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…
First Redoubt
After a while, the pounding of the drums creeps under your skin and plays a tattoo on your soul. I haven’t slept for days. None of us have. Reveille, when…
The Dark Stabba
Kommando Kaptin Gron may have been built like a grox, but currently he was squeezing through the pitch-black air vent like an unwilling grot oiler crammed into a trukk exhaust.…
No More Hiding
In the darkness of his office, Father Henry clicked on the vid-feed screen. Staticky images and shadows battled across his walls. For the past month his city had been a…
The Burning of Sebastian Chiara
All my life I prayed for proof of my faith. Now, everyone can see it.They tied Sebastian Chiara to the husk of a tree, his arms lashed outstretched to the…
The Eye on a Distant World
The hole in the world appeared three rotations prior to when the Arbitrators of Thrax brought Janus, the discoverer of the phenomena in for interrogation. Half the planet knew about…
Abomination
The klaxon’s call rises through the factory like the bellowing of an enraged giant, summoning the teaming millions who cling to life among the Rez-stacks to their labours. My eyes…
An End to Inequity
'Everyone can see it.... the... the... inequality.' The words sputtered out of Evara’s mouth into the upturned face of the clergyman, as he hung from a meat hook speared through his shin.
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…
Family
'So what’s it gonna be kid? You gonna stay hidin', cowardly like your old ma, or you gonna come out?' Kassa didn’t flinch from behind the barricade. No grox-brained enforcer…