Bait
Now: ‘Hyades! Hyades! Hyades!’ howls the monster in the void. The voice of the Daemonship – hot with fury, rank with spite – screams across every spectrum, defying the silence…
The Emperor’s Faithful
‘T’ was the last letter Agnes drew with her quill. She indulged herself for a moment as she regarded her work.‘Si hoc legere potes, nimium scis et occidi oportet,’ was…
Mark of the Beast
The mark of the beast.Eyes of crimson ruby. A perpetual snarl cast in bronze—a countenance as much of an angel's as that of a devil's.With trembling fingers, Isaria reached out…
Illusions of Choice
The old woman had always known that it was only a matter of time before the darkness came for her grandson. She had done all she could to push it…
Hourglass
I Death’s eye dipped below the horizon and Tobekh walked into the desert. The air was still warm, and no-one paid any mind to his departure. He simply put down his…
A Test of Faith
‘We give thanks to you, oh Father, who are in Terra, for this festival we are to partake in. Bless the hands that wrought it and toiled in its making.…
The Burden of Command
It occurred to Nilla, while her eyes detailed the sky above and the seemingly unique and ever expanding cloud, that maybe, this planet did not have any other kind of…
Behind the Veil
The vile creatures stood before her. Breathing through her mouth, she choked on the rancid smell. Putrid and pestilent, the oversized mutant oozed pus from various lacerations. A large flap…
Cano’vas
Another assignment, another challenge. Lovely. I took my case from my desk and headed towards Research Pod 6, where recently O'Tsua'm had brought back some strange alien under isolation. A previously…
The Wheel Must Turn
A Soul of Theseus I put two bullets in the captain's brain pan and ended six years of friendship. He squealed a syllable of unidentifiable noise, and died with a…