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1 A Burning Love Upon a Ravished Land

An alien occupation. Resistance as a family enterprise. Stan Matheson knows duty, sacrifice, and at the end, surprise. Linked to "Diversions of Angels" 2,700+ words
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction
Downloads: 619 | Votes: 15 | Score: 6.39
Size: 15KB | 2,741 words | Posted:

2 The Diversions of Angels

The Altarai arrive to strip mine the planet, and it's very much the end of life as we know it. But, hey, even all-powerful aliens can get bored and run into trouble. And then humanity's remaining one per cent becomes part of the solution. Linked to “A Burning Love...” ~ 3k words.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Aliens
Downloads: 552 | Votes: 13 | Score: 6.47
Size: 18KB | 3,086 words | Posted:

3 Hunger, Hunger, Sister Anne

If you found an artifact from the future, what you would bargain for to return it? Gold? Stock tips? A burrito?
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction
Downloads: 684 | Votes: 26 | Score: 6.85
Size: 17KB | 3,152 words | Posted:

4 PL01 - Phantom of the Louvre

From the Phantom of the Louvre collection
In the final months of the nineteenth century, Paris revels in being the City of Light. Yet it is hard, and often dirty, work to maintain its place as the pinnacle of civilization. Someone must deal with mysterious sightings, thieves falling from the sky and breaches in State security. Someone like M. Vautrin, confidential investigator... ~9,000 words. [Advisory: aeroships and orange cats play significant roles in this story]
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Steampunk, Crime, Detective
Downloads: 416 | Votes: 12 | Score: 7.46
Size: 52KB | 9,043 words | Posted:

5 PL02 - Flight of the Wicked Flea

From the Phantom of the Louvre collection
London, 1829. Two criminal enclaves battle for supremacy south of the Thames. Second in a steampunk collection from 2015 (notice: no real or virtual steam was applied in this particular story). ~5,200 words.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Steampunk, Historical
Downloads: 360 | Votes: 14 | Score: 6.91
Size: 30KB | 5,306 words | Posted:

6 PL04 - The Hour of Our Blessed Auto Mattins

From the Phantom of the Louvre collection
It's 1957. In a Toronto waterfront warehouse, a group of automatons are having a religious experience. WHAT? ~4,700 words.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Alternate Universe, Robots
Downloads: 240 | Votes: 9 | Score: 8.20
Size: 27KB | 4,826 words | Posted:

7 PL05 - Message in a (Sky Blue) Bottle

From the Phantom of the Louvre collection
Bunny Boyce was happy to serve in a unit where aeros didn't crash: they had landing incidents. On a New Year's test flight, both his attitude and luck began to change. ~ 4,000 words.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Steampunk
Downloads: 303 | Votes: 19 | Score: 7.68
Size: 22KB | 4,105 words | Posted:

8 PL06 - The Brothers Keeper

From the Phantom of the Louvre collection
What is a routine study for his parents leaves a much deeper impression on a 12-year old. A lifetime of loss, disappointment and betrayal is balanced by recollections of a single act of bravery and sacrifice. ~ 4,100 words.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Robots, Steampunk, Coming of Age
Downloads: 292 | Votes: 13 | Score: 7.23
Size: 22KB | 4,136 words | Posted:

9 PL03 - Sail South, to the Sea

From the Phantom of the Louvre collection
A young Australian, resilient and yearning to set her own course in life, journeys far to do so: first sailing South to the sea, then ... ~5,560 words.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Steampunk, Coming of Age
Downloads: 356 | Votes: 17 | Score: 8.18
Size: 30KB | 5,599 words | Posted:

10 PL09 - the Child Takes a Nurse

A short tale of relationships: faithful vs fractious, human and automaton, father vs son. A companion story to The Brothers Keeper. ~ 2,900 words.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Steampunk, Coming of Age
Downloads: 269 | Votes: 11 | Score: 7.07
Size: 16KB | 2,943 words | Posted:
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