
In the vast expanse of space, where time stretched like an endless ribbon and gravity was but a distant memory, the army of Control forged ahead under the iron-fisted leadership of Miles. Two hundred and fifty years had passed since they first set out to outmanoeuvre their enemies in the desolate wastes of Terra, and…

Shoreditch, London I did not realise how awful this was. The apparition beforehand, the constant worshipping of the gods of the fortune and success, was marred by an embarrassing scheme of endless gains. I did not realise how much has changed since the last fall; the downturn was bad. It took over five percent…

The silence in the Chryst Grove wasn’t merely an absence of sound; it was a presence. A dense, expectant hum vibrated just below human perception, the sound of spacetime itself being patiently interrogated. At its heart, perched impossibly still on the lowest bough of the Great Chryst Tree, slept Salma. A sparrow, yes, but one…

Earth, England, 2071 When they entered the British Museum at first, they thought that everything else, surrounding this place was imaginary. These things did not exist, please tell me so, Rita said to her team of scholars. They all laughed. We’re fucking anthroes not technos, brother. Remona said in response. They laughed and shrugged.…

The Mesh Learns to Dream. The climate mesh was no longer merely a filter of photons and moisture; it had become a vast, slow dreamer. Every photon it bent carried a nanoscopic shard of its own dreaming—data-lozenges that, when inhaled with the air, settled on retinas and dissolved into half-remembered futures. Citizens woke tasting colours…

Shortsman’s Shedtaker When Jonah Rhys—Shortsman—entered the museum, he fractured something. Not visibly. Not loudly. But something folded in the moment he arrived. A sense. A thread in the fabric. His tail flicked, shimmered, glowed at the tip in pulses that almost sang. He smiled like someone who had practiced the gesture a thousand…