Long Stories
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Murder Most Fine
Added: 30/06/2024
Updated: 27/10/2024
Ever since the Union of the Isles was established with the Treaty of Four Crowns, Britannia and Éire have enjoyed centuries of quiet prosperity and semi-isolationism. Sure, the four royal families bickered almost as much as they intermarried, but nothing significant ever came of it. All in all, the nations of England, Cymru, Alba and Éire were free to quietly stew in their largely insular existence.
Or so it was until the invention of the Atmospheric Engine, the safest, most stable and most efficient steam engine the world had ever seen. The new engine not only propelled the industry of the Union of the Isles to a degree of prominence never thought possible, it also sparked an age of technological innovation that took the world by storm. Suddenly finding itself taking center stage in the economy of a world that seems to become more interconnected and cosmopolitan with every airship launched, the sleepy little nation of England is undergoing a whirlwind transformation that only seems to grow more intense with every passing decade.
But in the midst of this beautiful chaos, something dark and rank is brewing in the shadows. There’s something rotten growing among the exalted ranks of English academia, and it’s about to go up in flames.
Suddenly pulled into the middle of all this is Alden Stowe, a small business owner of little social standing. He’s out of his depth. He’s out of his element. But he’s in the money, so at least he’s got that much going for him.
In progress.
Genre: Mystery, Steampunk
Warnings: Mentions of burning alive. And murder, obviously.
Lessons Taught
Added: 16/12/2018
Updated: 26/04/2020
Kaia Wilson was, by her own estimation, an extraordinary young woman. But not, in her mind, quite as extraordinary as her father. Long ago, she used to think of him as a fairly ordinary dad, but that had all changed after he came home late one night when she was nine years old. And when her father changed, Kaia's entire life had changed in turn.
Now, her life was about to change once more. And nothing would ever be the same again.
Sequel to Lessons Learned. In progress.
Genre: Fantasy
Warnings: None yet.
Lessons Learned
Added: 30/08/2015
Updated: 04/11/2018
Adam Wilson was, by most counts, an ordinary man. He was of good health, he held a good job and he had a loving family. He did, however, have a rather unusual hobby. A hobby grounded in a vaguely remembered childhood adventure that he had long since written off as a simple children's game embellished by a young boy's imagination. But things aren't always so simple, and the past doesn't always remain in the past.
Completed.
Genre: Fantasy
Warnings: Graphic descriptions of violence and death.
Hood
Added: 11/10/2013
Updated: 03/12/2017
The cloak had been white when she got it, but before the sun had even had time to set it had been stained with red. Now, the blood had stained it from hem to hood, and the pure, unsullied white it had once sported was nowhere to be seen. Unsurprising, perhaps, because in the end, everything always came down to blood. The real question was whose blood. And it wasn't going to be hers.
In progress.
Genre: Fairy Tale, Fantasy
Warnings: Dark. Explicit descriptions of violence and gore.
The Spring Fair
Added: 12/05/2017
Updated: 12/05/2017
Spring blows in like a playful breeze, breathing new life into the frozen world. It's a time for hope, a time for play, but also a time for growing up. So sing and dance and rejoice, but take care not to tarry too long.
Completed.
Genre: A Life Story adjacent to a Fairy Tale
Warnings: None.
Songs of Winter
Added: 28/02/2016
Updated: 06/03/2016
Winter is beautiful yet cold, tranquil yet unforgiving. It can be a wondrous time, if you live through it.
Completed.
Genre: Slightly Supernatural
Warnings: None.
On Fay
Added: 21/10/2013
Updated: 18/01/2015
Two books detailing the curious nature of the Fay folk and one brave traveller's adventures in dealing with them.
On hiatus pending further inspiration and/or increased reader interest.
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Warnings: Peculiar chapter structure.
Memories of Autumn
Added: 28/11/2014
Updated: 28/11/2014
Autumn is a time of preparation, a time of doing. And there's always something that needs to be done, right up to the end.
Completed.
Genre: A life story with some fantastical elements
Warnings: A bit melancholy.
Doppelgänger
Added: 07/10/2014
Updated: 07/10/2014
Some people say that somewhere in the world there is someone who looks exactly like you. They say that if you ever were to meet them, something terrible would happen to you. They never say why.
Completed.
Genre: Vaguely surreal Horror-esque
Warnings: Creepy.
Letters
Added: 21/10/2013
Updated: 21/10/2013
A collection of letters sent by one Joseph Edwards to his mother, detailing the unfortunate events of an ill-fated geological survey.
Completed.
Genre: Fantasy
Warnings: Misfortunate happenstances aplenty.