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Egg

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/Fast Fiction XXIV - The Enemy Within

Lethia had a friend. She didn’t exactly call it a “friend”, more like a “pet”. But where she lived, she didn’t have many friends, and she was glad to find the…

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Little Eye

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The towering halls of Vivessi Thricul were home to great and terrible works of art. Vivessi herself was the artist. She was a flesh sculptor, a blood painter, a composer…

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The Black Lilly Society

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Tuan stood straight against the heavy rain that rolled out in pulses over the landing strip. These storms were common on this moon, the mountainous Horlan Prime. Intense winds drove…

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The Young King

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Hands groped him.Exarch Rausdriel stood stiffly as he was divested of his armour, and nearly recoiled at the awful sensation of being touched, but he dutifully submitted as his bodysuit…

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Tasteful Pruning

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Shas’O Vrel knelt, inspecting a patch of filth. Rancid, tacky to the touch, spattered across the floor. Perhaps it was blood. Perhaps only blood. Fresh, even. That would be good.…

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Fors’d by Fate

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Asper doubted. His sweet Thusia, thin, trembling, ecstatic, who always had to wear a headscarf so no one would see stripes on her head. She stood next to him, pressing…

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Bond of Fire

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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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They Hunger

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‘No one thinks about the grades of corpse starch.’ A small, elderly man by the name of Esurian Semper told a group of trainees hoping to become Mortis Keepers, the…

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Peace in Hell

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFXXI - Unlikely Allies

Farseer Baranduin awoke to great unease, his soul feeling encompassed within a smothering shroud, burying any glimpses of the future he tried to manifest.'You’ll find your witchery ineffective,' came a…

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Monkeigh’s Best Friend

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFXXI - Unlikely Allies

The ground trembled underfoot, as long clawing shadows stalked his flight through the labyrinth of rubble and shattered bodies. The last of his craftworld kin, Eldrenniel, moved cautiously, driven by…

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