Child of Mars
The last stasis bed failed, and the dying machine spirit released the sleeping form of Tahimik. An aching head and the incessant pinging of a cogitator alert pulled her from sleep.…
End of Defiance
He stands alone, the sun at his back. Though deep underground, he still feels its warmth. Once it raged, shining its light across the galaxy. Now it wanes, guttering in…
The Last Sun
I can’t help but laugh.I shake my head and smile a weary smile through cracked lips. The hopelessness of it all keeps the grin on my face a moment longer.…
Path of the Ghost
One hundred years ago, I died upon the petal strewn fields of fair Myiathra where I felt no sorrow. For that century I was at one with the abiding spirits…
Examination
Farseer Cailenn Ilain faced her student, they sat on the bare floor of the chamber, deep with the craftworld Ai’belcanoic. The white wraithbone walls were veined with psychoactive crystals and…
Extinction’s Welcome
While the stars died, fires stifled by the cold one by one, their attendant planets spiralled to their own dooms, and void-vessels screamed as the Warp imploded, daemon and mortal…
A Wolf in Sheepskin
Auldinwë stood valiantly atop the mangled corpse of a greater daemon of Slaanesh–its desirable pink flesh marred and ruined. The Howling Banshee raised her power sword into the air, wailed…
Fast Fiction XIII
A Matter of Time Featured Story The Featured Story is the grand winner of this theme’s contest. They are chosen by a judging panel including Cold Open Stories Creative Director and Community Judges.…
A Routine Malfunction
‘... 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…
Breach Point
++ 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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