Fiction & World-Building in Cotton-Candy Skies
Where brass automatons dream in pastel, and airships drift through rose-tinted clouds. Enter our literary parlour and lose yourself in tales of copper-wire hearts and steam-powered souls.
“A tale of an automaton clockmaker who discovers her own gears beat in syncopated rhythm. When consciousness blooms in copper coils, what becomes of the soul?”
By M. Sterling
December 20, 2024 • 25 min read
Fresh fiction delivered by pneumatic tube to your reading parlour
“When Captain Eliza Whitmore's pink-hulled airship collides with Lord Ashford's brass dreadnought, neither expects the entanglement that follows—of propellers and hearts alike.”
Victoria Copperfield
30 min read
“In 1887, London's sugar supply turns mysteriously pink. Detective Inspector Gearwright must navigate a web of steam-powered intrigue to uncover the sweet truth.”
Augustus Pistonbury
40 min read
“Steam-powered pirates sail brass-plated ships through cotton-candy clouds. When Captain Rosalind discovers a map to the legendary Pink Pearl, adventure awaits in the aether.”
Jack Brassbeard
35 min read
“An alternate 1815 where Napoleon's defeat comes not from Wellington, but from an alliance of pink-goggled inventors. History pivots on a rose-colored lens.”
Professor H. Chronwell
45 min read
“A struggling writer discovers an antique typewriter with pink ribbon that types stories on its own. But every tale demands a price measured in brass and blood.”
Penelope Gearsmith
28 min read
“In a world where emotions are visible as colored steam, a pink-vapor detective must solve the case of the missing brass heart before the city's clockwork stops forever.”
Submit your tale of 3,000-10,000 words by month's end. Winners receive publication and a custom brass bookmark.
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Featured Author • December 2024
M. Sterling weaves tales of mechanical consciousness and cotton-candy dreams from their workshop in Neo-Victorian London. Their stories explore the intersection of humanity and machinery, always with a touch of pink whimsy.
Published in the Saloon: “The Brass Heart Paradox,” “Gears of Glass,” “The Pink Pneumatic Post”