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Ripped Away by Juliana S Mills voted Story of the Year 2015 by readers of Kraxon Magazine.

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Gertrude and the others were glad to finally return to The Sun Dancer. Their stolen gunboat, renamed The Tiger’s Eye II by Tristan, had not taken long for the crew of pirates to hijack, and they were delighted with the small arsenal of weaponry its former owner, a bounty hunter, had left them.

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Your chance to vote for #KraxonStoryOfTheYear 2015.

Members of  Chronicles Science fiction and fantasy community have three votes, which must be cast at the same time. votes cannot be added later.

The voting closes at 23:59 GMT on the 20th of December​.

Please use the Chronicles poll to cast your votes.

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Kraxon Magazine general submissions for 2016 are open.

•Genre – Science Fiction, Fantasy or related sub genres.
•Length – 1,000 (+/- 50) words excluding the title.
•Publication dates – 1st of the month throughout 2016.
•Payment – £30.
•Maturity rating – Family friendly.
•Inclusion in the Favourite Story of the Year 2016 competition – £100 prize.

Details, including the terms of publication can be found on the magazine submission page.

I first saw Daggart in some hick bar in Utah, slutty girls pawing over him, clamouring for attention. He didn’t look so special. He was grizzled, old. Overcoat like a cut-price Clint Eastwood, and he even wore a flea-bitten old cowboy hat.

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Gertrude stared at the tablet’s screen for a moment, scarcely believing that the Murovians had covered up the Emperor’s murder, or that Drusus was responsible, at least in part. Then she tossed the tablet onto the deck and crushed it beneath her boot.

Read Zodiac Eclipse – Escape

Dark blood flowed into the sand, a sluggish trail from the throat of a man in desert clothing. An unforgiving sun blazed in the sky, scavenger birds silhouetted as they circled over the body.

Read A Healing Touch

Each time travel event happened inside its own little dimensional bubble; no time traveler could be seen, or do anything to affect anything in the past. It was a tourist’s dream – or a scholar’s.

Read The Power of Love

Tenth Zodiac Eclipse story written by Thaddeus White is now online.

Gertrude eyed the stranger for a long time. He seemed content to watch her through the augmented vision of his mask, and was in no rush to start the hand-to-hand fight he knew was coming. His species was an utter mystery to her.

Read Zodiac Eclipse – Gunboat

Sixth and final special submission window for 2015 is now open. Details are on the submissions page.

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