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Abba’s apartment is a puzzle-lock. If he could solve it, he could save his world. There were three rooms in Abba’s apartment. The first room was Abba’s bedroom. It was just big enough for a sleeping mat to stretch out and touch all four walls. Sometimes Abba’s wife could also be found in the bedroom.…

Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. But they also say that a mother can hear the screams of their child dying in wars on the rim of the tenth sphere expansion hundreds of lightyears away, if only in her dreams. And this is no ordinary child. Its…

Image Credit: Space Wolves: Wolf Guard by HarryOsborn A man came through the door and struggled to close it against the freezing wind. In the myths of the men of the hall, he would have been a giant: almost as broad across as he was tall. He wore a bear skin across his shoulders, and…

The old mansion, isolated all the way out in the hills, certainly suited the reclusive artist stereotype, but not the starving one. It had taken several back roads and then a final, switch backing hike up this hill to arrive at her front door. Few but the most esteemed members of the art world knew…

Petey walks the halls of the Crucible, his bare feet deftly avoiding piles of rubble, singing nonsensically to himself. When he comes to a corridor he has been along previously, he makes a game of stepping in his own footprints to avoid further disrupting the thick layer of dust. He waves hello to the Gates…

A single mote of dust dislodges from the chamber’s ceiling. It does not follow the crazed, random path of loops and bends expected of such a mote, because there were no micro-currents of air flowing in the sealed environment of the crypt. Instead it makes a slow but direct path to the pristine metal floor.…

The assailing wind was so cold at the ridge of the valley that Yorrik arl Urberon can’t feel the heat of the piss staining his trousers. It wouldn’t do for his men to see steam rising from the crotch of their commander and seasoned warrior, but he could’ve used any little thing to raise his…

The paved square of the town is small. Anya is no more than twenty paces from the boy, who had obviously been stewing on her arrival for some time despite the early morning hour. But the multi-storey apartments, with their gabled, thatched , added a colosseum like atmosphere and gave the square a larger sense…