Airlock
The airlock is small and dark. The exterior door is illuminated dimly by a square of hard yellow light cast out from the interior bulkhead window. I sit staring at…
Pen Pushing
‘Congratulations, Mr Pious. You're dead.’The words slowly flowed into his brain through a pair of frostbitten ears. Something wasn't right about them - something wasn't right about any of this,…
The Numbers
---Extract from a diary found in Hive records stack Garitus Potentus III. Found by Adeptus Arbites investigation squad Thalidum Quintus. Diary from missing Administratum clerk Castrius Palermu. Diary reads--- I…
Ready at Last
He was here at last. She felt His putrid corruption filling the air again. Finally, after all this time, the thickly sweet stench of untreatable failing flesh was amongst them.…
Chit Happens
Hubert was a pen-pusher, so the laspistol in his sweaty grip felt far more alien than whatever was pounding the fortress void shields. The invasion was an abstract to him,…
Memento
Luci held the coin tightly as she ran through the crowded halls of the market district. She nimbly dodged an almac vendor, ducking beneath the swaying bottles that hung suspended…
The End of Truth
Amadeus stared at the blank parchment, unused ink and quill beside it. He felt his stomach tighten, ever-familiar anxiousness filling him. The emptiness of the page threatened to swallow him.…
Yesterday’s News
WRITTEN BYDANIEL SUMMERBELL SCRIPT EDITED BYCOLYN DEGRAAFF DIRECTED & PRODUCED BYCOLYN DEGRAAFF INCLUDES MUSIC BYROBERT RENATO HACK COVER ART BYORNIRIS TERENSI KATYA TSALPAROVKAT PETERSON EDUARD DOMARISSTEVE MCGRATH HISTORITOR PISETSJONATHAN COX…
The Bureau of Administrative & Bureaucratic Administration
The sound of scratching on paper, the dull hiss of burning candle wick, and the stale breath of hundreds of adepts working away in the darkness filled the air within…
Yesterday’s News
Day 465 ‘Going live in 10, 9…’ Blinking in the floodlights, Katya stole a look at the figure beside her. Eduard Domaris. She still couldn’t quite believe it. He caught…