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.)

A disgraced noblewoman returns to the empire that destroyed her, disguised as a foreign prince, to burn down the royal family from the inside through one seduction, one secret, and one corpse at a time. *** She was meant to ascend to greatness. Instead, they buried her alive. Solace Mercy Grace Partridge was destined to become the youngest Imperial Librarian in Sanfelton's history until jealousy, lies, and a cruel prince named Kohl Sanfelton destroyed everything. Framed, branded, and exiled to a prison island, she was meant to disappear. She didn't. Rescued by Xīwàng, the enigmatic god-king of an enemy nation, Solace is offered a dangerous bargain: disguise herself as his fiancée and a Calashan prince, infiltrate the empire that betrayed her, and spy for him. In return, she gets her revenge. As the foreign noble Kaashif, Solace navigates a glittering court crawling with secrets, and three imperial princes who each want something from her. One seeks to own her. One seeks to use her. And one, the monster who ruined her life, doesn't yet realize the prey has become the predator. But Xīwàng is more than her handler. He's kind, broken, and dangerously easy to love. And the longer Solace wears her mask, the harder it becomes to remember who she's supposed to be. Vengeance has a price. So does the heart. #2 in genderbender on 4/7/2023 ***Amby Awards Top Pick for Young Adult 2023*** ***Featured on Stories Undiscovered for September 2023*** *** 1st place Literary Book Award from @Kiannawrites01 October 2023*** In Sanfelton, the nobles play games with lives, but with Solace, all bets are off.

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.

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

Year 744, Age of the Artisan. An era of steamcraft, alchemy, and the refined study of ancient workings guides the world into a flourishing age. Across the continent, gentle skybirds follow the railways, meadow blooms shimmer under lanternlight, and forgotten artifacts quietly find their way back to scholars' tables. Yet beneath this vibrant progress, subtle disturbances ripple through reality in ways few can explain. Many describe them as early anomalies-fine fractures suggesting tensions between Order and Chaos. Research on Uniqueness accelerates, revealing possibilities that inspire as much caution as curiosity. Academies race to interpret these signs, but each discovery only deepens the mystery. Still, the world moves forward, confident in its achievements, unaware of the quiet strain beneath its foundations. A patient shadow stretches across the era, unnamed yet undeniable. And within this shifting age, Lucien de Noctval steps toward a path that will draw him closer to its center than he ever expects.

In the haunting depths of Rapture, two lost souls find each other amidst the ruins of a broken world. Ruby, a former singer turned Splicer, and Lily, a Big Sister with a tragic past, navigate the fragile line between survival and connection. When fate forces them to confront their shared trauma and emerging feelings, they cling to each other in a desperate attempt to rebuild something beautiful amid the chaos of a dying city. As their relationship deepens, they escape Rapture's depths, setting sail toward an uncertain future on a passing American passenger ship. Now, as survivors of the underwater dystopia, they must weave new lives, carving out love and healing in a world that seems foreign and full of possibilities. Through the unraveling of Ruby's haunting past and Lily's rediscovery of her own strength, the two women come to realize that freedom, true love, and hope exist beyond the wreckage of Rapture. Their journey toward San Francisco becomes a testament to resilience, as they find solace not only in each other's arms but in a promise of a future unshackled from their pasts. Drowning in Red is a tender, slow-burn romance set against the backdrop of one of gaming's most tragic worlds, exploring themes of love, survival, redemption, and the unyielding human spirit in the face of despair.

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.

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.

Connie Derringer's day hasn't begun well. She's just blown up her place of employment and killed dozens of people, including two of her own team. Director Harman isn't having the best of days either. The project he's sunk millions of sovereigns into has just been blown sky-high, and now Chancellor Gordon, Head of the Republican Council is on his case. Chancellor Gordon doesn't need new problems. If the vaporisation of a city block wasn't bad enough, the uneasy truce between Emberland and their warlike neighbours has broken down. Against a backdrop of an escalating war against an enemy with air superiority, Connie Derringer must protect her client's invention against Nallian spies and saboteurs. Everyone wants a piece of the Koulomb Gate, but perhaps they'd be less keen if they knew about the alien creatures lurking on the far side of the portal.

Ayanokouji Kiyotaka has transmigrated to a world resembling the Steam Age of Earth. A world where Beyonders, humans with powers beyond reason, walk among the people. A world where the existence of Gods are genuine. Now under the name of Kael Montclair, he aims to seek out these powers and work on improving his powers to uncover the mystery of his arrival in that world.

this alternate timeline of Arcane, Shimmer and Chemtech are developed decades earlier by ambitious Zaunite chemists, including an early collaboration between Singed and a young Silco. Vander, as the charismatic leader of Zaun's underclass, unites the fissures with his brother-figure Silco to launch the Crimson Dawn Rebellion. Armed with prototype Shimmer enhancements and crude Chemtech weapons, Zaunite rebels catch Piltover's Enforcers completely off-guard. The uprising turns into a brutal slaughter, with enhanced Zaunites overwhelming the unprepared topsiders. Piltover falls, becoming an occupied city under Zaun's control for years. Resources flow downward, Chem-barons rise in power, and an uneasy truce is eventually brokered: Zaun dominates, but open war ceases. Vander rules as a pragmatic governor from the ruins of Piltover's council chambers, while Silco handles the shadows. Hextech emerges later as Piltover's desperate counter-innovation. Years later, the fragile peace shatters when Chaos-a mysterious, pink-haired young woman with glowing violet Shimmer veins-emerges as a terrorist force. She is the "first child of the new world," born from a tragic Shimmer bomb accident during the rebellion. Her actions force altered versions of familiar characters to converge and stop her before she ignites total war.

The Mc guy who died in his world but he met the gaddes given him the second chance in fantasy but he can also summon the ww2 japanese style in anotherworld But not only that

In an alternate universe where two worlds collide, Eleven, a young girl with extraordinary psychic abilities, escapes the clutches of Hawkins National Laboratory-only to find herself hurled into the chaotic, dark streets of Zaun. She is discovered by Jinx, the unpredictable and explosive daughter of Zaun's criminal underworld, who becomes her reluctant yet fiercely protective mother figure. As the two forge an unbreakable bond, El must learn to navigate the dangers of this new world while coming to terms with her own powers and growing identity. But the veil between dimensions is thinner than they realize, and when a monstrous entity from the Upside Down, controlled by the sinister Vecna, emerges, their worlds are forced into a battle for survival. Together, with the love of a chaotic mother and the strength of a powerful daughter, El and Jinx must face the horrors from the dark corners of reality-and protect each other from the greatest threat Zaun has ever seen. Stranger Hex, is a gripping tale of found family, chaotic love, and the fight for control against forces that threaten to tear them apart.

There is no night in the Everburning City. There can never be. Fourteen people lie dead on the platform of Billows Station, killed by fire and rage. And as the perpetrator hides within the millions of people who inhabit the City, the task of finding this murder falls to Inspector Samuel B Fraser. Aided by a grateful Bureau of Oversight, his investigation will reach deep into the mysteries that brought a young man to the madness of desperation, and beyond into secrets that some powers would rather stay buried. Cover art by the superbly generous Narcisse Navarre @inksorcery

Enter a world of wonder as you follow the young fairy Ehrynn Frostthorn on her path to uncover the mysteries surrounding her past. Advisory age: 13+ ✧⋄⋆⋅⋆⋄✧⋄⋆⋅⋆⋄✧ SYNOPSIS It's been over a cycle since I was almost caught by the Hunters, since I was torn apart from my family and was thrown halfway across the dimension, to the Realm of Magic. They say Magic comes from who you are as a person, from your inner strength and determination to follow the path you're on- and if that's so, maybe I've lost it. Ever since that day I've been unable to spark even the tiniest bit of magical energy- or well, up until recently, that is. It all started after a slight deviation in this dream I've been having and an incident in the Nevadoran Forest- and now I suddenly got invited to study at a school for Magic, Arthyrell Academy. Will this finally lead me to the answers I've been seeking? ✧⋄⋆⋅⋆⋄✧⋄⋆⋅⋆⋄✧ CONTENT WARNING A central focus in the book series is trauma. Therefore, this novel contains and explores themes surrounding mental health, mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety disorders, self harm & suicide, death - either of an individual or genocidal, and other forms of loss, (fantasy) violence and abuse & oppression in multiple forms or ways. This content, while written with care and respect, may be unsuitable for audiences under the age of 13, those who are susceptible to influence from or who are uncomfortable with these types of topics and those who experience triggers as a result of being subjected to harm by any of these circumstances. The novel includes these themes to shed light on and bring about debate on these topics, however this does not mean it will always be a pretty read-through. Especially graphic or shocking chapters contain their own seperate warning.

For the first time since their adventure on the Hindenburg, Tes and Holly have been forcibly split. With Holly not knowing where Tes has gone, she and Sola must brave pirates on a floating island in an attempt to find their companion and escape. Things get complicated, though, when a ship of pirates kneel to her, proclaiming her as Captain Holly, the "poison fruit of the sky." She doesn't know who that is, but she's certain stealing the identity of a dangerous pirate won't earn her any favors.

A lone vampiress rises against the moonlit horizon of America. Her scarlet eyes have seen centuries of war, centuries of story and adventure, and centuries of family and betrayal. The three closest to her complete her undead family, and the one thing that stays the same across the ages is the family name. Like the vampires themselves, it would never die.

When a mysterious hextech rift yanks Vi from the undercity of Zaun during a brutal enforcer raid, she awakens in an alternate Los Angeles where superpowers are real - and they've torn society apart between empowered "supers" and powerless "normies." Stranded, powerless in a world that fears or worships abilities, Vi must ally with the dysfunctional Z-Team of reformed villains to survive, find a way home, and confront her growing feelings for the sarcastic, invisible Invisigal (Courtney), whose hidden vulnerabilities mirror Vi's own guarded heart.