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Ad Finitum

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Eight feathers left, their multichromatic lustre slowly turning ashen grey. A feather falls, drifting away on unseen winds. The flesh hound runs not from the crimson corpse mounds crumbling into nothingness…

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In Search of Peace

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The heavy bolter thunders, eye-smiting flares belching from the barrel, the grips skinning palms already red-raw and slicked with blood. The fusillade is devastating; her skull throbs, her eyes burn…

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Read more about the article Da Boy on Da Moon

Da Boy on Da Moon

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Rezdek watched in confusion as the ship pulled away from the void-scarred moon. “Dey’ll be back, I reckin.” He said to himself, of course there was no atmosphere, so he didn’t…

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Read more about the article The Last Hope

The Last Hope

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From the flames, a single ship darts out into the void. A single golden shard lost to the darkness, as the last Craftworld falls.  Alone at the helm, Arhanas fights…

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Read more about the article The Last One Hundred Lasguns

The Last One Hundred Lasguns

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The air was a thick soup of infestation. Tyrannocytes punctured the storm-wracked skies of Segmentum Solar. Microscopic nano-spores swirled in every breath.

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Read more about the article The End of Truth

The End of Truth

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Amadeus stared at the blank parchment, unused ink and quill beside it. He felt his stomach tighten, ever-familiar anxiousness filling him. The emptiness of the page threatened to swallow him.…

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Read more about the article Child of Mars

Child of Mars

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The last stasis bed failed, and the dying machine spirit released the sleeping form of Tahimik. An aching head and the incessant pinging of a cogitator alert pulled her from sleep.…

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Read more about the article End of Defiance

End of Defiance

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He stands alone, the sun at his back. Though deep underground, he still feels its warmth. Once it raged, shining its light across the galaxy. Now it wanes, guttering in…

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Read more about the article The Last Sun

The Last Sun

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I can’t help but laugh.I shake my head and smile a weary smile through cracked lips. The hopelessness of it all keeps the grin on my face a moment longer.…

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Path of the Ghost

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 One hundred years ago, I died upon the petal strewn fields of fair Myiathra where I felt no sorrow. For that century I was at one with the abiding spirits…

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