Byzantium
‘…I already explained that I don’t have that.’ Said Mazrodros through clenched teeth. ‘I’m sorry, Incubi, um…’ replied the slave behind the desk.‘Mazrodros.’‘I’m sorry, Incubi Mazrodros,’ continued the slave, ‘as I’ve…
Fast Fiction XX
Blind 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. Through the Eyes…
Stolen Sight
Everything was void. There was nothing. No time passed. No process active.++Initializing Reanimation Protocols.++++Physical reconstitution.... Complete.++++Cognitive Matrix... Re-established.++There was nothing, but there was thought. The flash of the weapon that…
Embalmed
Warden Ugresh stiffened his neck and pretended not to hear as another round of hoarse sobs started up from behind the door; it had been nearly a decan since they’d…
Eye of the Storm
When the madness came, it consumed Xiophe's world all at once.The Plunger groaned around her. The void vessel's superstructure twisted impossibly as a torrent of unreality washed over its metal…
Lament for the Archon’s Seventeenth Child
There is no room for sentiment in my position. I have always known this. Emotions – fear, wrath, boredom, affection – colour reality. One is blinded by them. My eyes…
Leviathan
Warden Deborah watched the runic wards along the door begin to fade. The old portal of dark basalt began to slide slowly, noiselessly aside. The stark lights of the ancient…
Stray
'So, Alai Therin Fallstar, ai'elethra of the Eshairr, what say you?'He looked up at the sightless face, the sockets where its eyes should have been puckered, bloody holes. Behind it,…
Sub Divo
I can no longer see the future, Idroelle thought, which means there must be no future. Blood surged through her body as she whipped the Nightwing into a mind-numbing turn. The fighter slashed through the clean, blue skies of Harkaxioc like a bloodied dagger. It was unerring and unrelenting, reflecting nothing of its pilot’s turmoil.
The Debate
It was the beginning of the third round of the fourth bout, the penultimate discourse being held that day in the packed nave of the Cathedral of the Inevitable Sacrifice,…
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