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Read more about the article Bond of Fire

Bond of Fire

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFXXII - No Limits

Matthias woke to the hum of alien machinery, his body aching with pain, and realised, in that moment, he had fallen into enemy hands. Bound by plastic cord against a…

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Just One More Taste

  • Post category:Anthology XIV/Short Fiction

Meat comes in all shapes and sizes, be it the thick slabs of muscle that the Orks flex so proudly or the lithe pale flesh of the Aeldari rippling with…

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Shattered Jade

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

I wait alone, as I have been instructed to do.A glance over my shoulder shows me a rolling sea through thick glass. It is a view calibrated, along with the…

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