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Read more about the article The Case of the Wayward Warehouse Worker

The Case of the Wayward Warehouse Worker

  • Post category:Anthology XI/Short Fiction

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…

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A Wondrous Little Thing

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It began with a crack on the wall. It was during a standardised eight-minute sustenance period, wherein manufactorum grunt #996978 was struggling to operate the protein tube dispenser. Grunt #996978,…

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The Eye of the Beholder

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFX - Was It Worth It

Flickering blasts of red light chased the shadowy figure as it flitted across the cramped hab-unit, searing super-heated holes in the cheap plascrete wall and setting the thin mattress alight…

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Ascend

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The clouds burned as God forced its way through the atmosphere. He watched with awe, she watched with fear. He was Quinnus, Magus of the Congregation of the Exalted Sun,…

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Read more about the article The Case of the Stolen Savant

The Case of the Stolen Savant

  • Post category:Anthology VIII/Short Fiction

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…

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Sal of the Hive

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It's Getting Pretty Grimdark In Here... The following story includes themes of abuse (physical, emotional, sexual) which some readers may find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised. × Dismiss alert Do…

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Conflicting Duties

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It hurt to wear her smile.She wore it every second of every day. It was like a mask she could not remove, bolted permanently into place. Yet sometimes – right…

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Mine

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It was a long way down from the spires of the hive. Alena shifted her skirt over the curve of her hip: not an enticement but a warning, a declaration…

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Tasty

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

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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The Silk Spire

  • Post category:Anthology V/Short Fiction

< Back to Short Fiction The Silk SpireAn unofficial Warhammer 40,000 Short StoryWritten by Jenny Strath 'The good die first,' thought Dazia as she dragged hungrily on her lho-stick. The…

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