Not Even in Death
Pain was the first sensation. So in birth, alike in rebirth. It clung to wakening like babe to mother, surged electric through phantom limbs and breathed fresh life into the…
MIA
Katya ducked as a plate spun past her head and smashed on the wall behind her. Shards of cheap ceramic peppered her greatcoat, the dust turning the black to a…
Dead Language
‘Hey, lieutenant,’ said Trooper Garn with his usual grin, though he’d been dead two weeks. ‘What’s the good word?’ ‘Go away,’ was the response from under the covers.
Circle of Death
A whipping sound whistled through the air… Followed by a thud as something solid hit the deck. Aboard the Hippocrasian Agglomeration, a space station in high orbit around Morwen VI,…
Born Three
They don’t realise that I can hear them as they crawl over me like flies on a rotting carcass. But unlike those who feed on a dead animal, these insects…
A Waxen Miracle
Something felt off that morning when Sacrist Polonius rose for work. For a start, he wasn’t in his bed. Instead he lay on a steel bench in a room lit…
Unstoppable
Adeptus Ministorum Shivering with anticipation, Mercy crouched, ready to pounce from the darkness. The ceiling cavity was hellishly hot, lined with heated water pipes, and insulated from the cool corridor…
Hexegon
‘The Hexegon shall not suffer a flaw.'The words reappeared in her mind in fiery letters, tapping behind her forehead as a headache constricted her skull. Nefrati’s sobs rose again as…
Roses Never Wilt
Trenches, mud, corpses and craters make for the only real landscape left. I am kneeling on the edge of a trench, my once white armour plastered with blood and grime,…
Emperor Forgives
NegativePositivePositive A horror in ink. I placed the reports on the table, quickly covering it with a cloth when I heard the door unbolt and a chuckle from around the corner.…
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