A Second for Yourself
A story of the Last World by Nick Patrick ——— Words are heavier in the dark. I roll onto my side, stretching an arm over and past her slight naked figure. My pistol is still under the pillow despite our earlier efforts to shake it loose. She stirs a little and grasps my [...]
The History of Syrk
Atamus Syrk was not a gentleman to forget, even if he was rarely a gentleman. At the age of 35 he had parlayed a small inheritance into enough money to start the Syrk Mining Company. He was honest but not overly so. He payed his workers well and by paying his accountant a little too [...]
Targa Riots
As told by Andi Anagni Of course when I say Targa, I mean Field Targa, as regulated by the Imperial Targa Federation. I know there are blokes who think Running Targa is better, and they’re all about Targa Union and that, but I’m Imperial through and through, and I never bother with what the Outliers do. [...]
Nebuchadnezzar’s Revenge
Nebuchadnezzar had been down on his luck for a while when he hatched his plot to destroy the Laravinthian consul’s frigate one night. He had been slighted by the consul some years previous and long desired to have his revenge. What the slight had been is difficult to say, even Nebuchadnezzar was a little foggy on [...]
Battle of the Three Fleets
Battle of the Three Fleets, a Memoir. By Jackson Sato Trevelyan I was serving aboard the old Courage as a Gunner’s Mate on the upper port midship four incher. We were a crew of five, The Gun Captain, the Gunner, who actually sighted the old girl, me, and the two loaders. The Gun Captain read off the [...]
The Lay of the Wanderer
Part 1 “This, then is the Curse of the Historian: never to be able to truly remember, and never to be able to completely forget.” THIS IS the Place: the where is here; THIS IS the Time: the when is now; THIS IS the Person: the who is I; THIS IS the Act: the what is [...]
The Killing of Jorge
A Story of the Last World by David Pilling In the aftermath of the technology wars that wracked our world and destroyed all traces of earlier civilization, there rose an Empire. Formed by a coalition of warrior tribes, the Namoto Empire became the strongest of the primitive nations that slowly reclaimed the ruined earth. Like all Empires, the Namoto [...]
