It's been a seemingly long time since I posted a new story. I guess I needed to watch more Murdoch Mysteries episodes and more Frankie Drake Mysteries to become more inspired. Dreaming of airships and listening to a mix of techno(Metric) and Jazz music gave me the foundation for this first ever Steampunk story. I'm still new to the idea of steampunk or exactly what makes a story steampunk. I hope I did a good enough job.
I tried to focus it on Mary, Edward and Serena and everything else is the backdrop for their adventure. If enough of you like this one I could be inspired to write the 3 other story ideas I have for my characters. In this story I tried to envision a different world and in some ways somewhat better than ours; more equitable. Sorry to my American readers, but I needed a bad guy and "Manifest Destiny" and "Christianity" makes America the logical bad guy of my story. I also remade my fellow Canadians to be less cruel and evil than we have been and somewhat still are.
Thanks once again to Barney R for his great editing. The tough part about editing something written by a person with Bipolar 2 disorder like me is the missing words, sentences and paragraphs in a story due to manic thoughts streaming from my mind faster than my fingers can type them. Then during depressed moods when I'm able to write the story becomes excessively wordy.
I hope you all like this first and hopefully not last adventure of: hopelessly nerdy scientist/inventor Edward, his bride the rich girl tomboy Mary and their lover, Lara Croft-like, spy/soldier and adventurer Serena Wolfe. Serena was not meant to be as important as she became after the first couple paragraphs, but that's how the story emerged from my mind. If you like it, I'll see what trouble these three lovers can get into on their next trip to: Ottawa or Niagara Falls or even Paris, France?