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Fire in the Blood

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/Fast Fiction XXIV - The Enemy Within

He blinked; the stygian hall still stretched away from him. Lumens shone dim and crimson from recessed alcoves. Their light caught edges of friezes carved into the stone walls, the…

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Morkai

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An icy windRoars through the pinesIn a dome of starsA halfmoon shinesThe world is paintedBlack and chromeA lone pup tracksHis long way homeA trial, a testOf his rebirthTo prove his…

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As Many Are The Sands

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'Wake up, young wolf,' the words echoed as if from a dream, and Einar gasped as he bolted awake. The monstrous corpse of a foe sprawled across his breastplate—a hideous…

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Red Talon

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‘...Ferrum Hold is unbreakable,’ the colonel declares, his tone steady despite the red-lit gloom of the bridge.‘All the intelligence concurs,’ another officer adds, gesturing to hololiths of the fortress-world, its…

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Never Going Back

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Sulun Ro took in the lantern-lit town of Gasakai from his hilltop perch and was content. He had fled, screaming into the void of space after the fire of Horus’…

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Warhawk Skies

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Jagged peaks of shattered rock streaked below his view like the teeth of a great beast, as glacial rivers glinted in the pale sunlight like old battle scars. Above, the…

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The Eternal War

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It is only when I dream, that I forget that I am dead.In those moments, I remember the Astartes that I once was. I can see the colours of the…

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Enough

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Soot rained from Oadou’s burning skies onto Tahrk’s bone and black armour. The Tauran marine scowled beneath his helm at the far-off screams of traitorous voidcraft as they tore through…

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Never Alone

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The wolves gave chase and Eofor ran. He did not know the land. It was cold here and only the uncaring stars cast a chill gleam upon the ground. Trackless…

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Plains of Chogoris

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The plains of Chogoris stretched before him, endless fields of emerald and amber grasses. Hawks circled lazily in the clear cerulean sky, and Subotai could not tell which was louder,…

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