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Read more about the article Yesterday’s News

Yesterday’s News

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Click here for the audio drama Day 465‘Going live in 10, 9…’Blinking in the floodlights, Katya stole a look at the figure beside her. Eduard Domaris. She still couldn’t quite…

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Family

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'So what’s it gonna be kid? You gonna stay hidin', cowardly like your old ma, or you gonna come out?' Kassa didn’t flinch from behind the barricade. No grox-brained enforcer…

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Prime Helix

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It had been a long and bloody dawn. They had struck as the first golden light crept across the savannah, melta charges and mines detonating simultaneously at multiple points along…

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Cost and Worth

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Amber light danced over the ready room as the projected image spun and flickered into focus. Ship icons resolved themselves in dusty air, and were paired with estimated speed and…

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Read more about the article To the Victor Go the Spoils

To the Victor Go the Spoils

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The massive corpse of the Imperial Knight lay sprawled atop a low hill outside the city limits. The charred, warped crater left in its torso had gone cold in the…

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Reclaim

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Adeptus Ministorum The ground vibrates with the pile-driver growl of low orbit thrusters. Quall grits his teeth at the sudden nerves clamouring through his blood; tamps the impending flashback down,…

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Read more about the article The Scream of Vengeance

The Scream of Vengeance

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To call the atmosphere on the Silver Masque bleak would have been an understatement. The cruiser had been built to carry a full company of Astartes, yet the marines on…

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Read more about the article The Consuming Gaze

The Consuming Gaze

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The eyes follow me. They watch me. They are watching you too. They see you sitting in your chair. They feel the twinge in your lower back. They see you straighten as you feel it too. Do not look over your shoulder.

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Read more about the article Son of Man

Son of Man

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He had no recollection of the woman who stood before him. Her eyes spoke of familiarity and her stance promised peace. She had no fear of him. Almost as if…

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The Price of Being No One

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It always starts and ends with pain. True pain.A pain so vivid that your existence is torn inside out as cells contort, expand and then realign in a matter of…

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