Circle of Death
A whipping sound whistled through the air… Followed by a thud as something solid hit the deck. Aboard the Hippocrasian Agglomeration, a space station in high orbit around Morwen VI,…
Born Three
They don’t realise that I can hear them as they crawl over me like flies on a rotting carcass. But unlike those who feed on a dead animal, these insects…
A Waxen Miracle
Something felt off that morning when Sacrist Polonius rose for work. For a start, he wasn’t in his bed. Instead he lay on a steel bench in a room lit…
The Price of Power
Archon. It is a word that radiates power. Even the slave races comprehend it, in a fashion. Not the intricacies of our tongue, of course. But they understand. With its…
The Price Paid
Endless, precise formations of Guardsmen marched below, the earth trembling beneath the tread of their boots. Banners snapped majestically in the wind at the head of their columns, while cheering…
The Eye of the Beholder
Flickering blasts of red light chased the shadowy figure as it flitted across the cramped hab-unit, searing super-heated holes in the cheap plascrete wall and setting the thin mattress alight…
You Don’t Dogfight
You don’t dogfight with an Avenger. I can remember Flight Instructor Willingham drilling that phrase into us. It was his mantra. If there was one thing he wanted us to take away from his class, it was that.
What Price Conviction?
Jaryon lay sweating, his fitful mind questing for the calm of the craftworld. He felt himself a discordant note without its song, an aberration marring some foreign melody. The world…
The Thorned Rose
The fingernails he runs across my thigh are tipped with neurotoxin. Yet I do not tense. I run my hands through his hair wearing rings that could slice him in…
The Sky Warriors’ Due
Paying the Sky Warriors’ Due was no simple task. From their village it was a five-day trek across shattered cliffs and brackish jungle rivers. Besides the terrain, there were stranglevines,…
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