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Read more about the article Bend the Knee, or Die Screaming

Bend the Knee, or Die Screaming

  • Post category:Anthology XV/Short Fiction

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…

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Read more about the article The Sin of Memory

The Sin of Memory

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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…

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Read more about the article The Punishment for Loyalty

The Punishment for Loyalty

  • Post category:Anthology XIV/Short Fiction

Jone was still adjusting her psy-dampening hood and juggling a mug of recaff when she entered the choral antechamber. Master Furth had been in the tank for the last eight…

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Read more about the article Drums and Death

Drums and Death

  • Post category:Anthology XIII/Short Fiction

Much of Segmentum Pacificus was lost to insurrection during the Night of a Thousand Rebellions. The slow-moving cogs that drove the Adeptus Administratum had not been quick enough to allocate…

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Read more about the article Fire and Smoke

Fire and Smoke

  • Post category:Anthology XIII/Short Fiction

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.…

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Read more about the article Blessed by Holy Light

Blessed by Holy Light

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFXVII - Just One of Many

‘The worthy will come to know the word of the Father, and the blessed will see His holy light.’Ulsaman’s foot slipped, and his entire body tensed. Pain pulsed through his forearms…

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Read more about the article Duty’s Burden

Duty’s Burden

  • Post category:Anthology XII/Short Fiction

++ Do not look to us for kindness. Do not look to us for hope. We are not the kind children of this new age. We are the rocks of…

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Read more about the article End of Defiance

End of Defiance

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFXIV - Everything Ends

He stands alone, the sun at his back. Though deep underground, he still feels its warmth. Once it raged, shining its light across the galaxy. Now it wanes, guttering in…

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Read more about the article Mark of the Beast

Mark of the Beast

  • Post category:Anthology XI/Short Fiction

The mark of the beast.Eyes of crimson ruby. A perpetual snarl cast in bronze—a countenance as much of an angel's as that of a devil's.With trembling fingers, Isaria reached out…

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Read more about the article A Test of Faith

A Test of Faith

  • Post category:Anthology XI/Short Fiction

‘We give thanks to you, oh Father, who are in Terra, for this festival we are to partake in. Bless the hands that wrought it and toiled in its making.…

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