The Judgement of Wrath
Sweat stung Salit’s eyes as he staggered through the steamy jungle undergrowth. Blood seeped from deep gouges across his back and he gritted his teeth against the pain of each…
Sweat stung Salit’s eyes as he staggered through the steamy jungle undergrowth. Blood seeped from deep gouges across his back and he gritted his teeth against the pain of each…
The Gamma in the next cell won’t stop crying. Not silent tears like my own, but great wracking sobs.
Every breath Aramis took spread the ice a little further across the inside of his canopy. Starlight shimmered around the crystals as the crippled ship curved across the heavens. Yet still they grew.
The first time he saw her he turned to Cassius and said, 'I'm going to marry that woman.' They were in the mess hall; he had a spoonful of grox stew halfway to his mouth.
Heat bloomed in the core of the blast doors, a swell of actinic light in a tomb of darkness. Sparks pinwheeled like drunken fireflies as metal that had stood in…
[143.938.M41] [Journal Entry: Commissar Yorke - Aboard the Caput Inter Nubila] One of my duties as regimental commissar - and by far the one I least look forward to, in all I…
It had been more than twenty thousand years since the Prosperity was launched. Back then it was one of millions of Soyuz-227 Exodus Class ships.
The hollow peeling of a brass bell heralded the arrival of the evening tide. It was accompanied by a low fog. It swirled through the streets, its questing tendrils creeping…
Tasty Taavo yelled: 'Meat wraps!' Pheromone ejectors on the cart wheezed and pumped out a blast. 'Meatsticks!' Something must have been off with the mixture, or the ejectors were overheating again because Taavo’s guts…
Promotion ceremonies were always on the primary flight deck. They told us it was because it was one of the few places on the ship that could accommodate us all.…