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]]

Well, would you look at that. Irina thinks that, for once, she has had too much to drink. If not, how would you explain her hugging a fictional character from a novel? How are you even supposed to survive in a rationality-forsaken world?! Even a sneeze could kill you in here! Will the new Bookworm Pathway be enough? Will Irina raise her Sequence fast enough, or will she be consumed by madness first?

More than five thousand years ago, in the magical world of Allterra, there was a book forged by the dwarves. A book that contained the powers of a God. Time had passed, and the book was never found again. In the present day, in the central city of Augmenttur, there was a humble librarian who was curious, bright and resourceful. Arthur. In his youth, he was an advocate of magic preservation, and wished to document rare magic. But fate had a sense of humor. He found himself set on an unexpected adventure. A wish that came true. When an accidental message he sent out to inquire about the missing pages of a book had spread across Allterra, he learned that the book in his possession was an ancient magic holder and divine in origin. It was the missing book, forge by the dwarves all along. And the dark forces have been long waiting for its return, as the book could grant whoever reads its text, rare power. Tasked by the Elven King and determined to amend his mistake, he must find the lost pages together with a band of misfits, before the dark side gets their hands on them. While also protecting what's left attached to the cover he was holding. But thanks to his error, they had learned that something was brewing in the shadows. In their pursuit of the lost magic pages, they had travelled the kingdoms and uncharted territories and met all kinds of people. They uncovered the truth behind the world, a truth that changed the course of their lives forever. ************************* LEGENDS OF ALLTERRA #1 Get ready to unfold and experience the immersive lore in Allterra. Expect world-building and magical kingdoms. A high fantasy blended with steampunk and medieval touch. Meet various characters and their exciting backstories. Action and adventure awaits you! Go, deep dive to the world of magic, kingdoms, creatures, and warfare and enjoy the ride! Join the epic journey!

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

Sixty years have passed since the Pigeons' War and its end, leaving the Kingdom of Angen locked in the uneasy stalemate of the Great Play. For decades, the Crown has maintained absolute order over its mainland and its colonies. But on a damp morning on the outskirts of Torsbrücke, reality tears open to reveal the impossible: a world utterly devoid of magic. Or: That spring, Germany was finishing a change of government, Scholz on the way out and Merz not yet sworn in. Then, one morning, a stretch of the B2 south of Potsdam tore open. On the other side was a kingdom that looked straight out of the 1800s, except it ran on magic. And they somehow spoke German.

Of the massive might of The Free Nations Army, the most powerful militarized force in the world, the greatest asset to keeping their lands safe and their freedom secured aren't the Storm riders, the only dragon riders in the world, or the mighty Free Nations Navy, with their fleets of ships that could only be called otherworldly, or their tens of thousands of Black Coats. It is the SSO. Sanctioned Squad Operators. Small elite groups working in absolute tandem and absolute secrecy, deployed worldwide and operating clandestinely at any given moment. The rarest of these was, well, R.A.R.E. Respond Assess Rescue Encounter. A hand-picked group of operators selected from other highly effective squads, a supergroup, if you will, that handle the most impossible.jobs. This squad for reasons we don't have time to get into here, became known as THE BOYFRIEND SQUAD. And now, a very sensitive, very impossible job has come up, and only a certain kind of operator can bring it to a satisfactory conclusion. And due to case-related circumstances, these operators all must be female. So it's time to cherry pick the dossier and fill the positions, build a supergroup of ops specialists...build..THE GIRLFRIEND SQUAD!

In the pristine sky-city of the Shard, nineteen-year-old Vane was a brilliant young engineer with a promising future-until his own father severed his right arm and threw him into the abyss to protect a secret. A year later, Vane survives in the toxic slums of the Sump with a homemade clockwork prosthetic and one goal: destroy the empire that ruined his life. He trusts no one. Then, a botched heist leaves him responsible for Milo, a stubborn nine-year-old orphan who refuses to leave his side. Vane wants nothing to do with him. Milo doesn't seem to care. As the unlikely pair navigate the dangerous streets of the Sump, Vane finds his carefully guarded world beginning to crack. Ruthless gangs and corporate hunters are closing in, while the mystery surrounding Project Aether draws him deeper into the secrets of the Shard. Vane wanted revenge. He never expected to find something worth protecting.

The city of Riddlewood runs on Vitaeon-a glowing, volatile energy source extracted from deep beneath the cobblestones. But ever since Detective Sheridan Cavendish exposed the dark origins of his city's power grid, the static has entered his blood. Sheridan is fading. Suffused with raw energy, his body has begun to phase, losing physical density and drifting out of alignment with reality. To keep Sheridan from dissolving into pure light, his partner, the brilliant engineer Finch, builds the Stability Anchor-a chest-mounted bio-frequency dampener fused directly over Sheridan's heart. But physical instability is the least of their worries. Across Riddlewood, ghost-like "Temporal Echoes" are erupting from streetlamps and factory floors, projecting violent, long-buried memories of the city's past onto the sky. Behind the madness is Professor Tesseract, a radical visionary who has hijacked the central Clockworks Tower. Tesseract isn't just trying to reveal the truth-he is tuning the city's grid to a lethal cardiac frequency designed to stop the heart of every citizen in Riddlewood. To save the city, Sheridan must make the ultimate sacrifice: unlatch his anchor, plunge his mind directly into the roaring energy stream, and rewrite the city's pulse from the inside out. Ether-noir atmosphere meets biopunk body horror in this thrilling sequel about inherited guilt, corporate corruption, and the terrifying cost of truth.

Set in an alternate, fractured Japan divided between the steampunk industrialism of the West and the cyberpunk digital grid of the East, the story follows Chihiro Rokuhira, the son of legendary swordsmith Kunishige and robotics pioneer Chiaki. When a mysterious cabal known as the Hishaku shatters his peaceful life, steals the six Enchanted Blades, and subjects him to three years of torturous captivity, Chihiro is forged into a reluctant weapon of survival. After escaping, he teams up with outcast prodigy smith Nikko Iwatani to reclaim his father's legacy, protect the innocent, and hunt down the Hishaku across the lawless badlands of the Solar Frontier.

Titolo: La cronistoria della Giada Meccanica - Vol. 1 (Primi 3 Capitoli)Sinossi: Nelle quattro dimensioni dello spazio e del tempo che conosciamo, si nasconde un segreto racchiuso nella materia più dura e industriale. Anaderol è in fuga disperata. L'officina del mastro riparatore Omissa è appena saltata in aria in una nuvola di carbone e fuliggine per bloccare i cacciatori di sangue. Tra le mani nude, la ragazza stringe un frammento grezzo di giada meccanica, un manufatto vivo che pulsa e risuona nelle sue tempie come un circuito sovraccarico. Mentre si rifugia tra le liane d'inchiostro e il fango d'ardesia della foresta, un allarme sincopato unisce improvvisamente il suo destino a quello di altri due custodi, Ariam e Moon, attraverso i loro gioielli di giada che iniziano a emettere lampi intermittenti nel buio. Non è magia. È una fisica reale, meccanica e spietata che si sta risvegliando. Il tempo stringe, la resina nera trasuda e per i ragazzi è l'inizio di una corsa mozzafiato per decifrare i primi segnali geometrici e difendere il proprio passato prima che le guardie li rintraccino.

(It is highly recommended to read "Alterra: Foreign Eden" before this, as certain characters and events may carry over or be mentioned in passing.) Kusunoki Sakuta has one of the strangest job descriptions: travel to an alternate world, evaluate the highly advanced androids running Alterra Robotics' regional operations, and ensure nothing catastrophic happens on his watch. He's been reasonably successful at the first two. The third remains a work in progress. His latest assignment takes him to Florienne, the most refined, most culturally prestigious, and most quietly treacherous nation in western Caelum. A country built on centuries of aristocratic tradition, it runs on image, reputation, and the kind of social architecture where the most dangerous moves are the ones that never look like moves at all. At its heart sits Fleurdelis, the elegant enclave city administered by Réseau Iris, Alterra's fifth subsidiary. Officially, a media and broadcast conglomerate. What lies beneath that official face is exactly why Sakuta is here. But Fleurdelis reveals itself slowly, and what it reveals is not reassuring. Behind the gaslit boulevards and high-society events, something darker has taken root: occult undercurrents the city's authorities have never fully managed to suppress, dangerous influence flowing through channels that appear on no official record, and a growing suspicion that Réseau Iris is not simply a corporation embedded in Florienne, but something threaded through the city at a depth that goes well beyond legitimate business.

THE SKIES ARE CRAWLING WITH MONSTERS. AND THE STORM IS HUNTING. Kalex never asked to be a hero-he just wanted to outrun the phantom storms that stole his parents and shattered his world. But when an ancient, engineered apocalypse known as the Sky-Rippers begins tearing whole cities from their mountain perches, running is no longer an option. Flanked by his faithful, armor-clad fruit bat, Oplin, Kalex is thrust into a dangerous partnership with Kaelen-a sharp-witted survivalist bound to a lethal Void-Plumed Stalker. Together, they must navigate the high-tech, gear-grinding foundries of the lowlands, survive deadly subterranean beasts, and confront the dark truths hidden within the clouds. To stop the impending extinction of the realm, Kalex must return to his ancestral home, claim his birthright, and lead a legion of elite sky-riders against an engineered tempest. But in a war fought thousands of feet in the air, one bad thermal means a long, fatal fall. Sky-high action, deep bonds, and breathtaking aerial battles collide in an epic fantasy where the only thing deadlier than the storm is the secrets it carries.

"Sejarah mengingat para raja. Namun dunia bertahan karena mereka yang berdiri di belakang mereka." Selama tujuh ribu tahun, Benua Astra terus dilanda perang, perebutan kekuasaan, dan runtuhnya berbagai kerajaan. Sejarah selalu mencatat nama para raja dan para pahlawan, tetapi tidak pernah mengingat mereka yang diam-diam mengubah jalannya dunia dari balik meja strategi. Arven Ashcroft hanyalah seorang mekanik desa biasa. Ia bukan bangsawan, bukan pendekar, dan bukan penyihir. Hidupnya berubah ketika sebuah buku kuno peninggalan tactician legendaris, Arden, memilihnya sebagai pewaris. Sejak saat itu, Arven terseret ke dalam konflik yang melibatkan kerajaan-kerajaan terbesar di Astra, organisasi rahasia, teknologi kuno yang telah lama terkubur, dan rahasia sejarah yang selama ribuan tahun disembunyikan dari dunia. Tanpa kekuatan luar biasa dan tanpa takdir sebagai pahlawan, Arven harus membuktikan bahwa perang tidak selalu dimenangkan oleh pedang yang paling tajam, melainkan oleh keputusan yang paling tepat. Di dunia yang dipenuhi ambisi, pengkhianatan, persahabatan, dan pengorbanan, satu keputusan dapat mengubah sejarah selamanya. Selamat datang di dunia Astra. Sebuah legenda selalu dimulai dari satu langkah kecil.

When the Green Titan resurfaced, a wandering Seeker teamed-up with an adamant Instructor, and an enigmatic Assassin to fend off the corrupted winged-army from activating the machine's anchor that will plunge the region into another war. The Green Titan is an old relic of the past, a haunting memory of the countless deaths that shaped the regulations of the Iloran region in controlling their machines. Aryus Navale is a wandering Seeker who's not meant to be arrested. Being captured by the supposed law enforcers of the region, he is awakened in a rough spot. The people that are supposed to keep them safe now capturing hundreds of people for some unknown reason. His life as a Seeker meant being engrossed in books, discovery, and adventure. However, a certain voice in the wind would change the gears that he used to take control of his life.

In the magitech capital of Tan'thalon, strength is spectacle-and survival is never guaranteed. When young noble Talia Surifarah sneaks beyond the safety of her station, she witnesses a living legend: the Diviner, a blind arena champion whose mastery of earth and combat defies all reason. But the city's wonders hide brutal truths. As deserts creep closer, swallowing towns without explanation, Talia learns that power alone cannot stop what is coming. Attacked in Tan'thalon's rain-soaked alleys and pushed to the brink, she is saved by the Diviner herself-an elementalist whose discipline and instinct eclipse everything Talia has been taught. Bound by duty, shadowed by a controlling guardian, and driven by a world on the edge of ruin, Talia must choose who she will become. A sheltered paladin of noble blood... or something more. The sands are moving. Legends walk unseen. And the first step toward destiny is learning how to stand.

To̅mi Andrei - better known as Plasmasonic - is invited to compete in the Skyspire Circuit, one of the most intense hoverboard racing events ever conceived, held on Skyripper Mountain. The invitation comes from her friend Lorelei Feathercloud, who suspects something deeply wrong with the racers selected for the competition. The racers aren't just ambitious - they're vicious, unstable, and driven by unexplained hostility, as if something is pushing them beyond ordinary rivalry, and it seems too normal. Behind the glittering spectacle stands the enigmatic tech magnate Elara Thistletwaite, the benefactor supplying the experimental hoverboard technology making the Circuit possible. Publicly, Elara presents the event as a celebration of innovation and athletic excellence. Privately, however, she has her own hidden agenda - one that involves turning the competitors into unknowing test subjects for reasons only known to her. To make matters worse, Elara has personally recruited one of Plasmasonic's most resentful rogues, Dynamo Damsel, whose relentless thirst for revenge proves to push the hoverboards to their limits. As the races escalate into increasingly heated confrontations across gravity-defying fantasy tracks, Plasmasonic and Lorelei uncover clues pointing to sabotage, psychological manipulation, and a sinister experiment hidden beneath the tournament's dazzling façade. Caught between fierce competitors, Elara's schemes, and a rival who is hoping to see her fail, Plasmasonic must keep her head on a swivel on Skyspire Circuit as catastrophe lies in wait around every bend. *Plasmasonic (To̅mi Andrei, cover image) is illustrated by Bilcassonato!

This story will take you all into exciting suspense. This story is not from the present time but is from a very old time. In this you will get a glimpse of light magic and light power of his mind.Thank you all for taking our story forward and reaching out to everyone.

Krypton didn't just burn-it left Kara Zor-El floating through the cosmos with a dead world's weight on her shoulders, a battered communicator she refuses to answer, and a bottle to keep the grief at bay. When a blind jump strands her on Runeterra, she finds herself trapped beneath a volatile star whose red-dominant radiation strips away her godhood, leaving her bruised, bleeding, and entirely mortal. Wandering into the neon-soaked grease of the undercity, Kara stumbles into The Last Drop looking for a drink and a distraction. Instead, she finds Jinx: brilliant, wildly unstable, and spiraling in the wake of a city on the brink of total war. In a city that eats soft things alive, two deeply broken survivors from ruined worlds forge an unlikely, dangerous bond. As Piltover's enforcers close in and Zaun fractures from within, Kara must navigate her flickering powers, Vi's intense suspicion, and a volatile, slow-burn romance with a girl who understands that sometimes the world ends more than once. Some stars die out. Others just burn red.

My second collection of short stories, but longer than the works in my Read my Shorts collection. This volume consists of anything more than 1000 words and includes new works, re-writes of a few older pieces and anything else I found on my computer that I'd forgotten to post before. It will contain steampunk, historical fiction, urban fantasy, science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, sci-fantasy, horror, paranormal, general oddity and anything else that happens to fall out of my ears as ideas formulate into stories. Enjoy. Comments and constructive feedback always welcomed.

In an immortal Roman Empire where fading means erasure from living memory, Reaper Aquila is a man obsessed with remembering. Numb, exhausted, and running from a past he relives through fractured memories of those he loved, he prays his own impending fade will grant him blissful oblivion. His final task seems simple: resolve the lingering attachments of a group of immortals who have lived far too long. He doesn't expect Valeria, who instantly sees him for who he is behind the reaper and meets him with a warmth that pierces his frigid exterior. Though left with a crippling injury after being caught in the crossfire of the empire's shadowy underworld, Valeria's radiant and unbroken spirit defies the darkness - and makes him question if fading will truly free him. When they discover a sinister device that can remove an immortal's right to fade, Aquila must confront the remnants of his tragic past and use his connections throughout the empire to uncover the one behind it all. But with a love he never thought he'd find and an uncertain path ahead, Aquila must choose between his long-awaited fading or chasing his newfound feelings. A paranormal sci-fi story with slow burn romance, set in an empire with emerging steam technology and advanced biomedical engineering. Please note that this is a first draft, so I will be reworking the pacing and such. I would appreciate any comments on improvements! :) Human written. No AI :) This book is FREE. If you see it sold anywhere, it has been stolen. Best Rankings #11 in Immortal out of 16.9K stories #7 in Steampunk out of 7.17k stories #1 in dreamlandbooks out of 636 stories Cover by x_luminous_x