Category: Content Posts
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The Fishheart Ruby
by Sam Belleneuve in Issue 160, May 2025 Axad moored his dinghy to the arm-long spur of rock that reached straight up from the water near the edge of the barren, craggy island that rose in the center of Lake Mreehan. The spur happened to mark the location of the relatively safer of the two…
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Howl Rising
by Kirsty Campbell in Issue 160, May 2025 No one will notice, she thinks. They are too busy adding bodies to the smoking heap. There is still much to do. They must find the gold, the ruby-hilted blades, the gleaming mail-coats, before they set the gabled hall ablaze. In all the chaos, her presence will…
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The Hero of Glasire
by Becca Dwight in Issue 160, May 2025 The latest rebel venture in the city had been a snatch-and-grab, and the General made my team, but mostly just me, stay behind. So our first glimpse of Tema Blystone, Baron of Moorac, Hero of Glasire, the fabled Hero Foretold, was through the slit into the veritable…
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The Ferryman
by Krista Farmer in Issue 160, May 2025 Ben had hardly finished stringing up the last of the day’s catch when a man, striding down the boardwalk, came calling out to him, “Fisherman! Fisherman, here! I’ve a proposition for you!” Ben looked out from underneath his low-roofed stall. He could still feel the dull ache…
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Interview with Christopher Ruocchio
Conducted by Alex Beecher in Issue 160, May 2025 Christopher Ruocchio is mostly known as the author of the best-selling space opera series, Sun Eater. He has, however, also published two sword-and-sorcery short stories, with more to come. The Barrow King is available in Galaxy Magazine #263 and at https://parkersfiction.substack.com/p/the-barrow-king-guest-story-by-christopher, and The Pilgrim Road is…
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The Cats and the Crimson
by Rab Foster in Issue 159, April 2025 Two old men were in the room. One was a barber-surgeon. About to perform surgery, not barbery, he bent over the other man, who was in a chair. He inserted into his patient’s mouth an instrument with a claw that clamped onto rotten teeth and a fulcrum…