Corporal Dia Zephyr assumed it was just another drill, no more than a Navy tradition, a rite of passage for the recruits. She expected a spacewalk, maybe a shooting game inside an asteroid field, skimming along the Collective's border before turning back to the Empire's space.After all, this was what they knew, what everyone expected.But that's not what happened.Highest ranks:[27 in #Science Fiction - 25 in #Horror 10-01-2018]…
Placed on the northern hemisphere the Sea of Ember is a world of ice and stone, a land of fire and storms.Uncanny tempests sweep across the rocky terrain, rising and spreading ashes from dozens of active volcanoes disseminated everywhere in the continent.However, during winter, sudden snowstorms, almost as lethal as the rivers of magma scorching this plagued realm, turn the land into a literal hell.That's when Lithoniel's journey begins, during the last weeks of Spring.It should have been a hunting expedition, a short trip not far from the tribe's territory.Yet, when the Nightstalker, the tribe's chief hunter, decides to bring them in an unexplored area of the Asp ridge, Lithoniel has to decide if she can be something different from the outcast she had been for all her life.But can a fledgling hunter, an outsider in her own tribe be a leader?------FIRST DRAFT-----…
Do you know what the problem with the people around you is?They die.Maybe you think it's because of the line of work they have chosen, a twisted turn of fate or very bad luck, but you are still here, aren't you?The city can rot, the world can burn, but you are still standing. Against all the odds you are still alive.Fate it's an interesting thing, isn't it?But maybe it isn't; maybe it's not fate at all.Maybe it's only you.Have you ever thought about that? Have you ever thought that maybe they might've been right all along? Have you ever thought you are cursed?Only, the target of that bad luck isn't yourself but whoever has the misfortune to come into contact with you.You are like the carrier of a plague, spreading the contagion.A walking calamity that kills everything it touches.------FIRST DRAFT-----WARNING: Irregular update…