Gaslamp Stories

Theodore Barclay, a hunter who carries the "Hollow's curse", was born with hair grey as ash, deep crimson eyes that see beyond the mortal world, and the inabil...

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...

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...

The veil between the human world and The Otherworld has been sealed for hundreds of years, but that all comes to an end in one night. Suddenly, all sorts of creatures ar...

"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

Planet Earth is being deteriorated by the outgrown number of citizens pursuing a knowledge of an unreal yet existing, otherworldly powerful sensation known as "sorc...

In this romantic fantasy, sixteen-year-old Leda's only living relative, her uncle Alexander, has a gambling problem that leads him to pawn away the precious charms on th...

I thought I was used to bad things happening. Until I ended up dead. Red makes a humble living in the fog and muck of Bedlam as a cat burglar. But when a job goes wrong...

In which a princess who's capable of wielding magic tries to stop magic-related problems with the help of a socially inept assassin and a few other friends 🪄

Orennox is a wizard who has been around since the world was made. As technology progresses, magic tends to wane and Orennox adapts to the trends. Now called Oren Knox, h...

A battle for the throne, a prophecy, an inventor, and a game of life and death. Enter Mafaria; a world that has outlived its time of castles and knights and has moved to...

Story #1 Heads of History Story #2 Acrimony Story #3 Untitled Memoir of Bilse Tanderby

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...

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...

After her mother died, Munin, a young sorceress, has to reunite with her last living relative: her cousin, leader of the Rebellion against the biggest empire that the Ea...

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...

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...

In an alternate Steampunk world, a young man invents a new source of energy.

Set in an alternate universe. Jim Maitland and Brent have not yet started on their adventures with airships and automata. They are still young. Just promoted in the army...