The Shadow in the Dark
The sea of the Ethereals swarmed with relentless wisps of agony, missed opportunities and the regrets and fears of millions unborn. The eddies bracketed her ancient vessel as a creature…
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…
Fast Fiction XV
Everything Ends Featured Story The Featured Story is the grand winner of this theme’s contest. They are chosen by a judging panel including Cold Open Stories Creative Director and Community Judges. Happy Birthday,…
Happy Birthday, Sergeant Corde!
How many years? To look at the lines on her face you’d think it had been at least a decade, but that’s not what the chronometer said. She stuck to numbers she could trust.
Home Sickness
Recalled to Yujua. Those three words spread through the camp like wildfire. Pak can see it in the men’s faces. Wonder. Relief. Six years of war in the green fields…
Descension
The Gate of Screaming Skulls splits down the middle and tears asunder. The first ever uninvited guest of Commorragh stands in the broken portal. Stepping over the threshold is a…
Epilogue
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…
Awaken My Brother
The pressure of the ocean depths accurately reflected the feeling of the moment. My head Technomancer and I watched anxiously as the Canoptek labourers removed the coral growths to reveal…
Honourable Persecution
Ellamera darted through alleys littered with burning debris. Thousands of deathly metallic caskets burst through the atmospheric sphere above her, hurtling towards the surface casting translucent vapour trails in their…
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