Muted Existence
What would you be willing to risk to save a child?Gad Thaddeus Skark was presented with this question.As a factory worker in the middle-hive, he had a more comfortable life…
What would you be willing to risk to save a child?Gad Thaddeus Skark was presented with this question.As a factory worker in the middle-hive, he had a more comfortable life…
My name is Roboute. I maintain the servitors that clean hab block 117. Like so many others, I am named for the Imperial Regent, son of the God-Emperor, but I am not a great man. My parents wished more for me than what I am.
‘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…
Psychic Whiplash was one name for it; trauma was the other. Inonar looked down at the pale, ashen face before her, contorted in a final horrible scream. She still held…
Men crawled the world below as ants atop their mound, picking clean the surface and near-depths to feed the hive and Imolier at its peak. This was the closest they…
I look up at storm-wracked skies, but only because I no longer have a neck to turn my head away. Hot winds parch me, but when the blood rain falls…
003.002.M42Celebrations of the new year today. We got more rations, which was welcomed by all. Work didn’t let up, though. Once again, my ears and fingers hurt from the constant…
Tick.The rail lines are colour-coded for convenience. White, blue, red - manufactorum, administratum, and if one was to imagine this Hive to be a vast body, then these veins pulsing…
Together we sing the song of the angels and the cosmos sings back in joy. The song is beautiful and hungry, yet one voice sings louder than the rest creating disharmony.…
When I was little, my favourite stories were the ones Mama would tell me about the Sun. She would always talk about it with this… this reverence, like it was…