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✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨
We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward?
Read now at coldopenstories.com
#ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing
✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨
We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward?
Read now at coldopenstories.com
#ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing
✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨
We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward?
Read now at coldopenstories.com
#ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing
✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨
We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward?
Read now at coldopenstories.com
#ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing
✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨
We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward?
Read now at coldopenstories.com
#ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing
✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨
We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward?
Read now at coldopenstories.com
#ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing
✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨
We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward?
Read now at coldopenstories.com
#ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing
✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨
We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward?
Read now at coldopenstories.com
#ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing
✨ NEW STORY ALERT ✨
We're releasing NINE new stories this month for spooky season - all of which ask the same question: when the past won’t let go, how do you move forward?
Read now at coldopenstories.com
#ColdOpenStories #NewFiction #ShortFiction #IndiePublishing
🌑 Night Mode has arrived! 🌑
The site now has a brand-new Night (Lord) Mode option for easy reading in the dark. No more straining your eyes in low light — just click the little moon icon in the bottom right corner and let the shadows take over.
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✍️ The longest-running Warhammer 40,000 Fast Fiction competition is back — and we’re thrilled to announce our community judge for this edition: Gabriel of Fenris Workshop (@fenrisworkshop on Instagram).
Get started on YOUR submission and enter before the deadline on Halloween night 🎃
Looking at the @coldopenstories.bsky.social 2023 Editors' Pick- and I have TWO stories that the editors like.
One is DI YU (Chinese for HELL).
The other one is The Damned Hound.
Also check out the stories too!
40k.coldopenstories.com/stories-we-l...
After marinading in the #BlackLibrary for the past year, it was time to try writing some! Very proud my story “A Peaceful Transfer of Power” was an Editor’s Choice in the latest @coldopenstories.bsky.social flash fiction competition. 🤘
40k.coldopenstories.com/a-peaceful-t...
#Warhammer #BookSky
My latest #Warhammer40k Fast Fiction, "Irreversible" has been published by @coldopenstories.bsky.social as part of The Scouring competition.
Praetor Cestus, hero of Ullanor, favoured of Gulliman, hunts the Word Bearers as they flee the failed Siege of Terra.
40k.coldopenstories.com/irreversible/
🪦 After a long silence, where only echoes and haunted things roamed the crypt, the *Sanctum Librarium* is once more accepting submissions. We’re calling on aspiring authors from across the galaxy to share bold, character-driven...
40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...
⚠️ Not every war is fought across trenches or void-choked battlefields. Some conflicts begin quietly. In the hidden corners of the soul. In whispers behind locked doors. In the hesitation before the trigger is pulled.
Enter the contest ✍️
40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...
Victory is forged in words ✍️ The winner of our latest Fast Fiction contest has been crowned — marking the end of our competition on The Scouring!
Read the winning entry, the official selection, and editors choice now: 40k.coldopenstories.com/fast-fiction...
Outstanding work! Looking forward to it!
21.06.2025 01:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A lone Imperial Fist space marine against a hive ship full of biological horrors. Can he prevail against the odds and avenge his fallen battle brothers?
Read ‘Hagen’s Legacy’ this #FictionFriday.
👉 40k.coldopenstories.com/hagens-legacy/
#WarhammerCommunity
#Nerdlings
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🚨 Submissions are open once again for the internet’s LONGEST RUNNING #Warhammer Fast Fiction competition. Join aspiring scribes, each testing their storytelling skills by crafting gripping, character-rich tales within 1,000 words.
Enter now at 40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...
🌲 On Mars, ecologists watch over a manmade forest inside a biodome. But when a figure from Slavic folklore begins appearing among the pines, they realize the forest may be protected by something far older—and far less human—than science.
🚨Now available: www.coldopenstories.com/where-a-fore...
🌘 A shattered moon bleeds in the sky. Humanity prays to the void. In this poetic and haunting tale of cosmic horror and rebellion, one woman flees the cult she helped build—taking with her a child destined for sacrifice.
🚨Now available: www.coldopenstories.com/what-she-did...
🦎 Spanning three generations, this epic sci-fi saga follows Captains Stone, Bazin, and Jones as they battle a terrifying enemy that mimics humanity’s every move. To win, they must become the one thing the enemy can’t copy: unpredictable.
🚨Now available: www.coldopenstories.com/wayfinders-w...
✉️ The survival of humanity depends on one fragile supply line. Haunted by his brother’s death, Lieutenant Williams joins the fleet’s most notorious pilot—Captain Sato, callsign Charon—for a high-risk supply run through alien-held skies.
🚨Now available: www.coldopenstories.com/last-vital-l...
Humbly pleased to have won a featured slot in @coldopenstories.bsky.social latest fast fiction writing contest.
My thanks for including my submission, Roar
40k.coldopenstories.com/roar/
Interested in entering the contest? Battle against the sharpest minds and boldest voices against a relentless constraint — word count. Submissions for Fast Fiction XXIII are now open as well ✍️
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📣 The results are in - read the *No Limits* winners from the longest-running Warhammer community writing competition! Now available online at 40k.coldopenstories.com
09.03.2025 19:23 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
First flash fiction I had published. Available in print from @coldopenstories.bsky.social - 40k.coldopenstories.com/a-taste-of-x...
and narrated by A Vox in the Void - www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNFg...
Appreciate the distinction! We’ve built up an incredible community of authors pushing the envelope of the setting - thanks for giving them some love 🖤
26.02.2025 17:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My most popular fast fiction has passed 500 hits and is nearing 600. For a story of a thousand words, that's pretty awesome. 🤯
Ad Finitum was published on @coldopenstories.bsky.social as part of the "Everything Ends" FF competition and it tells the story of the final moments of the Chaos Gods. 💀
