One Cheek Or Two‪?‬

In an imagined Newcastle, an inventor and his new assistant discover mutual desire while testing a spanking machine.

Professor Edward Ockham is trying not to let his attraction for his new assistant, Miss Delia Bennett, get in the way of testing his latest invention, a spanking machine for a girls' school. Delia hadn't expected the genius behind Newcastle's Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory to be so damned handsome. Both turn to bad boy Sebastian Broadchurch and his curious gadgets for release of pent-up desires. Will they ever find passion in each other's arms?

One Cheek or Two? is a workplace romance with a rom-com vibe involving a vivacious assistant in a leather corset and a nerdy engineer who might just be having a bisexual awakening. The 8,400-word short is the first story in The Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory Chronicles, a queer, polyamorous, Steampunk romance series of nine short stories set in an alternate Victorian world meant to be read in order.

The Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory Chronicles

In an imagined Newcastle, England, circa 1878, Professor Edward Ockham toils in obscurity at the Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory, creating unusual machines with his partner Special Assistant Sebastian Broadchurch. Until Miss Delia Bennett joins the Lab, sparking unfamiliar desires and inspiring steamy inventions.

One Cheek Or Two? (Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory Chronicles 1)

Delia's Heartthrob (Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory Chronicles 2)

Swing Follies (Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory Chronicles 3)

Before Delia, Part 1: The Revolution (Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory Chronicles 4)

Before Delia, Part 2: The Partnership (Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory Chronicles 5)

A Thrilling Combination (Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory Chronicles 6)

That Perfect Fit (Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory Chronicles 7)

[To Be Determined] (Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory Chronicles 8)

[To Be Determined] (Ockham Steam-Works Laboratory Chronicles 9)