Gaslamp Stories

13-year-old Ermin is a gifted mechanic and the worst student at St. Anselm's Training School for Orphans. She's just failed her exams for the third time, something nobod...

Cursed with clairvoyance, Millicent Sinclair has been seeing ghosts for years. More annoyingly, she can hear them, speak with them, and worst of all, feel their clammy...

"A god will die young or they will die mad." Eight hundred years ago, stars fell from the sky and granted divine power to those who caught them. The small, poo...

Short stories that are romantic or love-focused and are in Fantasy, Gaslamp, or Sci-fi Settings

Callum Muir is brought face to face with the woman who stripped him of his humanity and his former life. But can he resist the pull that still exists between himself and...

Elias and Kristen, two teens who have dreams of exploration are unexpectedly taken by pirates and are shoved into an adventure across the Cloud Sea. Aided by a mysterio...

After four centuries of absence, magic has returned. But people have forgotten about it. They have moved on, a new religion has destroyed old grimoires, and humankind no...

When Liam Bromswell sneaks aboard a pirate airship to prove a point, he thinks he's in for an adventure of a lifetime. But life sailing through an open sky turns out to...

All magic is bad. Would you use it for good? Her carefree life, gone. The support of the aunt who raised her, gone. One brutal murder takes Hannah Taylor from the sunny...

A sequel story to The Flame Owl, a novelette I published last summer. After Dr Barton's death, Lowe Road workhouse warden Andrew Russell has to employ a new deputy. He i...

In the fantastic world of Orb, Alchemist City is a rising metropolitan power and the epicentre of a dramatic industrial revolution. Ruled by the Technomages, a guild of...

The Island is about a lady whose baby dies. She struggles to recover. She goes to an island to do scientific studies. She and her automaton assistant Nartis must winter...

An earl with a problem. Nicholas Masterson, Lord Sharpe, has a problem with potions. He won't drink them, he craves them, and they're getting weaker by the day. When his...

"I know it may come off as a shock to you." The Dark Spectacled Admiral demurs. "But I'm afraid that it is the single, unquestionable truth. Your room at...

A past they've never known, calls them back to finish it Life long friends Adrian Crawford and Ella Larsen reunite for what was suppose to be simple camping trip. Their...

Survival is a grim game in Nordturm, and for street kids like Fedor, it's hell... As a shoeshine boy, Fedor scrapes by on the harsh streets. His world turns upside down...

"I am made of this." In a mechanical and eldritch Victorian London, a black arts surgeon is ripping out the bones and organs of the healthy poor to transplant...

The year is 1896, and Michael MacBranain is in desperate need of a job. Fortunately for him (or perhaps not-so-fortunately), the Grim Reaper is also in desperate need of...

Corvus Morgenstern, a teenage genius cast out of the mechanist clan. Mira Chelavye, the prodigy and beautiful heir to the alchemist clan. When she brings color into his...