Lockwarden
I carry many keys, but only one held any importance to me then. It was to an empty cell. Deep below the Imperial Palace, there is a terrible place, and…
Guardians
‘Eat.’ A woman’s jovial voice and the soft clinking of porcelain against wood brought him out of his thoughts. Markendaya Orpehus Jangseung, Shield-Captain of the Aquilan Shield, looked down to…
Turnkey
As he stoically paced down the oppressive corridors of the Ordo Malleus facility of Golgotha-III, snaking tendrils of psychic energy from the prison inmates sought his mind, finding no purchase.…
One of Those Days
001>> Set Time=00:00 where hab/chrono=THDOE0906/637(26) Baumis hurried down the hall, dodging neighbours and the occasional vagrant, pulling his coveralls on as he went. Chance and a quirk or orbital dynamics had…
Password123
A philosopher of Old Earth - his name long lost with the passing of the Age of Terra - once wrote that in Heaven, all is either silence or music;…
Monachopsis
There is a thudding from the basement again. Obed sighs and leans back in his chair with a rusty squeak. He knows the noise well, but he tries not to…
Pen Pushing
‘Congratulations, Mr Pious. You're dead.’The words slowly flowed into his brain through a pair of frostbitten ears. Something wasn't right about them - something wasn't right about any of this,…
Unnatural Selection
Perched high in the shadowed rafters of New Vargus station, Deathstalker watched the cultist approach her across the gantry. He was a slight figure, swamped by his Administratum robes as…
Make Belief
The two clergymen stood before the tall diamantine door of Saint Inoritas’s reliquary chamber in the lower vaults beneath the great cathedral.‘Dear friend, you have our most heartfelt gratitude for…
The Favourite’s Gamble
The child’s wide and stupid eyes regard Ezurath, its black pupils wet and sparkling in the dim white light.His hand tightens around its thin throat, enough to feel the blood…