Europan sniper getting a bead on a lone enemy ridge walker, closing one eye, breathing in, gently squeezing the trigger, and firing 4,643 armor-piercing rounds, 132 incendiary rounds, 201 railgun slugs, and 152 rocket-propelled grenades

When we got home, they held parades for us. Gave us shining synth-unbiunium medals and called us heroes. They had no idea - no idea about what that word meant on Europa. The real heroes were 5 hard years of hypership travel back, forever encased in ice.

Can't stand the eco freaks they keep sending down to study the howlers. Buddy, you see one of those things, you don't stare at it, you run. And if you can't run, you fight back. And if you can't do that, well, you can pray, but we all know Jove stopped listening

Offmooner cook accidentally said "get it while it's hot" and the whole barracks wouldn't let him hear the end of it. Got so bad he had to be transferred to a tunnel station to serve drillers who surface once a quarter-cycle if at all

New arrival says he saw Old Man Winter take out a yeti rampaging through one of the northern trenches. Cracked its jaw clean open with a tunneling pick

They call it ice madness, but when your world is ice, it starts seeming like the logical conclusion.

War tourists posting selfies of their ghostly complexion after a day in the neutral zone, call that stolen pallor

When the Buddha originally contemplated the impermanence of all things, it can't be said that he was aware of the bitter war that would devour Jupiter's icy moon

Everybody's got a different idea of what all this is for. Corpo shills see it as a credit stream. Journos want it to mean something about society. I reckon my CO just wants me to kill and drill. Me, I don't know anything about all that, but to me? What's it really for? Ever, baby

regarding THE WAR-TORN ICE MOON EUROPA... here is some clarity and commentary on both the situation and the fiction. i am greatly humbled and alarmed by the reaction and contributions from so many fans, writers, artists, and fucking nasa. WF.

What no one tells you is that nutrition facts are based on averages. The median Coke has barely any sugar in it at all. But every hundred batches or so, they really load one up

It's laundry day, so I had to wear my most ill-fitted armor to knight school. It was horrible. By second lecture I'd earned the nickname "He of Protections Most Meagre"

(POINT AND CLICK GAME) I'm out of God's Favor. I can't do that yet. I probably can't do that until I have more of God's Favor. I dunno... better restock on God's Favor before I try that.

When I'm inventing a new type of sandwich, that's the real me

I dislike when people smash the clove like that. You are hurting it. In my hometown, we approach the clove as an equal and say, "Hello, garlic. I am very hungry. Would you come undone for me?" Then, if it remains wrapped, we would engage in mindful breathing

My dream computer has a physical button labeled "No, and never ask me this again" that causes a small but audible pop to take place in the storage medium, destroying the relevant part of the executable file

(thinking you said skink care routine) Oh? And you typically do this in a moist, wooded environment, I suppose?

Started watching severance. Fun show! I just wish they didn't have to do that job like that

Setting my automatic email reply to "I accept your terms" and disappearing for eight months

(Resume summary) I am an ingrate. I'm easily fooled. I cannot self direct, my motivations are deeply unknowable, and I remain unmoved in the face of truth or beauty. Everything that happens is new and mysterious to me; I cannot learn