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Read more about the article Fire and Smoke

Fire and Smoke

  • Post category:Anthology XIII/Short Fiction

RunningMaurice’s sprint for his life turned into a skid as he tried to close a curve, his shoulder impacting the opposite wall with enough force to make his teeth rattle.…

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Read more about the article The Rat of G-Secundus

The Rat of G-Secundus

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Deep in the power core of asteroid mining station G-Secundus, a small framed servitor designated E777, or E-triple seven, squeezed through a narrow maintenance tube. It reached hand over hand,…

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Verity

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You wake up this morning as you do every morning, at the sound of the bull grox grunting in the fields. You go through all the essential ablutions, washing your…

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Read more about the article His Voice

His Voice

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++ From the blasphemy of the fallen, ++++ Our Emperor, deliver us, ++++ From the begetting of daemons, ++++ Our Emperor, deliver us, ++++ From the curse of the mutant,…

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Read more about the article Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Chains

Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Chains

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I shuffle forward two paces. The chains on my wrists and ankles rattle with every movement. The air is heavy with emotion, mostly fear, desperation and anger, but all I…

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Connection Severed

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<Noospheric communication sub-routines compromised.><Reverting to unit sub-tethering.><Active cohort units in-field = 65…><62…><58…>Eros-Tybalt 71-Delta 324 was one of fifty-eight Skitarii constructs currently active in the battered warscape that constructs higher in…

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Read more about the article Muted Existence

Muted Existence

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What would you be willing to risk to save a child?Gad Thaddeus Skark was presented with this question.As a factory worker in the middle-hive, he had a more comfortable life…

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Read more about the article My Name is Roboute

My Name is Roboute

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My name is Roboute. I maintain the servitors that clean hab block 117. Like so many others, I am named for the Imperial Regent, son of the God-Emperor, but I am not a great man. My parents wished more for me than what I am.

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Blessed by Holy Light

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‘The worthy will come to know the word of the Father, and the blessed will see His holy light.’Ulsaman’s foot slipped, and his entire body tensed. Pain pulsed through his forearms…

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Read more about the article Plasteel Shaman

Plasteel Shaman

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Men crawled the world below as ants atop their mound, picking clean the surface and near-depths to feed the hive and Imolier at its peak. This was the closest they…

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