Friend to the Martyred
The village would have once been described as quaint. Situated in idyllic, sun-drenched lands with gently rolling hills, it nestled securely in their shade. Its streets were clean-cut and well-maintained,…
Hunt
The wolves hunted at night.Or that’s what I thought they were. They were elusive shapes, shadows that moved fluidly. Always hunting, picking at the lost, the stragglers, the exiled. We…
Dust Devil
Once, a lifetime ago, he had been Corporal Orton Merryk, an upstanding member of the 55th Almorian Grenadiers. Now, he was Gash. And the gods were cruel to him. He sighed…
Gifts of the Garden
In a place that's near to nowhere, yet never far away, There blooms a wondrous garden, a haven of decay. No map can mark its borders; no chart can show…
Bend the Knee, or Die Screaming
Agoria. Federation Capital world. Nighttime.‘Kira Coriolanous of the House Coriolanous, sobriquet: Red Princess, age: 21, accreditation: Rogue Trader [foreign title/unrecognised] and master of the Terra’s Stride, displacement: sprint frigate/Galleon-class, archeotech…
Unlikely Allies
‘The worms that walk,’ Khait of Prospero said, scholarly surprise tingeing his transhuman baritone.‘We do no—’A fist clad in ceramite the colour of dried blood smashed through the creature's approximation…
The Sin of Memory
Our only sin was memory. We remembered our transformations, not as the holy apotheosis that was preached to us by the Dark Angels, but as the warping and the mutilation…
Injustice
After thirty-four years standard of doing menial work in the Archivum of the Holy Inquisition, two highly trusted and valued menials—a fellow named Falden and myself—were called in for special…
They Hunger
‘No one thinks about the grades of corpse starch.’ A small, elderly man by the name of Esurian Semper told a group of trainees hoping to become Mortis Keepers, the…
Anthology XV
Agoria. Federation Capital world. Nighttime. ‘Kira Coriolanous of the House Coriolanous, sobriquet: Red Princess, age: 21, accreditation: Rogue Trader [foreign title/unrecognised] and master of the Terra’s Stride, displacement: sprint frigate/Galleon-class,…
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