A character saga
Read 4 complete PicWar fantasy battle stories featuring Semper Fi across different rivals and endings.
The saga shelf
Each short stands alone, but together they trace how this character changes when the rival and circumstances shift.
The coral forest swayed in a slow, ancient rhythm, as if the whole ocean had been holding its breath for centuries and only now remembered how to exhale. Light fell through the water in columns, each one a ladder of gold…
Read the storyThe rain had been falling for six minutes when the two of them found each other in the wreckage of the warehouse district. Semper Fi stood ankle-deep in ash, the stub of his cigar glowing orange against the gray…
Read the storyVengeance Across the Ashen Square The smoke from Semper Fi's cigar coiled upward like a serpent of grey judgment as he strolled across the shattered plaza, his boots crunching glass and spent brass beneath a sky the…
Read the storyThe yellow sphere of a man—Semper Fi—stood in the middle of a purple haze, cigar clamped between his grinning teeth, watching smoke curl and twist in impossible patterns that had nothing to do with his own stogey. Around…
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