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Read more about the article Ice and Starlight

Ice and Starlight

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFVI - The Stars Are Cold

Every breath Aramis took spread the ice a little further across the inside of his canopy. Starlight shimmered around the crystals as the crippled ship curved across the heavens. Yet still they grew. 

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Salvaged

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Heat bloomed in the core of the blast doors, a swell of actinic light in a tomb of darkness. Sparks pinwheeled like drunken fireflies as metal that had stood in…

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Read more about the article In Memoriam

In Memoriam

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[143.938.M41] [Journal Entry: Commissar Yorke - Aboard the Caput Inter Nubila] One of my duties as regimental commissar - and by far the one I least look forward to, in all I…

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Read more about the article The Men of Flesh

The Men of Flesh

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It had been more than twenty thousand years since the Prosperity was launched. Back then it was one of millions of Soyuz-227 Exodus Class ships.

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Read more about the article Drowned Angels

Drowned Angels

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The hollow peeling of a brass bell heralded the arrival of the evening tide. It was accompanied by a low fog. It swirled through the streets, its questing tendrils creeping…

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Tasty

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Tasty Taavo yelled: 'Meat wraps!' Pheromone ejectors on the cart wheezed and pumped out a blast. 'Meatsticks!' Something must have been off with the mixture, or the ejectors were overheating again because Taavo’s guts…

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Read more about the article The Last Embrace

The Last Embrace

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 Promotion ceremonies were always on the primary flight deck. They told us it was because it was one of the few places on the ship that could accommodate us all.…

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Read more about the article The Silk Spire

The Silk Spire

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< Back to Short Fiction The Silk SpireAn unofficial Warhammer 40,000 Short StoryWritten by Jenny Strath[rt_reading_time label="Reading Time:" postfix="minutes" postfix_singular="minute"] 'The good die first,' thought Dazia as she dragged hungrily…

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Read more about the article Those Who Remain

Those Who Remain

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A few days ago the trap might have worked. It was simple, well hidden, and completely lethal. But Tanii had learntfast since she’d fled into these woods. She scoured the…

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Read more about the article The Mowing-Devil

The Mowing-Devil

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Adeptus Ministorum The first sign of the Inquisition was a smoke-signal, across the sky: the vapour trail of an armoured landing craft. The wheat forest rippled as the craft passed,…

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