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Read more about the article A Routine Malfunction

A Routine Malfunction

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‘... and never respond to anything not addressed to you directly,’ Madgie said, placing the crystal champagne flutes on the serving tray.Adma nodded, shifting the tray to compensate for the…

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Breach Point

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++ FOUR MINUTES OXYGEN REMAINING ++The mechanical voice grated in her ears, heard only by her. Artificial and sterile.Trooper Ginny Csilter drifted lazily in the null-gravity. Around her, a twisted,…

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Ouroboros

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Henrik stepped into the cave and looked around. The Guardsman’s dim stab-light revealed scratch-marks on the walls and bones of past explorers on the floor. The air carried a trace…

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Flashpoint

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Time and blood. And blood. And blood again. Anathema to mortals, time is my ontogenesis. In the Immaterium, I manifest on the edge of a bronze knife, in an age…

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The True Lords of Entropy

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https://youtu.be/F0BiqQkUvEY ‘My skin is pallid. My soles are worn. Buboes burst as I sojourn. In foetid rivers, my skin is torn. May your child grant my immortal form! Rusting metal,…

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Regular Medicine

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Time heals all wounds.That was what people said anyway, but Solomon Hart wasn’t so sure. He looked over at his sister, huddled in one over-crowded corner of their hab-block. Her…

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Read more about the article An Endless and Unfathomable Void

An Endless and Unfathomable Void

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Pink clouds meant that the rain had passed and the morning had come. Shifting grey mist floated through the shrine, as water dripped silently from the green tiled eves. The…

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Our Song

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It's Getting Pretty Grimdark In Here... The following story includes depictions of body horror that some readers may find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised. × Dismiss alert ‘I was not…

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Read more about the article The Chronomancer’s Apprentice

The Chronomancer’s Apprentice

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Hakulek winced as another crash reached his audio receptors. Even through layers of shielding, both esoteric and mundane, the noise was getting louder. He hurried to the command nexus, tapping…

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Calculated Mischiefs

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Created by potrace 1.16, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2019 'Kill-kill the interlopers!' Ghree screeched and fired his fusil until his digits had gone numb. The cacophony of chaotic combat surrounded…

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