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Read more about the article On the Wings of Treachery

On the Wings of Treachery

  • Post category:Anthology IV/Short Fiction

++For this sacred place, for this sacred cause, we stand together.++'All Together!' ++For faith and kinship, for divine design, we stand united.++'All United!' ++For blood and honour, for tales eternal, we stand…

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The Avatar of Flies

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFIII - A God Somewhere

https://youtu.be/DiWg4KrXDls Maximillian Ampoh strode down the shuttle ramp with an excitement he had thought lost. It had been decades. Decades spent scraping out a life between the aliens and heretics…

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Read more about the article A Riddle in Three Parts

A Riddle in Three Parts

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFII - Everyone Can See It

'A riddle, then: Name an invisible thing that everybody can see.'Three crew sit in the command module of the freighter Wings of Deliverance. The ship putters across the icy gulf…

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Read more about the article The Man Who Killed Rogal Dorn

The Man Who Killed Rogal Dorn

  • Post category:Anthology II/Short Fiction

Calatar studied the ground. It seemed to move before him, a shroud of grey ferrocrete grime shifting flake by grain as the wind gathered at his back. His armoured boots…

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Read more about the article The Blade of Change

The Blade of Change

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFI - Reclaim

Long had it waited for The Hand That Was Promised, and long had the motion of time and coincidence conspired to produce a being suited to wield it. For only…

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Read more about the article Jail Break

Jail Break

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The sound of bolter fire thundered down the corridor, punctuated here and there by the shriek of Torcmunda’s plasma pistol and the howling of Urdak’s jump pack. Bodies littered the…

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Read more about the article Pleasures of the Palate

Pleasures of the Palate

  • Post category:Anthology I/Short Fiction

INQUISITION CASE FILE TYPE:   MOST WANTED, CASE STUDYTARGET: SLOBODAHN HUSQUE, MASTER CHEFPLANET: SCINTILLAHIVE: SIBELLUSLOCATION: (REDACTED BY INQUISITOR, ORDO HERETICUS CLEARANCE REQUIRED)There is no love sincerer than the love of…

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Read more about the article The Cobra’s Hope

The Cobra’s Hope

  • Post category:Anthology I/Short Fiction

'Until the snake is dead, do not drop the stick.' - Proverb of the Gyptus tribes, M1. All that mattered was their survival.The words of Chapter Master Askook had been…

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