Firestorm at Lutsk

Gritty Dieselpunk Vision of WW1 Trench Warfare

By: Leszek Lisowski

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A Tesla weapon looms at the heart of this immersive tale of World War I gone wrong.

On the sodden Eastern Front, the air crackles with ozone and dread. The year is 1916, but the war no longer belongs to rifles and wire alone. In the cratered trenches outside Lutsk, one experimental Russian artillery crew holds the line—not with gunpowder, but with charged coils and unstable current. Their salvation, the Molniya-Katushka M1, is a weapon pulled from the edge of theoretical physics and into the blood-soaked mud of reality. And it doesn’t always behave.

Captain Dmitry Sokolov leads a battered crew of engineers and soldiers clinging to duty as the storm builds. Each decision weighs survival against obedience, and every voltage spike brings them closer to a breakthrough—or catastrophe. As the front teeters, so do loyalties. In the hum of the coils and the heat of scorched steel, fear becomes a currency more valuable than orders.

Firestorm at Lutsk is a standalone short story set in a dieselpunk alternate World War I where the cost of innovation is measured in human lives. For readers drawn to gritty war fiction, eerie tech, and the haunting crossroads of science and sacrifice.

The storm is real—and it does not choose sides. Step into the trench and face the current.