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Still Moving Forward
Welcome to the June 2025 issue of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, issue 161. This month we have four new stories, once again by authors not previously featured in S&SM. There is also a review by Anthony Perconti, whose work longtime readers of S&SM will be familiar with. I don’t have a link to pledge at…
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The Bloody Briar
by Ali Abbas in Issue 161, June 2025 Jan cursed as his spear tip jarred in the dense foliage. Steel chimed on a hard surface. The broad trail left by the boar veered sharply left as it, too, had been forced to change course. He dropped to his haunches to read the spoor. The boar…
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A Black Mile To The Surface
by Chris Bissette in Issue 161, June 2025 The potion the witch forced on him was taking effect already. Gillan’s lips were tingling, the skin of his face drawing tight over his skull. He felt focused, readied, like a drawn bowstring in the moment before release. He had forgotten how to blink. Twenty minutes, she…
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Ambush in Herezan
by William Morris in Issue 161, June 2025 “I did what you said, now gimme the money!” “You’ve had your cash, bitch, now scram!” The first voice was Tery. It had to be. A shrill, scrawny wildcat of a thing, giving out her dubious favours for a few silver talens, or a neck of grain…
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Up the Road
by Daniel A. Rabuzzi in Issue 161, June 2025 Currents of heat roiled up from the caravan halted on the road below, carrying the odor of alien salts. “As if the twilight itself has grown sullen,” thought Tad (short for “Tadileqs”). “Grexical airs from a devil’s bunghole,” thought his cousin, Cheese. No one could remember…
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Review: David C. Smith’s -Sometime Lofty Towers-
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 161, June 2025 I have been aware of David C. Smith and his relation to the sword and sorcery community for some time now. Aware, but truth be told, not familiar with his work. Sure, I remember those Red Sonja paperbacks, rocking those Borris Vallejo covers. I associated Smith with…
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