The Phantom of Black Leaf and Earl

Lucas Merriweather Buford

A millyard man's amazing journey into what's possible with a day off and a bit of tea.

Kuuvian Folklore

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Some folk tales and stories of the people who live in Kuu, a wintery nation in the north of Paorr.

What May Come In The Sands

Lucas Merriweather Buford

A small tale of Lucas stranded in the desert.

Auto-Marie

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Lucas reminisces about the courtship of his youth.

Hello Jacques

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Every year, Lucas attempts to build a third-instinct automaton. This is a story of success from the eyes of the creation.

Land of the Ice and Snow

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Lucas is trying to find the missing townfolk of the sleepy town, Falinnbannao, with help from the crew of the Gazelle. 

The Death of Monopoly

Lucas Merriweather Buford

A new automaton is born that could change everything one day, but new business rivals threaten to change everything far faster than that. 

Mechanical Daughter

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Meredith's life gets complicated all at once when a deal with the Grande Theatre puts Adele in a starring role.

Demons

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Lucas recalls adventures past while waiting for an acquaintance to help him journey once more. 

Timothy's Garage

Lucas Merriweather Buford

A mechanical engineer and his gear-head wife finish their steambike.

This was done for the Short Story Challenge.

Specks of Paint

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Elin spends her Lieday by the sea.

A Short Story Challenge story.

The Order of The Badger

Lucas Merriweather Buford, Phinneus Caractacus Cromwell, and Abigail Beatrix Cormac

The origins of our modern subversive organization, the Order of the Badger.

Replacing Button

Lucas Merriweather Buford, Phinneus Caractacus Cromwell, and Abigail Beatrix Cormac

The Order of the Badger's their adventures after the infamous Charles Button incident.

Court with the Emperor

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Lucas meets with the Prush Emperor to sell him war machines.

Antiford Unhinged

Lucas Merriweather Buford

A series of creepy, unreal stories

Lunch With Esther

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Lucas catches up with his late wife's sister over lunch.

Poetry and Blood

Lucas Merriweather Buford

This is a typical evening for William Bittersworth the deviant poet.

Auld Lang Syne

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Lucas looks to close out a crazy 1895 with his friends.

Waiting for Julian

Lucas Merriweather Buford

A young Lucas waits anxiously for his father to get home.

Across the Pond

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Meredith spends some months in Kuu in search of a script-scroll writer for the Fallinbannao office.

The Cabin Girl

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Prush pirates try to perform a perilous plunder. Cabin girl Zula does her best to prove her worth as a pirate.

Written as a part of the Airship Flash Fiction.

Moving Forward

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Lucas decides it's time for Bob to get an upgrade, Esther to cheer up, and his intern to stop making so many mistakes.

Takes place after Lunch With Esther and at the same time as Across The Pond.

Well Island Journals

Lucas Merriweather Buford

A Kuuvian scientist takes a team on an expedition to collect hard knowledge about Well Island.

Discovery Day

Lucas Merriweather Buford and Gilbert Melker Wrathchild

The Order of the Badger decides to attend the Discovery Day celebrations and hear the technocrat announcements.

What’s announced will change Antiford forever.

The Storm That Lit Fires

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Prequel to Masquerade Mayhem in which Buford's bad luck leads to terrible decisions.

A Library Fine Comes Due

Theodore Emelior Beem and Lucas Merriweather Buford

Lucas Merriweather Buford comes to the Science and Technology Library in Gearford and learns the importance of returning books on time and paying his fines.

This was submitted for the Horror Flash Fiction Challenge.

Laefundloum

Lucas Merriweather Buford

The ancient myth of when Skret tricked Gorrn into Warring with the Other Gods.

A Halloween-like holiday is named after this tale.

Listeners Anthology

Lucas Merriweather Buford

An experiment in abstract storytelling.
This is a series of musical imagination prompts.

Into The Underground

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Lucas & Esther go on a fancy double-date with Meredith & Tea to the famous restaurant, "The Underground".

Written for the Food Flash Fiction Challenge.

Sky-Whale Ale

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Brewer Brothers on a desert adventure full of comedy and shenanigans.

Originally pitched for the Adventure Collection.

Lars' Gift

Lucas Merriweather Buford

The day that Lars gave Lucas the keys to the automatonics kingdom.

Diplomacy

Lucas Merriweather Buford

Lucas Buford discovers the role the Technocracy wants him to play, and encounters an old acquaintance is stuck in the middle of it just as much as he is.

Trainwreck of a Story

Lucas Merriweather Buford, Phinneus Caractacus Cromwell, Abigail Beatrix Cormac, Captain Leo Swift, Astrid Westergaard, Lieutenant Joel Arnett, The Emperor of Prush, Gilbert Melker Wrathchild, Mildred 'Milly' Morteus, Theodore Emelior Beem, and Rosalind Ferch

Pieced together via a party game.

Reputation Precedes You

Lieutenant Joel Arnett and Lucas Merriweather Buford

Lucas M Buford receives a visit from Judge Sandoval.

The Facade

Lucas Merriweather Buford

A young man is disturbed by the glance of a woman he passes by on his way to work in Argenstrath.

But it's probably nothing.

What If... Buford had been Prince Ark?

Lucas Merriweather Buford

An alternate path where the Antiford you know was shaped by a different set of world building rules and Arkham Ravenholm ran for his life as exiled prince.

The Machen Bachen

Lucas Merriweather Buford

A tale of how the Machen Bachen came to be.