Lost Leader

“Hey, wake up.” Elkay slowly opened his eyes. For the first time in ages, he wasn’t in pain. He felt uncomfortable, but he was otherwise alive. The voice that had spoken to him came from his left, so that was the direction Elkay looked in. “You’re not having a good week, are you?” the yellow … Read more

Dear Retvik, Right now, I hurt all over. To the point that I cannot remember your contact details. Or anyone’s contact details really. … This note will probably never find you. The same way I will probably never be found. What has happened to me over the last week has been soul-destroying. I am no … Read more

There were bodies everywhere. Bloody, tattered, beaten bodies. Young bodies and old bodies. About twenty in total. And standing in the middle of them was a hideous monster, weeping in realisation at what it had done. Elkay had only wanted help. As he’d climbed the mountain, the pain had trickled back into his system, his … Read more

After what had felt like an eternity of trudging through marshlands and mud, Elkay finally found a hint of civilization. The small logging village of Thredendra may have been in Rethan territory but its population was a strange mixture of Rethans, Skyans and Vrekans, all working together on providing renewable wood products for the other … Read more

Elkay stared at the corpse in front of him. The freshly killed body of a young alogan was sitting there, its guts half-eaten and hanging out, subtly taunting him. Elkay wasn’t sure why he felt the way he did. It wasn’t the act of killing the alogan that was disturbing Elkay, it was the fact … Read more

The pyrex canister had been sealed up and was now ready for transport. The flight staff, two pilots, a medic and two nurses, stood by as they watched a crew of ten Ksithans haul the canister into the back of the nosomic shuttle. “That is… most unusual…” Darik, the younger of the two pilots, muttered … Read more

The screams echoed through the building as medics raced through, trying to seek its source. What had once been pristine white hallways were now caked with something that smelled like blood but had the consistency of slime and jelly. None of them had any idea whether it was toxic or not, so hazardous material suits … Read more

The first thing Elkay noticed as he woke up was the sharp scent of blood and bleach. Both smells were there, with the bleach being far, far stronger, but there was definitely a lot of blood buried underneath the chlorine. The second thing Elkay noticed was that everything was white. Mainly the ceiling above him. … Read more