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💀 📣 This is your reminder that our Fast Fiction writing contest ends THIS FRIDAY NIGHT! Get to scribblin', boils and ghouls!
Learn more about our Warhammer 40,000 competition and enter before the end of Oct 31st ✍️
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Learn more about our Warhammer 40,000 competition and enter before the end of Oct 31st ✍️
40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...
October 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
💀 📣 This is your reminder that our Fast Fiction writing contest ends THIS FRIDAY NIGHT! Get to scribblin', boils and ghouls!
Learn more about our Warhammer 40,000 competition and enter before the end of Oct 31st ✍️
40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...
Learn more about our Warhammer 40,000 competition and enter before the end of Oct 31st ✍️
40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...
Two weeks left to enter our Warhammer 40,000 writing competition!
Https://40k.coldopenstories.com
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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 🎃
Get started on YOUR submission and enter before the deadline on Halloween night 🎃
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Two weeks left to enter our Warhammer 40,000 writing competition!
Https://40k.coldopenstories.com
Https://40k.coldopenstories.com
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Nightbound - a dark tale of unending night, shapeshifting horrors and the promise of dawn.
Produced by one & only @coldopenstories.bsky.social and performed by the talented @stephswanquills.bsky.social!
(And written by me.)
#booksky #audiobook #halloween
Produced by one & only @coldopenstories.bsky.social and performed by the talented @stephswanquills.bsky.social!
(And written by me.)
#booksky #audiobook #halloween
Nightbound - Original Worlds Audiobook
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October 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Nightbound - a dark tale of unending night, shapeshifting horrors and the promise of dawn.
Produced by one & only @coldopenstories.bsky.social and performed by the talented @stephswanquills.bsky.social!
(And written by me.)
#booksky #audiobook #halloween
Produced by one & only @coldopenstories.bsky.social and performed by the talented @stephswanquills.bsky.social!
(And written by me.)
#booksky #audiobook #halloween
✨ 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
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
✨ 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
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
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
✨ 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
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
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
✨ 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
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
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨ 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
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
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
✨ 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
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
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
✨ 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
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
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
✨ 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
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
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
✨ 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
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
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
✨ 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
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.
40k.coldopenstories.com
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.
40k.coldopenstories.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:21 AM
🌑 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.
40k.coldopenstories.com
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.
40k.coldopenstories.com
✍️ 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 🎃
Get started on YOUR submission and enter before the deadline on Halloween night 🎃
September 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
✍️ 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 🎃
Get started on YOUR submission and enter before the deadline on Halloween night 🎃
Reposted by ❄️ Cold Open Stories
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...
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...
Stories We LOVE 2023 - Cold Open Stories | 40k
Discover hundreds of hours of Warhammer 40,000 fanfiction, lore, and audio entertainment brought to you by fans and colleagues of Games Workshop and Black Library.
40k.coldopenstories.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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...
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...
Reposted by ❄️ Cold Open Stories
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
40k.coldopenstories.com/a-peaceful-t...
#Warhammer #BookSky
A Peaceful Transfer of Power - Cold Open Stories | 40k
Warhammer 40,000 Short Fiction Anthology: Tragic, harrowing, and bittersweet tales set in the 41st Millennium.
40k.coldopenstories.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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
40k.coldopenstories.com/a-peaceful-t...
#Warhammer #BookSky
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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/
Praetor Cestus, hero of Ullanor, favoured of Gulliman, hunts the Word Bearers as they flee the failed Siege of Terra.
40k.coldopenstories.com/irreversible/
Irreversible - Cold Open Stories | 40k
Warhammer 40,000 Short Fiction Anthology: Tragic, harrowing, and bittersweet tales set in the 41st Millennium.
40k.coldopenstories.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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/
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...
40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...
August 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
🪦 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...
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...
Enter the contest ✍️
40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...
August 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
⚠️ 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...
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...
Read the winning entry, the official selection, and editors choice now: 40k.coldopenstories.com/fast-fiction...
August 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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...
Read the winning entry, the official selection, and editors choice now: 40k.coldopenstories.com/fast-fiction...
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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
@coldopenstories.bsky.social
Read ‘Hagen’s Legacy’ this #FictionFriday.
👉 40k.coldopenstories.com/hagens-legacy/
#WarhammerCommunity
#Nerdlings
@coldopenstories.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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
@coldopenstories.bsky.social
Read ‘Hagen’s Legacy’ this #FictionFriday.
👉 40k.coldopenstories.com/hagens-legacy/
#WarhammerCommunity
#Nerdlings
@coldopenstories.bsky.social
🚨 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...
Enter now at 40k.coldopenstories.com/fiction/writ...
April 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🚨 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...
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...
🚨Now available: www.coldopenstories.com/where-a-fore...
April 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🌲 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...
🚨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...
🚨Now available: www.coldopenstories.com/what-she-did...
April 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🌘 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...
🚨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...
🚨Now available: www.coldopenstories.com/wayfinders-w...
April 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
🦎 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...
🚨Now available: www.coldopenstories.com/wayfinders-w...