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Read more about the article A Traitor Twice Over

A Traitor Twice Over

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFXII - Traitors

Chained to the chair in the dimly lit cellar with the Ork Warboss looming over me, I knew I had about a minute to live. Maybe longer if I was really unlucky.

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Six For One

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Created by potrace 1.16, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2019 Overhead burned a hot white star that made the heat rise from the pavement in sheets of crystal-white flame. A thick…

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Read more about the article Motes Dancing In The Silver Light

Motes Dancing In The Silver Light

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The Engines of Vaul will smite them, and bring fire upon them, and in agony they will depart this realm, their souls screaming into the black void that awaits their…

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Read more about the article The Transgression

The Transgression

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFXI - Back From The Dead

The messenger drone had plummeted from the sky arresting its fall seconds before crashing into the concourse paving. It had inserted needles, interrogated her implants and scanned Por’El’Tau’Lian’s retinas before…

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Read more about the article The High Branches of Alder

The High Branches of Alder

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‘I will tell you a tale,’ said the stranger, holding his hands out towards the fire. ‘In gratitude for your hospitality.’Sharp faces leant forward into the circle of firelight. The…

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The Deep Halls

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This grim occupation hadn’t been one Lesthel would have chosen. Through his life, Lesthel has been a soldier, a miner, a thief, a corsair and a murderer. It wasn’t until the council sentenced him to life in the deep halls that he’d found his true calling.

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Read more about the article Reaping Agony

Reaping Agony

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Vilyxnar ran a pallid, claw-tipped hand through his greasy white hair. He tapped the runes on the lower console, resetting the device with his other two hands. 

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Read more about the article Grandpapa’s Visit

Grandpapa’s Visit

  • Post category:Anthology IX/Short Fiction

I crawl out of the nest of my sleeping brothers and sisters, taking care not to wake any of them. I'm good at that, moving quietly, making myself unseen and…

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Read more about the article The Price of Power

The Price of Power

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFX - Was It Worth It

Archon. It is a word that radiates power. Even the slave races comprehend it, in a fashion. Not the intricacies of our tongue, of course. But they understand. With its…

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Read more about the article What Price Conviction?

What Price Conviction?

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFX - Was It Worth It

Jaryon lay sweating, his fitful mind questing for the calm of the craftworld. He felt himself a discordant note without its song, an aberration marring some foreign melody. The world…

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