The Fat Cook
Cook’s journal, day 1:I am proud to have been chosen by Lead Explorer J. Y. Causton to serve as cook for the 60-day exploration of the old submerged mine works…
The Anomalous Return of Captain Evidandro
Captain Evidandro returned to us a year and a day after vanishing in the tyranid-infested hell of the distant Corolis meatgrinder. He staggered naked from the Fractured Peaks wilderness to…
Rust & Iron
J05-HAU awoke in darkness. The Man of Iron couldn’t move. Pain spikes jammed into his neurocore. Whenever he started to have a coherent cogitation, a spike interrupted. The last thing…
Reversing Fate
She dreamed of a strange, barren landscape, pocked by craters and run through by endlessly repeating patterns. Alexis had been having strange dreams ever since the accident.
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…
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