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]]

A storm god approaches and destiny follows with him. While the rest of medieval Karnassis is ushered into the industrial age by the outlanders of the Öd, the humble island of Dyma clings to the past. They prepare for a time honored tradition -- the arrival of the Silent Chorus, a divine tempest crafted by Zoreus, the great eidolon of storms. But little do its people know, more than a god is coming to their shores. Mylo has never wanted to leave his island. But with his sister gone and a bond to a demigod accidentally forced upon him, his love of Dyma will be tested, as well as his fear of the world. Verana is leaving Dyma behind to become a powerful summoner, with ambitions to defeat the king and rule all Karnassis in his place. But her brother's shadow still lingers on her, threatening to turn those ambitions to a darker purpose. And a cowardly outlander named Claude hides a devastating secret. And if revealed, it could spell destruction for all Karnassis. When these fates intertwine, events will be set in motion that will change the Etherea forevermore. Cover Art by Amrin A. Sloat

Y/n L/n, a street kid born of a dead father and an absent mother, left to fend for himself, being a street kid is not easy, especially with no fortune, he made friends of great value. And he had found himself family with Vander, Vi, Powder and the others. But with time passing, the tensions rising in the undercity, the balance of power is at the risk of changing for the worst. (Just know before we start, the main story will change drastically concerning Jinx/Powder. Most events of the story will not change, but many will be altered. You. Are. Warned.)

Knowledge is currency. Alchemy is knowledge. Most people don't know it exists. Those who do call it heresy. Those who practice it call it ascension. Man wakes in the lightless depths of Tauran City Prison with no records, no past-only a vocabulary that doesn't belong to him. In a facility built to process human bodies, ignorance is a death sentence. To survive, he bonds with a parasitic alchemical metal: a weapon that grows stronger with blood, memory, and use. But power always comes at a price he doesn't yet understand. Guided by a man who knows too much and a girl who should not have survived this long, he descends through a system where alchemy is graded, identities fracture, and nothing is free. You are not a prisoner. You are a specimen. And ascension has already begun.

Jareth Coppersmith and Pol Flynt have one thing in common. They kill for a living. One works for GAME, the powerful Guild of Airship Mechanics and Engineers and the other, for the Royal Spymaster. But what happens when they are unknowingly sent on the same secret mission? At best they are rivals, at worst, mortal enemies. SciFi / Thriller/ Steampunk/ LGBT

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

the smoking ruins of a restricted Piltover laboratory, Jinx finds more than just a Hextech anomaly-she finds a soulmate. When the pulsating, yellow-and-red containment pod of the Scream Symbiote shatters, it doesn't just bond with Jinx; it adores her. As the feminine, possessive entity weaves its hair-like tendrils into Jinx's signature blue braids, the two fractured beings find a lethal, unconditional devotion that neither Vi nor Silco could ever provide. Scream doesn't want to "fix" Jinx's madness-she wants to amplify it. While Vi and the Enforcers hunt the "blue monster" terrorizing the Undercity, and shadows of the symbiote's violent past cross through the rift to reclaim it, Jinx and Scream descend into a shared euphoria of anarchy. This is a story of trauma bonding, monstrous identity, and a romance so obsessive it threatens to level both Zaun and Piltover. Jinx doesn't need a savior. She has a sister-soul in the whispers, a lover in the shadows, and a symphony of chaos that is finally, beautifully, all her own.

After Violet's dad left, she lived with her mom alone. At school, all the kids thought she was weird because they all made such rumors that her dad left for an other man. Then suddenly, on her seventeenth birthday, something tragic happened. Her mom passed away in a car crash. Since her only guardian was her father, she was obligated to stay with him. With Violet's attitude, she refused over and over again. But her helpers had no other options. Even though it was hard for the young girl, she finally gave up and went with her dad. On her way to his house, her driver said that her father was found dead on his bed. With no more guardian to take care of Violet, that left her no other choice but to live with her old man's best friend, uncle Damian. He was rich. She had no hesitation in accepting the offer. But her pick was regretted way quickly. As soon as she discovers she will have to live with five other teenage boys the same age as her. There is tension in between her and every one of the boys. Charles, Nicholas, Liam, Caleb and James, Secrets hidden, stolen kisses, hearts tied, hormones all over the place. They all want her. But the question is, who will she chose?

SHADOW-CODED In a world powered by a dying sun, his touch is the ultimate blackout. For fifty years, the twelve floating Sun-Cities of Aethelgard have thrived on the Solar Pulse-a divine energy that grants the Elite power over heat and light. To the citizens of the smog-choked Iron Belt below, the Pulse is a god. To Kaelen Vance, it's a parasite. Kaelen was the Solaris Academy's greatest prodigy until he discovered the truth: the Pulse is failing, and the world is about to go dark. Exiled to the rotting sub-levels of the Grand Archive, Kaelen spends his days scavenging ancient tech-until he touches a forbidden data-shard and triggers the Thirteenth Signature. Now, Kaelen is branded with the mark of the Null, a legendary energy that doesn't create light, but consumes it. With the relentless Commander Jaxon and his mechanical Hounds at his heels, Kaelen must flee into the Hollows-a wasteland of eternal shadow where the Pulse has never reached. Guided by a mysterious Archivist with secrets of her own, he must find the Silent Crater to unlock the final code of the Thirteenth Founder. But the Null-Energy isn't just a weapon; it's a hunger. And as Kaelen drains the world around him to stay alive, he realizes that to save the planet, he might have to become the very monster the Sun-Cities fear most. The lights are going out. The void is calling. And Kaelen Vance is the only one who can see in the dark.

Tusk A majestic airship falls from the sky straight toward Tortuga's market. Inside a cage on deck is Tusk - a walrus, the captain's pride and joy. When the crash destroys his last tusk, the captain will do anything to fix it... even fly to London and hire the best prosthetist in the United Kingdom. A short, heartwarming fantasy story about loyalty, miracles, and new tusks. Originally written in Russian. Translated using AI tools (DeepL + editing) and manually checked. English is not my native language - feedback welcome!

"Begone. Gone. For divinity has dispersed. Now humanity's destiny is forged. We are all labeled APOSTATIC." God's a fucking joke. You learn that pretty quick living under a sky full of pipes. This planet never had fuel. No coal. No oil. Nothing worth burning. After that steam engines invention, the industrial revolution came, because some brilliant psycho discovered the human body produces more energy than any engine ever built. After that? Everything went to hell. Steam towers, pressure boilers, turbine halls, gearworks big enough to swallow city blocks. Pipes running through buildings like veins. Dynamos humming day and night. The rich call it progress. Yeah, no shit. Down here we call it processing. And it turns out - people are the fuel now. We burn REAL great.The government runs a nice polite system called Contribution. Families give something to keep the generators spinning - a limb, a kid, sometimes the whole damn household if their district falls behind quota. Do it long enough and they Promote you. That means they bolt you into a pressure rig and let the turbines chew your pulse into electricity. Meanwhile the rich bastards float above us in their clean little sky-city pretending the world isn't powered by screaming. Down here it's gangs, rust, meat grinders, cannibalism drugs and cult freaks chanting that the engines are holy punishment. Dumbasses. Name's Poppy Van Carter. That's what the records tell me. Mechanic. Smoker. I keep broken steam engines alive because if they stop, the whole rotten city drops out of the sky. Funny thing is... Apparently my body produces more power than any damn boiler they've got. Which means everyone suddenly wants me. Government. Cult. Even my half-sister Akira Steinhelm. And I just wanted to fix engines and smoke in peace. Instead I'm stuck in this rusted hellhole waiting to see how many nails do I have to drive into my neck to get out. Welcome to APOSTATIC, BITCH

In 2067, the perimeter of the world for Alex Marten Varela has shrunk to a hospital room and a plaster architecture that biology calls a body. Imprisoned by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Alex inhabits a reality where time does not flow, but explodes into fragments of code and fractal visions. While the Gray Surgeon works to format the last remnants of his soul, another force-the Negotiator-digs tunnels through memory to recover the twenty-one folders of a life not yet resigned to oblivion. Between the echoes of a lost Buenos Aires and the aseptic frequencies of the future, Alex embarks on a quantum odyssey to reassemble the mosaic of his existence. From the interrupted passion for Isabel to the silent dedication of his daughter Cassandra, every blink becomes a line of code, every memory a weapon against definitive erasure. It is not just the chronicle of a disease, but a descent into the depths of consciousness, where the art of FractalCore becomes the only language capable of forcing the lock of a biological prison.

Aurélis brille au-dessus des nuages toxiques. Nocteryn suffoque dans son ombre. Seris et Lya ont grandi ensemble dans la Basse-Cité, unies contre la misère et les fumées empoisonnées. Mais lorsque Seris est choisie pour intégrer l'élite magique d'Aurélis, elle voit une chance de changer le système de l'intérieur. Lya, elle, y voit une trahison. Quand une explosion sanglante embrase Nocteryn, la guerre éclate entre les deux cités. Seris devient enquêtrice pour le pouvoir. Lya rejoint la résistance. Chacune est persuadée de se battre pour la justice. Mais entre manipulations politiques, secrets d'État et amours interdits, leurs convictions vacillent et leur lien se fissure. Peut-on encore être sœurs quand on choisit des camps opposés ? Et jusqu'où est-on prêt à aller pour sauver celle qu'on aime... même d'elle-même ?

From the minute he was abandoned as a child by his parents, the path Edwin trod was a dark one. Yet, such a life was Edwin's greatest regret, and he finally wanted to leave it behind. Deciding to save lives rather than take them, Edwin is hired by the royal palace. What starts as guard duty spirals out of control, and somehow Edwin suddenly gets landed the job of being the princess's personal bodyguard. A job already difficult enough with a terror group targeting her life. And couple that with a headstrong princess who shares Edwin's knack for getting into trouble, you get a dangerous mix. Edwin is dragged along for 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 enemies, enemies turn allies, and the fate of millions hangs in the balance. Being the princess' bodyguard is a lot 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!!!!!?'

An Iredescent private detective and her family work together to stop a fairy and an energy manipulator from opening a portal to another world within the Iredescent multiverse. ________________ Killian Decuir is banished from planet Iredescent. His daughter, Mara Decuir, becomes a private detective in hopes of uncovering the true reason why her father killed her mother. After encountering the Glittered Inktraitor, Mara and her brother Drave are sent back to their home planet Dusaro. A tea dispute forces the ship to crash land on planet Monshalow. While searching for help, Mara is captured by a fairy named Ireyna Roseshimmer and taken to Killian, who is overjoyed to reunite with his daughter. Mara learns of her father's knowledge of alternate worlds at the same time Drave learns of the fairy's involvement with an energy manipulator. The Decuir siblings and Killian work together to stop Ireyna from a precarious endeavor. A bittersweet consequence results from a simple wish gone awry, though a father's love always remains, even in another universe.

The story continues with humanity as they face more challenges in the dangerous world of Magic and Gods. Unlike the native races, humanity cannot channel mana naturally and were viewed as inferiors because of it. But through sheer ingenuity, mankind have adapted it for technological use by crafting magi-tech devices that allow them to harness mana without ever casting a spell. This limitation paradoxically grants them a unique advantage to create weapons and technologies that rival and sometimes even surpass the might of demigods. However, there is still a very long road before true mastery can be claimed as mankind is far from reaching the pinnacle of magical understanding for higher levels of magic exist that render even their most advanced creations insignificant. In this world, there are beings whose power spans from continental devastation to planetary annihilation, capable of wiping out nations with a single strike. Beyond raw power, there are even Spiritual Lifeforms who can regenerate endlessly as long as their souls remain intact. Even more terrifying are the countless "hax" abilities that defy logic and science altogether spread throughout the higher civilizations of the New World. These include powers such as Soul Manipulation, Fate Manipulation, Reality Warping, Immortality, Time Manipulation, Intangibility, Death Manipulation, and even Existence Erasure itself. In comparison to these supernatural phenomena, humanity's magi-tech, though immensely superior to Modern Earth's technology, is still only scratching the surface of the vast and often incomprehensible potential of mana. From Demon Lords to Sea Monarchs, from True Dragons to the Old Gods, and even from Alien Invaders to Lovecraftian Horrors beyond the stars, humanity is tested endlessly both physically and mentally in this strange and unforgiving world. Can mankind as a whole overcome these dangers and guide a world filled with countless horrors toward peace?

"I got chucked into a world where being buck-naked is a literal felony!" Toma Houku was just an average unemployed guy-until a bizarre phone interview landed him in another world. No armor, no weapons... just a T-shirt with a blonde girl printed on it. Then the girl jumped out of the shirt. She introduced herself as a goddess and immediately recruited Toma as her assistant, dragging him into a high-stakes tournament where knights fight using magical clothing. But Toma's "gear" comes with a serious problem. His T-shirt doesn't just give him power-it strips his enemies completely naked. In a world where nudity is a crime, every fight turns him into a walking disaster. And the more he wins... the more illegal he becomes!

It's not the blade that kills, it's the applause. Whitechapel, 1888. Amid the acrid fumes of the Star's printing presses and the mud of Millers Court, something older than man is taking shape. Don't look for a lone assassin in a top hat: look for a predator made of ink, institutional silence, and collective morbidity. The Dragon of Mist is hungry, and London is ready to offer its finest blood to feed the myth. 2026. Everywhere and nowhere. Alejandro Fiorenova is a digital ghost, a homeless voice inhabiting forgotten servers and archives. He has no location to name, only an open Google Doc and a connection too fast for his sanity. While his dog Pimpa snores, ignoring the abyss and the bureaucracy of the physical world knocking on the door in the form of reports and human interference, Alejandro dissects Scotland Yard's reports. What is the connection between a surgical operation in the darkness of a courtyard and the algorithm that today suggests horror to us in real time? >"The truth is not a stroke of genius, but a stumble. It is Inspector Pendalton's slip in the mud that reveals the stain the luminaries wanted to cover up." > In a journey through the scarlet engravings of the past and the cold investigations of a borderless present, LONDON 1888 throws us in the face with the question that no one wants to ask: if Jack is an invention of our darkest desires, who among us can truly say we are innocent? Why read this book: * The Above: A visceral Dark Fantasy that transforms the Victorian fog into a sentient parasite. * The Below: A rigorous historical investigation that dismantles the false myths of "Ripperology". * The True: The chronicle of a ghost-researcher who in 2026 battles his own dragons, between stumbles of fate and the search for meaning in the chaos.

In a world powered by gears and machines, the city is divided between the rich Light District and the forgotten Dark District known as the Planes. Elias Gearhart, a quiet genius from the Planes, earns a chance to study in the prestigious Light District academy. There he meets Aria Whitmore, a girl from a world completely different from his own. At first they clash, divided by prejudice and misunderstanding. But as their lives become intertwined, Elias discovers love, loss, and a purpose greater than invention. In a city of gears and smoke, one boy's determination may change the future of the world.

In 1898, the Philippines became the prize of history as the Americans defeated Spain, culminating in the Treaty of Paris on December 10, which sold Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. But the next day, December 11, something impossible happened: the entire Philippine archipelago, along with American ships and Filipino people in Asia, vanished without a trace. Witnesses reported strange phenomena glimmers of light, shifting skies, and whispers in the wind. The islands had been transported to a new world: the magical, fantastical planet of Tellos, where humans, mystical creatures, and unknown powers roamed. By 1899, life struggled to adapt to this strange land, and over the next 700 years, the Philippines evolved amid magic and legend. Now, in the distant future, a mysterious Gate suddenly appears in Manila, hinting that the next chapter of this extraordinary history is about to begin.