Short stories published in Steamfunk!

Listing 15 stories.

A band of manual laborers bet their legendarily strong digger against a salesman’s machine in a competition to prove human workers’ worth.

In a reality where the civil war ended in a stalemate, a brilliant enslaved engineer and a freed former airship pilot fight to prevent the rebels from destroying the new country that African Americans were able to form.

An African American man from the twentieth century goes back in time to prevent his town from being destroyed by a mob of violent whites.

A woman with a prosthetic heart has the ability to suck evil people's souls out and send them to hell. When her and her partner are treated, the woman must and her partner with insect parts spliced into her face and the power to suck souls dispose of a powerful man’s attempt to capture and use them for his own gain.

A woman who is a seamstress by day and spider by night commits a fatal error and subsequently discovers a malicious group who plans to kill again.

When a mysterious object threatens to kill the ocean ecosystem, the headmistress of a women's university in Africa and her students must traverse the waters to find the mad scientist responsible for putting it there.

A prisoner wrongly accused of bank robbing escapes and is given the power of Ogun to help fight against the enslavement of African Americans.

A robotic escort is tasked with bringing a young woman to the man she will marry, but has to team up with a couple of humans when she is kidnapped by evil southerners.

A group of experienced lion hunters from a nation renowned for the craft is slaughtered after being sent after a mechanical prey.

Two airship engineers who suddenly find themselves jobless decide to make a dangerous train journey from post-war Baltimore to San Fransisco for better chances at finding work.