Revamp & Reboot.
Welcome to Steamed Up; my steamy little corner of the internet. Nothing smutty going on here, however. Not THAT kind of Steamed Up. No, this is now primarily a vehicle for my Glorious, Stupendous, not to say Immensely Ambitious steampunk serial “ACROSS THE STONEWIND SKY”.
Chapter Four – Too Close for Comfort
He was at the wheel. She was frantically studying the old scroll thing, and Lizzie kept wanting to go into a starboard spin. “We’ve broken something,” he shouted, struggling with the wheel. “I can feel it too. Hush!” Oh: ‘Hush’ now, was it? Bloody hell. It wasn’t like he’d married this woman, had he? (Well … Read more
Chapter Three – Dangerous Underwear
“Mr Hoverrim?” He thought it was the maid. Frightfully cheeky of her to wake him like this. He tried to roll over and struck his face on an icy cold wooden frame. “Ow!” “Mr Hoverrim, I need the hole if you don’t mind.” Suddenly he was awake. The whole crazy nightmare had begun again. Sitting … Read more
Chapter Two – Highjacked!
Rodney stared, dumbfounded. Did Bob have a woman in there with him too? Impossible! After five seconds or so of frantic thinking, Rodney’s addled brain finally put together the only reliable explanation for this sudden outbreak of femininity. He had seen the plays of Larkspeare where men would dress as women and women would dress … Read more
Chapter One – Brave Men All
Deep beneath the decks of Her Majesty’s Skyship the Empire Queen, mighty steam engines turned tirelessly, and from her funnels poured tall plumes of roiling coal smoke. Across the stern, jostling a little in the unsteady air, were twelve little airships, and upon the adjacent deck stood the launching crews, shivering in the morning cold. … Read more
Childhood dreams, and death and stuff.
Remember, at the retreat, what the Magic Man did? He walked into the labyrinth. He set a purpose, walked in, found things by instinct, did stuff (or ‘process’), and walked out. And he found his Voice, and he sensed his Magic.
