A Clockwork Heart: A Steampunk Short Story

by Brad R. Cook

Obadiah has the most broken heart in all the land. After months of tracking his sorrows, and weeks hard at work in his workshop, he devises a solution - a clockwork heart. Lilly, his assistant comes, every day to care, feed, and clean up after the town’s inventor. Today is a special day, the day he fixes his heart.

10 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 1, 2016

About the author

Author of the steampunk novel, Iron Horsemen (treehouse publishing group, December 2014), and the sequel, Iron Zulu (tpg, November 2015). He began as a playwright, dipped into the corporate writing world, and served as co-publisher and acquisitions editor for Blank Slate Press. He joined the board of St. Louis Writers Guild in 2008, and served as President from 2011 to 2015. A founding contributor to The Writers’ Lens, a resource blog for writers, he can be heard weekly, as a panelist on Write Pack Radio. He learned to fence at thirteen, and never set down his sword, but prefers to curl up with his cat and a centuries’ old classic.