NewMyths Magazine Issue #45 is now live:
https://sites.google.com/a/newmyths.com/nmwebsite/past-issues/2018/issue-45
Visit strange new worlds, and share in startling adventures:
"Gentleman's Agreement" by Tom Olbert -- Excerpt:
The entire sand ship trembled on its
massive treads as the sand crawler’s forward limbs, like the gigantic legs of
some nightmarish arachnid crushed the upper framework. Nicholas’s blood boiled. Men plummeted to their deaths from the radar mounts
and gun turrets, screaming as they were smashed like insects against the
buckling metal hull or swallowed up into the churning desert sands.
The
writhing hydra-like organism swallowed several of the native workers even as
they fired laser turrets from the overhanging gantries. Nicholas lunged for one of the upper turrets
as the gunner’s scream was muffled, the man’s legs kicking in mid-air as he was
seized by one of the lashing triple-pronged tongues of the great beast and
sucked into one of its three-sided mouths. Nicholas roared in impotent rage as
he fired and fired, hoping desperately for a lucky shot at one of the damnable
titan’s neural nodes.
The
crawler’s roar reminded Nicholas of a star destroyer’s atmosphere venting into
space as its bulkheads gave way under a laser barrage. Feeling the support platform give way under
him, Nicholas leapt from the gantry, grabbing a railing along a walkway, and
slid down a support strut to the deck.
He struggled to hang onto the guard rail, his boots sliding over the
tilting deck. *******
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