of Horus Lupercal, she becomes the "Warmaster's Daughter," living at the heart of a brotherhood that will soon descend into madness. Gifted with the ability to see the fragile threads of probability, Elizabeth fights a desperate, invisible war against destiny. As she walks the line between her love for her father and the terrifying, apocalyptic future she witnesses in her visions, she realizes that every choice she makes only pulls the galaxy closer to the precipice. This is the story of a girl against the gods, a testament to the impossible future, and a final, melancholic hope for a galaxy lost to the dark.

In the floating city of Celestia, time is not an illusion-it is a brutal currency stolen from the veins of children. Ilaria is a thief living on borrowed time, surviving only because of the golden, ticking cogs hidden beneath her flesh. But when a heist into the royal vault goes wrong, she uncovers a horrifying state secret and ends up dragging the kingdom's deadliest hunter, Prince Caelen, into a lawless freefall. He was cursed to see everyone's death with a single touch, yet when he grabbed her, he saw nothing but a pitch-black void. Together, a ghost without a destiny and a prince bound by a dark crown must survive the bottomless skies or watch their world grind to a halt.😍

London survived the awakening. But the world did not survive the truth. After the catastrophic events beneath the capital, the existence of the Oberion Network can no longer remain hidden. Machines begin responding to signals no human fully understands. Entire districts flicker with impossible blue energy. Airships gather above Britannia's skies as war inches closer by the hour. Now branded a threat to the world, Edward Conroy and Evelyn are forced deeper into the shadows while the Edinburgh Empire prepares for open invasion. But something inside Evelyn is changing. She hears voices within the Oberion signal. Dreams that should not exist. Memories that were never hers. As governments collapse into paranoia and authoritarian control, Prime Minister Eleanor Edison struggles to preserve Britannia's democracy while Anthony Campbell uncovers terrifying secrets hidden beneath Whitehall itself. Meanwhile, Emperor Alder Vanheim moves his fleet toward London with one objective, Claim Oberion, Control the future, End humanity's freedom forever. The war for nations has begun. The war for consciousness comes next. Dieselpunk • Steampunk • Political Thriller • Sci-Fi Mystery Airships • Artificial Intelligence • War • Conspiracy • Philosophical Drama Book 2 of The Oberion Chronicles series. © 2026 Muhammad Amir. All Rights Reserved. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or establishments is purely coincidental. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission from the author. Humanity invented copyright because apparently stealing fictional airship wars from each other was becoming a concern.

To kill or to love, those are the options available at the ruthless academy for young Warlocks. And to love is often to die. She hates him, he doesn't know what he wants. These two ex-friends from rival gangs must join together after their cruel headmaster threatens them to. Either they bring peace or they will live to regret it.

Éléonore de Valicourt n'était pas faite pour la guerre. Éduquée pour les salons et les intrigues de cour, sa destinée a changé le jour où la Loi du Sang a réclamé son nom. Propulsée au front pour combattre les démons de la Faille, elle se retrouve sous les ordres d'un homme qui la méprise autant qu'elle le déteste. Mais la survie a ses propres règles - et la ligne entre la haine et... autre chose est plus mince qu'une lame. Quand l'ennemi le plus dangereux n'est pas celui qu'on affronte, mais celui dont on ne peut plus se passer - que reste-t-il à sacrifier ?

From the minute he was abandoned as a child by his parents, Edwin's path was a dark one. Yet, this life became his greatest regret, and he finally wanted to leave it behind. Choosing to save lives instead of taking them, Edwin is hired by the royal palace. What starts as guard duty quickly spirals out of control, and Edwin suddenly lands the job of the princess's personal bodyguard. The job is already difficult with a terror group targeting her. Add a headstrong princess who shares Edwin's knack for trouble, and you get a dangerous mix. Edwin is dragged into a journey with danger at every corner. A plot to incite war, a vie for power, and remnants of Edwin's past are uncovered. Allies turn into enemies, enemies into allies, and the fate of millions hangs in the balance. Being the princess' bodyguard is far more than Edwin bargained for. Will the former assassin be able to handle such a task? 'To think that not only would the princess be attacked on my first day, but I would be arrested for saving her: what!!!!!?'

"The honour of work is a truth no one can deprive you of!" Grown up in a world ruled by overlords, dearth and recession, Ciarán Kane knew exactly what kind of advice he wanted to give his sons. One last gift to take along, as he consigned them to a better fate. Years went on alongside his vagrant life as a pedlary blacksmith, driven by the desire to change his family's life for the better. But reassuring security for his children and their future warrants change, a change that will ultimately affect everything he ever cared about ...

Robin Prakash, a magic doctor from the land of Kingsbury, is invited by his older brother to visit him in the land of the Great Plains. Landing him on the steps of an old farmhouse on the outskirts of a small rural town, known only by the overly cheerful locals as "Sunshine Acres". Quickly running low on funds from his search, Robin agrees to become a cook and cleaner for the recluse sorceress, her sassy apprentice, and their shapeshifting pet, who call "Sunshine Acres" their home. However, when his brother finally arrives in town, he comes with a hidden motive: to steal the sorceress's broken heart stone, a large piece of which she has already gifted to Robin. After being betrayed by his brother for power, Robin must team up with new friends to free the sorceress he has fallen in love with and fight for the new life he has found true joy in. ------------------------------- "I'm looking for a sorceress." "HA!" The old woman laughed, eyes gleaming with amusement. "Might as well admit you're lookin' for trouble, boy." . Cover Character Illustrations by @minoruru on Insta/Tumblr ❤️

When a cursed bangle binds Sea Drifter Ninnette to a dangerous demon, she only has three days to break the curse before it claims her life. °:•.🪸.•:° Ninnette is a Sea Drifter with the power to command water, dredging shipwrecks, and salvaging lost treasure. When she braves a sunken ship no one else dares to dive, she finds a strange clockwork bangle that binds her to an ancient curse and to the infuriating Kazi, a demon who leaves destruction wherever he goes. The moment the bangle is activated, they are hunted by a secret order led by a relentless Priestess who believes the armlet is a key to something far greater than treasure. But the true danger isn't the order. It isn't the demon Kazi. It's the curse. When Ninnette puts on the bangle, a countdown begins. If she doesn't break the curse in three days, she will die like every wearer before her. °:•.🪸.•:° She commands the sea. He is a demon who has lived for centuries. They are both bound by a curse. Only three days to survive. °:•.🪸.•:° Set in a Maritime Steampunk world, and inspired by Filipino cultures, from Spanish influence to the seafaring Sama-Bajau. This story weaves dangerous magic, high stakes, and heart-aching romance. °:•.🪸.•:° ONC 2025 Honorable Mention Round 1 Winner Round 2 Ambassador Pick Round 3 Ambassador Pick °:•.🪸.•:° Romantasy High Fantasy Fantasy Adventure SciFi Steampunk Fantasci Young Adult

You left home seeking adventure. Now you lie battered and bruised before a deadly opponent. Spared a gristly fate, and now in their debt, the stranger leads you deeper into this unknown land. A new chapter in your story begins. Can you trust the stranger? And where will your choices lead? --- Continues in The Archives of Nylas: Vol. 2 https://www.wattpad.com/story/398403270-the-archives-of-nylas-vol-2 ------------------------ Here on Wattpad, the chapters display choices that have already been made, but if you'd like to vote for what will happen in the latest chapters, be sure to visit the DunGen can cast your votes there. (https://bit.ly/RGDGAdventure)