Modes of Transport (a Kaos Army short story)

The light flashed, merrily. They always did. Anything that threw a spanner in the works seemed to be happy about it. Sirens of doom would sing joyously. Beacons of battle would blaze like a rock concert. This squiggly iridescent lamp doing its best...

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Executive decisions Chapter 13

The light was blinding. Golden, pure rays filled the room, glowing through his closed eyelids. Cool breeze whispered upon his skin. Pleasant. Welcoming. Safe. "Father?" He struggled to open his eyes, the brightness assaulting him at the...

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Hell on Earth. Chapter 7

Rap and Rave found Anar surrounded by dusty old books, madly flipping through the aged pages, stabbing his neat fingernails at random pictures and passages, muttering to himself. "I always knew he was a few digestives short of a packet," Rave rumbled,...

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The Book of Warlock 7. Magic vs Magick.

Lucinder was just in time for lunch. The travelling party had been sipping tea and eating biscuits when she had been assaulted by those horrible gnoll creatures. The group was travelling light, by the looks of things, as they weren't carrying much in...

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The Book of Warlock 19. No good deed goes unpunished.

The gathered goblins out in the churned, muddied fields below their citadel were concerned to say the least upon the rumbling and shaking that occurred as blue light lit up the snow dusted mountain that they called home. They watched helplessly as...

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Hell on Earth. Chapter 11

"SNAP!" Anar woke with a start. He rubbed his eyes and his snout. What were those dinosaurs up to now? Groggily, he kicked away his quilt and peered through his privacy curtains. Rap and Rave were playing card games on the coffee table. Anar...

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Hell on Earth. Chapter 10

He careered round the corner of the top floor, skidding at the top of the stairs, launching himself atop the narrow handrail and sliding down at breakneck speed, the smooth material of his study robes accelerating him. He'd have looked much more cool...

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Die A Thousand Deaths

'Everyone has secret words that can save them. Everyone has secret words that can kill them.' (Unknown) "So they weren't slaves?" "Not technically," Fran's best friend had answered. "I'll be gosh-darned," the jackal had shaken her head....

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Cockroach Motherfuckers

"There's two kinds of work in the world." Fran's roommate was a communist. "First, there's work-that-stays." She was also a writer. "Then, there's work-that-goes-away." The jackal didn't write, herself, but she'd asked about what made her roommate...

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Hell on Earth. Chapter 17

"Oh, I do hope he's ok, poor lamb," Rap sighed, chewing the toffee from a toffee apple. "Poor lamb?!" Rave exclaimed, battling to separate his teeth, "he's a sixteen-years old soon-to-be minion of Hell, not a defenceless toddler!" Rap looked sad,...

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By A Thousand Cuts

"People get them without thinking." Fran and her roommate were watching her pets chasing each other around their living room. "They get them for their kids." "That's the thing!" she concurred. "They think of animals as lesser lifeforms than people for...

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* * * "So she never got to finish it," Fran's best friend had told her. "Halfway through," the jackal had shaken her head. "They wrote the rest based on her notes," her best friend had gone on. "I hate that." "You do?" Fran had tilted her...

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