Silver Dream
+++ I +++ ‘She was a guardswoman,’ Demar’s mother, the Lady Oscyllia de Vrjier snarled, her lined and weathered face inches from her son’s. ‘She was a menial. She was fodder.…
The Case of the Stolen Savant
My name is Quintus Atticus Agrippa. A name long on words and short on meaning. I’m just a man trying to get by in His Imperium like everyone else. I…
The Most Terrible Thing on This Planet is Us
Reed had been the next to die. They were already weak from the lack of food, their actions less nimble, less certain, than they needed to be. He'd cut his…
On to the Next One
Matron Josmene looked to her assistant. Catching her eye, Cal uncovered the patient. A girl, with bright-green eyes that snapped between Josmene, and the dark room.Cal moved his bioscanner across her…
For the Price of a Heartbeat
It's Getting Pretty Grimdark In Here... The following story includes themes of abuse which some readers may find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised. × Dismiss alert Serenity entered the Scholam’s…
Again
Five days of this hell. It seemed longer but Marcel’s chrono-watch still worked. A useful device when in the warp: it counted the days its wearer had lived. A gift…
Charnel Waves
The cocktail of artificial adrenals and deep pressure medication being pumped directly into Lethio’s bloodstream made it impossible to distract himself from the nightmarish flight. Twenty minutes spent in absolute…
The Mournful
Art by Noah Miller The vox recorder had taken a beating over the years, but so had Inquisitor Corrodus. He had to bang the thing against the side table to…
Sal of the Hive
Do you remember the day we met? I don’t suppose you do. Your lifeless stare betrays you. Who was I to you anyway? A tenant? An employee? A statistic? Was I like the others, a dime a dozen?
Peace, in Quiet
I sat alone in my little hovel, fifty kilometers beneath the surface of Tarsian Secundus. Vidfeeds circled me, keeping a close watch on the complex web of pipes that funneled…
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