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Read more about the article Rebirth

Rebirth

  • Post category:Anthology V/Short Fiction

He was upright, for the first time in years it felt like. The limbs he was adorned with were not his own; the scars that sketched a tale of agony…

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Windows to the Soul

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'Are you the one they call Eyebane?'Lirratus looked up from his interrupted game of Regicide, cocking his head slightly and sizing up his questioner: another power armor-clad giant clad in…

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The Gutter Pearl

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Pyrrho woke on the cobbles, the cool mud a balm for his blistered face. Cracking weary eyes, he watched the second-shift workers pass like shadows on a sundial, unmoved by…

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Read more about the article Burning the Devil

Burning the Devil

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It was a long walk into the fens. The pull of the cart didn’t make the journey any easier; the weight shifted whenever the wheels hit shell craters or caught in…

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Read more about the article Valkyrie

Valkyrie

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'Tell me again.'Sister Aoife looked up at the Interrogator. She had been intent on the bindings that secured her wrists. Not looking for an escape, she knew there was no…

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Read more about the article Blue Fulminate

Blue Fulminate

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In the Antila star system, more than twenty millennia ago, the Interex built a great hub of commerce on the system’s fifth planet; but war with the Imperium destroyed their…

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Read more about the article The Last Hours of Merrick Dahler

The Last Hours of Merrick Dahler

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The cell door opened with a squeal of rusty hinges, and the prisoner looked up, squinting into the light after endless days of darkness. A voice barked from the blinding…

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Read more about the article Howling Mountains

Howling Mountains

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Prologue – Skyfall The sky rained fire upon Valrypso. Such sights were not as rare as they used to be, for this was the Imperium Nihilus. Yet this was neither…

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Read more about the article After the Craftworld

After the Craftworld

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'All pulsar batteries lock on to the Worthy Tides! Destroy it the moment you have a firing solution!' yelled Alara as she sprinted through the wraithbone corridors of the voidcraft.'I...yes…

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Read more about the article Our Last Night

Our Last Night

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As Isha dreams, she drools. When Isha drools, Kurnous cannot resist smiling.This is something only a lover knows of their beloved. Not a detail found on any celebratory fresco of…

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