The Deadlands
Kaeria did not like to be saddled. She preferred bareback flying. The saddle meant there was a mission, and missions were a bore for her. Private Jaekzon may have been…
Pride Goes Before
Awakening protocols cascaded through Khazekh's inorganic brain. Each command initiated activation of a different cogitational sector. Membanks were accessed randomly, emphatic engrams slow to link with the entries.The process should…
Fire and Smoke
RunningMaurice’s sprint for his life turned into a skid as he tried to close a curve, his shoulder impacting the opposite wall with enough force to make his teeth rattle.…
The Rat of G-Secundus
Deep in the power core of asteroid mining station G-Secundus, a small framed servitor designated E777, or E-triple seven, squeezed through a narrow maintenance tube. It reached hand over hand,…
Verity
You wake up this morning as you do every morning, at the sound of the bull grox grunting in the fields. You go through all the essential ablutions, washing your…
His Voice
++ From the blasphemy of the fallen, ++++ Our Emperor, deliver us, ++++ From the begetting of daemons, ++++ Our Emperor, deliver us, ++++ From the curse of the mutant,…
Anthology XII
A sun, like burning embers, rose on this day of fate, a blood-red sky to spell the end. With the wind in her back, Torindreth stood upon the cliff’s edge,…
The Cull
As she walked beneath the tall marble halls of Aegis, residence of House Strategos, Sister Lepida decided that Canoness Ismene had done quite well for herself. The Strategos had been…
Winds of Blood
A sun, like burning embers, rose on this day of fate, a blood-red sky to spell the end. With the wind in her back, Torindreth stood upon the cliff’s edge,…
Fifteen Lashes
The woman had felt each of those fifteen lashes dig into her skin and muscles. The executor, one of the cadet commissars, had been anything but slacking in his task.…