Out of Fear
'Don’t go.'Elam froze in the doorway of their meagre hab-apartment. He looked back at the wreckage of his wife. Her skin was grey, her hair lank and unwashed, her cheeks…
A Guide to Transactional Leadership
‘I must say, Lord-Chairman, I’m very impressed.' Solana smiled, sitting as he gestured to the chair opposite his desk. It was soft and smelled of rich, smoky leather.'I aim to…
Thrice Damned
‘Accursed Devil, thrice damned is all thy race’ - Johannes Miltonus, M2The shuttle descends out of the sun, its slab sides resolving from dark shadow into the familiar blue and…
Old Oaths and New Gods
‘Pressure, here, quickly!’ Yersin followed Surgeon Clepis’ orders, placing his hands in the guardsman’s sucking chest wound. Over the last week, the imperial lines had been pushed back, and the battlefront…
The Avatar of Flies
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…
A Riddle in Three Parts
'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…
The Man Who Killed Rogal Dorn
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…
The Blade of Change
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…
Pleasures of the Palate
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…