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Read more about the article Blue Fulminate

Blue Fulminate

  • Post category:Anthology V/Short Fiction

In the Antila star system, more than twenty millennia ago, the Interex built a great hub of commerce on the system’s fifth planet; but war with the Imperium destroyed their…

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Foundations

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFIII - A God Somewhere

The medical bay was dimly lit, the lumens set to the night cycle cast wan light over the gleaming ceramic surfaces. The lone patient lay supine on a table in…

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Read more about the article Arena Of Blood!

Arena Of Blood!

  • Post category:Anthology III/Short Fiction

Heatwaves shimmered off the blood soaked sand, while severed body parts lay scattered across the arena floor, and squig rats sniffed around the edges for the smaller bits of visceral.…

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Read more about the article Thinly Veiled Dagger

Thinly Veiled Dagger

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

Aloysio Vysterian slipped inside the palace undetected. Formerly it was simply an Imperial Bastion, before then-governor Marcala had renounced Terra’s authority, proclaimed himself Supreme Regent and declared Edoran’s secession from…

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Read more about the article No More Hiding

No More Hiding

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

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 Price of Being No One

The Price of Being No One

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFI - Reclaim

It always starts and ends with pain. True pain.A pain so vivid that your existence is torn inside out as cells contort, expand and then realign in a matter of…

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Read more about the article The Voice In The Void

The Voice In The Void

  • Post category:Anthology I/Short Fiction

Sirens wailed. Red lumen globes span wildly, splashing their light in waves across the grey bulkheads. Sealed into an alcove beside the docking bay door a servitor, a mere head…

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