Author
Will Shadbolt
The Mire's Minions
Jess watched her hands move, watched herself step toward the maimed pilot, watched herself slit his throat in a single gesture--and she did none of it. The Mire controlled her every move. The supercomputer had taken over her body, buried her own consciousness, and made her a…
The True History of the Betan Conversion
When the Earth was old and the planet Beta-Centauri-12 was young, the good god sent his son Peter to the new world. He was a part of the first expedition to the solar system, one of the first humans to step on the alien ground. Peter found new life there, which he in his…
The Chosen Ones
Demons slaughtered the first chosen one. The monsters appeared one autumn day, when the leaves turned red. Soon forests, fields, hamlets, nations fell under the might of their horde. In response, the goddess of those lands marked a newborn baby as her champion. When the chosen…
Chrysalis
When our ship crash landed on the strange planet, the natives immediately captured us. The Earthlings, as they called themselves, took apart our rocket, our only way home, without a second thought, scouring the technology for clues to advance themselves. "It's like a honeycomb,"…
In the Minotaur's Labyrinth
Aristedes killed the beast. He had survived longer than his other sacrificial comrades--the minotaur's meals-- survived long enough to grow used to the labyrinth's darkness. His nose and ears were now his world. So, when he heard the monster's soft grunts and inhaled its awful…
In the Minotaur's Labyrinth
Aristedes killed the beast. He had survived longer than his other sacrificial comrades--the minotaur's meals-- survived long enough to grow used to the labyrinth's darkness. His nose and ears were now his world. So, when he heard the monster's soft grunts and inhaled its awful…