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Read more about the article Take the Shot

Take the Shot

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFXXII - No Limits

‘Hey, Leo?’'Yes, Mac?''I've been thinking a little—''Always a dangerous task.''Yeah, yeah, whatever. Shut up and have another sausage. Anyway, I've been thinking, and there's something I can't wrap my head…

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One of Those Days

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFXIX - The Key

001>> Set Time=00:00 where hab/chrono=THDOE0906/637(26) Baumis hurried down the hall, dodging neighbours and the occasional vagrant, pulling his coveralls on as he went. Chance and a quirk or orbital dynamics had…

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Arm Over Fist

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFXVI - A Costly Mistake

‘Follow,’ was all the servo-skull blurted out of the small vox protruding from its mouth and started to hover away. Venk told as he was bid. A set of large,…

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Read more about the article One Hundred and Fourteen Kilos

One Hundred and Fourteen Kilos

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFXVI - A Costly Mistake

ISD M41.03.02.148Sentus Auxilla Classification: Civilized WorldPrefecture Able, Subsector IsulisAngelos Hive, Sub Level 12, Precinct 77 +++ Ordinate Quaestor Sera Centis studied the man before her. The man was relaxed, smiling easily, holding…

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Epilogue

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/Fast Fiction XV - The Long Road

Kill, the darkness told him. Less a thought or an impulse than a driving animus. It had framed the purpose before as purge or purify, but these were distortions, heat-haze…

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Read more about the article A Routine Malfunction

A Routine Malfunction

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFXIII - A Matter Of Time

‘... and never respond to anything not addressed to you directly,’ Madgie said, placing the crystal champagne flutes on the serving tray.Adma nodded, shifting the tray to compensate for the…

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Read more about the article Extreme Prejudice

Extreme Prejudice

  • Post category:Anthology VI/Short Fiction

The basilicanum had been constructed during the glorious heyday of Sicara V. Once a thriving agricultural centre in the system, mercantile greed and exacting tithes had long stripped the planet…

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Read more about the article Thinly Veiled Dagger

Thinly Veiled Dagger

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFII - Everyone Can See It

Aloysio Vysterian slipped inside the palace undetected. Formerly it was simply an Imperial Bastion, before then-governor Marcala had renounced Terra’s authority, proclaimed himself Supreme Regent and declared Edoran’s secession from…

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Read more about the article The Price of Being No One

The Price of Being No One

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFI - Reclaim

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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