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The Loudest Voice

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFXXV - The Mind's Eye

Captain Lyra Hawke was dead. Her killer, Malachar Vex, sat in the hearing chamber. Physically, he was there, but the battle clung to him.The smog stung Malachar’s nostrils. The stench…

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Unmaking

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She couldn't remember the last time she had seen sunlight. Chaedi had too much time for such thoughts. Stifled as she was in the deep cold vaults of the Librarius, her…

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What Watches the Watcher

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Librarian Seraphel did not see the battlefield.He felt it.The world beyond the plasteel and ceramite walls of the Rhino was a pressure in the back of his skull, a bruise…

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Trachiniae

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The first place I die is a rooftop. Tin under my bare feet. Warm from the day’s sun. The hive wind tastes of rust and promethium. I am eight. I have a name.

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Fire in the Blood

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/Fast Fiction XXIV - The Enemy Within

He blinked; the stygian hall still stretched away from him. Lumens shone dim and crimson from recessed alcoves. Their light caught edges of friezes carved into the stone walls, the…

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A Touch of Heaven

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I was lost.I’m not sure how it happened; one moment I was on the transport to … wherever they were sending me, the next moment, I was swallowed by Chaos.…

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The Cut

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‘Sigma-33/Mars, fire at that flying Tyranid.’My mistress, Magus Anydrus, simply gives the order. Her voice echoes through all my circuits, and obedience is immediate. I use my Lascannon on the…

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The Price of Paper

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He had sold his sister’s body for corpse-starch and sworn never to be that kind of bastard again. Now, he was damning strangers for the price of a meal-token.Against every…

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Egg

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Lethia had a friend. She didn’t exactly call it a “friend”, more like a “pet”. But where she lived, she didn’t have many friends, and she was glad to find the…

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The Shaking

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/Fast Fiction XXIV - The Enemy Within

Lorn was strong. That was all that mattered.An Ogryn’s worth was in his arms and shoulders, in how many rocks he could split digging the trenches, how many heavy shells…

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