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Read more about the article The Tale Of The Mirror Unfettered

The Tale Of The Mirror Unfettered

  • Post category:Anthology III/Short Fiction

There is a place that exists outside the edge of reality, accessible to a chosen few of great power and strength. It exists at the edge of imagination and sanity,…

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Read more about the article Arena Of Blood!

Arena Of Blood!

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Heatwaves shimmered off the blood soaked sand, while severed body parts lay scattered across the arena floor, and squig rats sniffed around the edges for the smaller bits of visceral.…

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Afanc

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The ship was quiet. Not silent, for it creaked and groaned as power was withdrawn and whole sections of it slowly cooled under the dull red of emergency lumens. She…

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Read more about the article A Matter Of Time

A Matter Of Time

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Inquisitor Syman Kant allowed himself a brief moment to watch the single bead of sweat work its way down Prewitt’s furrowed brow.'Yes, it’s definitely bad,' Bellane Friemann commented, a half-smile…

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Read more about the article Awoken

Awoken

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In the beginning there was darkness, and from it, a light was born. No man can say when exactly the first star lit up, but soon after, countless more did follow. When…

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Read more about the article The Dark Stabba

The Dark Stabba

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Kommando Kaptin Gron may have been built like a grox, but currently he was squeezing through the pitch-black air vent like an unwilling grot oiler crammed into a trukk exhaust.…

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Read more about the article Abomination

Abomination

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The klaxon’s call rises through the factory like the bellowing of an enraged giant, summoning the teaming millions who cling to life among the Rez-stacks to their labours. My eyes…

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Read more about the article An End to Inequity

An End to Inequity

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'Everyone can see it.... the... the... inequality.' The words sputtered out of Evara’s mouth into the upturned face of the clergyman, as he hung from a meat hook speared through his shin. 

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Read more about the article Fire Into Water

Fire Into Water

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[Onboard the Cargo Ship 'Relentless Dawn’] [2 rotaa until The Ceremony] Little things. Warm blood pulsing its way out of a split lip. Licking it away and tasting salt and copper. The hard bone…

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Read more about the article A Mind Of Their Own

A Mind Of Their Own

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‘PREY. KILL. BLOOD.’ Gorger storms through the deep jungle alongside his pack, the blood in his veins boiling like acid. ‘DEVOUR!’His mind is filled with a singular thought, the urge…

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