Doran walked into the ritual chamber, feeling the warmth of the guttering torches all around that released choking black smoke into the atmosphere. He felt the gooseflesh on the front of his naked body relax while it remained on his back, reacting to the chill air of the desert night outside.
He walked to the bull [...]
The Tale of Yideehg and Nliurg
The brothers of the crimson fist are known by many names, most of which have become curse words in the time since their most dreadful existence – I shall not offend you with any of them.
Following the fall, many robber barons and slum lords rose, as well as some men [...]
The rats were smarter than we expected.
The higher ups in the government knew all about them, had done for years – there were rats in the sewers of London, strange rats, big as a dog and so white as to be almost translucent. Ghost rats.
They took people, but they were smart – only went for [...]
Those accursed things do not understand the truth, the reality of the situation the real strength of the LORD of the STAR in the HEAVENS, that great burning orb that watches over us all, grants us heat and light. They think it is just a thing, an object in the sky that has no choice [...]
Koric smiled, felt the hummingbird flying in his stomach, closed his eyes, and spurred on his horse.
Gorik’s bane was dimly visible far ahead in the pre-dawn grey, that old bluff that had seen so much death in so many battles. Koric spurred his horse and the great roan burst into a gallop. Wind felt through [...]
The sun sets, and darkness spreads over the city, and I become free.
My comrades and I melt out from our diurnal habitats, the little spaces between oil drums and under trash and beside the corpses of nameless, homeless men. We stretch out and groan as we reach our full potential sizes, and we drift through [...]
The snakes weren’t very large, but they were extremely numerous.
It was in the middle of the twenty-first century when they started to come back. They swam through the sea in incalculable swarms, forming huge twisting corkscrews that floated over the surface. They rolled as they swam, each one getting a turn on the surface as [...]
Rains of blood fell in little rivulets, gathering in crevasses and running down hills, joining up with streams, forming little rivers, then larger waterways, cutting across the surface.
Any who drank it died. It was a poison. No-one knew what had happened to the water, the gods had seemingly taken it away. The people took to [...]
They willed it.
And when the high Primarchs will something, there ain’t a thing anyone can do to stop it.
We live quiet lives. We think they’re noisy, raucous, full of things to do and feel, sitting in our little hedonistic circles going from one sensory impulse to the next. But that’s nothing, that’s sedate compared to [...]
As the sun sank once more, brought low again by the monstrous dragons of night, a clamour arose in the halls across the land. Feasting and celebrations, dancing and drinking, the noise of speech and story telling, the smell of wood smoke, all inside was light and warm as a midsummer day. None thought of [...]