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2 free-to-read stories tagged “Redemption”

Godmeat

Martin Cahill Lightspeed 2018 ShortStory Fantasy Apocalypse 7,012 words

To return to power, the godlike Hollow Ones recruit Spear to kill the Great Beasts that hold the laws of reality in place, and Hark to cook them so they can absorb their power. Only one remains before the end of the world as they know it.

Dark FantasyRedemptionVisceral

Content warnings 3

body-horrorgoreviolence

Spinning Shadow

Margaret Ronald BCS 2023 ShortStory Fantasy 4,949 words

"Tarma had only just begun the Widow Fenton’s flax when the Shadow Undying rose once more. At first she thought that the shutter on the upper window must have come unwedged, since the light shouldn’t have failed so early in the day. But the unholy chanting...

Social SatireRedemptionDarkly Comic

Content warnings 1

death