The train is vast.
It stretches from pole to pole of the vast blue sphere of Jarradhoon, a great ring of synthetic diamond constructed by teh native life of the world. A thin sliver of track supported on hundred kilometre high pillars, and at the top the great train spins.
It was thought at first to be [...]
Sorry guys, I’ve got a massive Archaeology field trip on Friday, so there will probably be no Friday story this week. I’ll see if I can get another one up over the weekend as recompense.
+++ An Extract from Shckun Nk’thron’Kar, (248595 AS) The Devourer – Most Deadly Of Interstellar Species, Karthram university press: Jigorn; Planet RAktoosh; Lor-kan system; Outer Magellanic Cloud. +++
It was bred to devour.
It consisted of thousands of tiny individual cells that swarmed across it’s prey. But although it appeared to be multiple individuals, and the individual [...]
The Warboar growled, it’s huge mane or razor-sharp spines rippling as it spat saliva throughout the clearing, shaking its head with rage, small red eyes rolling.
Gor stood before it, holding his short spear, it’s flint head glistening with blood scored from his previous clashes with his foe. He was not big or strong – at [...]
He cold not look up. The weight on his head forced him to look forwards.
It was a hat, wide of brim with a circular glass tube filled with a heavy liquid he did not know the name of. Some sort of metal. The hat ensured he could not tilt his head up or down, but [...]
Evan stared out at the bleak expanse, the black half-mile high towers in the distance, twisting upwards and inwards like the ribcage of some extinct monstrosity.
The towers were hollow and home to many thousands of people, using mirrors and strange magicks to grow food without soil, enough to ensure that none of them would ever [...]
We have lived millennia under the tyranny of the namers.
I was born to the title of Gellar Wynter, which in the ancient tongue of the namers means noble son of the motherland, the nation of Terraga. I lived and worked at my king’s behest, but all knew that the king worked the will of the [...]
I’m a superhero. And today, I’m going to kill one hundred and ten thousand people.
My powers range from the flashy and impressive to the very, very simple. I can fly at thirty times the speed of sound, easily getting me into low orbit. I can lift one hundred and fifty billion tons of solid rock [...]
It creaked noisily and rhythmically. I didn’t know there was so much steel in the thing, but as the candelabra swung in the wind from the broken windows it produced a high pitched whine. It reminded me of the start of an old Sergio Leone film I saw once many years ago. I don’t know [...]
Sorry about the lack of story yesterday. I accidentally started writing a short story instead, and ran out of time :O
The sun seemed strange that day.
I couldn’t put a finger on why. Perhaps it was an omen from the gods, a message warning of the dark times ahead. If so, the gods are truly despicable [...]