A Beginning
It's Getting Pretty Grimdark In Here... The following story includes graphic, pregnancy-related body horror, which some readers may find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised. × Dismiss alert Indriss Voss dragged…
Fast Fiction X
Was It Worth It? 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.…
A Beautiful Dream
Governor Septimus Aurelian reached for the golden belt buckle sitting on his side table. As their sign of office, a governor was expected to wear the buckle with pride, to…
Coins & Blood
Created by potrace 1.16, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2019 Silver-paved queues, divided across three ornate wooden stands by Nightweave silk, covered the hall and filtered us all through. I was…
Honour & Blood
'I was already a man when he came, heralded by a red star in the sky. I had barely proven myself as a part of my ser’s retinue when I…
Regrets Are All We Have
The fishing line soared through the still air, arcing gracefully. It plunged into a lake of water, so still it could have been a mirror. Snow-capped mountains were reflected in…
To Make the Stars Tremble
Zu’lasa Craftworld, Eldar: There is no information on this lost Craftworld in Imperial records other than the fact that it once existed. -Ordo Xenos records, known xenos gatherings +++ +Suranas, 657.2 Years…
Fear & Loathing in Commorragh
+++ I +++ Pyotr Alexei Raskolnikov – Raskol, to those who cared to know – hadn’t always had a secret patch of the lightless deep void to himself. Out here, lying…
Citizens
‘Come on,’ Jakob whispered. ‘Come on. Come on.’It was all he could do to stop himself screaming. To stop himself from throwing down his tools. To stop himself from getting…
Silver Dream
+++ I +++ ‘She was a guardswoman,’ Demar’s mother, the Lady Oscyllia de Vrjier snarled, her lined and weathered face inches from her son’s. ‘She was a menial. She was fodder.…
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