As the Gears Turn
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  • Reads 636
  • Votes 37
  • Parts 21
  • Time 1h 24m
Ongoing, First published Jun 17, 2017
The following text is several journal entries written by a scientist living in the middle of a fictional Steampunk war between England and France in the mid-19th century. He retells of the traumatic events in which robots with soulless sockets for eyes begin taking over the streets, and how he fears that the French government has somehow stolen his own designs to create machines of mass destruction. He also tells of how he fears for his life and the lives of all of London.
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