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Read more about the article A Riddle in Three Parts

A Riddle in Three Parts

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFII - Everyone Can See It

'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…

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First Redoubt

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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…

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Read more about the article The Dark Stabba

The Dark Stabba

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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.…

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Read more about the article No More Hiding

No More Hiding

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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…

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Read more about the article The Burning of Sebastian Chiara

The Burning of Sebastian Chiara

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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…

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Read more about the article The Eye on a Distant World

The Eye on a Distant World

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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…

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Read more about the article Abomination

Abomination

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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…

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Read more about the article An End to Inequity

An End to Inequity

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'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. 

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Read more about the article The Blade of Change

The Blade of Change

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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…

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Read more about the article Family

Family

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'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…

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