Flashback story – Clarisse du Volde

This is a story submitted as part of the Flashback week competition. It’s written by Clarissa Marie and is from a game played on www.roleplayer.me.

It is always asked of me, do I remember my first taste of human blood? I cannot help but shudder, but I do remember it. It isn’t fondly simply because I nearly revealed my true nature to the world. I was clumsy in my first days, I hadn’t the faintest idea of what on earth to do. How could I? I had stormed off like a pigheaded fool and left Colin to burn in the flames of our burning cottage. My rage was a thing not to be trifled with and after three years of marriage, I’d had enough. Read More

Flashback story – Lawrence Trisees

This is a story submitted as part of the Flashback week competition. It’s written by Ryan Eames, the roleplaying game is Blue Dwarf.

Lawrence Trisees

The star port bustled with thousands upon thousands of people making ways between bars, restaurants, starship gates and seating areas. It was the busiest star port in Jupiter’s orbit and served nearly the entirety of it’s tourism branch and the mining corporation. Lawrence Trisees, former mental technology specialist of the JMC Blue Dwarf, stood by Gate 44b having transferred himself from the ship a number of years ago. Read More

Flashback story – Rage!

This is a story submitted as part of the Flashback week competition. It’s a Star Trek story written by Chas Hammer. 

Rage!

Rage settled across Chas’ heart as he caressed the strands of her red hair, brushing away the mud. There was nothing that could be done. Her skin faded to white. The glow of life left her eyes.

Thump! Another impact. Crack! A pulse of energy surges past.

“Sir, they are getting closer.”

Chas looked up blankly at the ensign, whose name he did not know.

“Sir?” The ensign continued, a hint of desperation in his voice.

Chas looked back at the body and rolled her onto her side, removing the small Type 1 phaser concealed in her uniform waistband before placing it in his own. Read More

Flashback story – Commander Dietrich Vonrose

This is a story submitted as part of the Flashback week competition. It’s a Star Trek story written by Roman Gitlarz, the roleplaying game is USS Discovery on Star Trek Borderlands. 

Commander Dietrich Vonrose

October 4, 2409

Dietrich smiled as he made his way through the ship’s corridors.  The slight smile on his face and the bounce in his step visually demonstrated the pleasure which he felt, and it wasn’t in regard to his work earlier in the day.  After all, being XO of a starship was not anything to sneeze at.  He had countless duty rosters to approve, systems reports to analyze, and rounds to make… not to mention his Bridge duty.  His contentment was a result of the game of poker which he played regularly with his crewmates on Friday nights… and which he had just won minutes earlier. Read More

Flashback story – Fredda, Lady Winter

This is a story submitted as part of the Flashback week competition. It’s written by Charlotte Willow-Edwards from the roleplaying game Shattered Realities.

Fredda, Lady Winter

The bitch was dead.

Dead, or at least gone forever. It seemed to be generally accepted now and she hoped, she desperately hoped, that it was true. There was no place in the world for that one.

While Lady Winter had no illusions about how she herself was viewed, she was surely a shining light in comparison to the pretty little girl who could, and had, ripped out human souls and ruined lives in a moment’s pique. Pretty child in her little pink dress, with her simpering smile and her recently assumed false air of servility. All an act to hide the demon beneath. Read More