Category: Content Posts
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Dutiful
by Damien Allmark in Issue 100, May 2020 “Soldier Katrielle Collier, step forward,” bellowed Captain Tierro. Kat stepped forward and snapped to attention, and fixed her eyes on a particular brick in the citadel wall. Outside, distant thunder grumbled. Captain Tierro peered down his hooked nose at her, and he forced a thin smile. “Soldier…
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Triple Cross
by Sabrina Rosen in Issue 100, May 2020 Sergeant Tream looked over his shoulder and ducked between the tents, heading toward the nearby woods. Since the payroll had not come through, I wanted to know where he was going. I was counting on that money. I only needed a little more in order to buy…
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The Sum of Broken Parts
by Daniel Roy in Issue 100, May 2020 I first saw the blur of her, cutting through the Disquiet in a flash of godsteel. She seemed more liquid than steel as she drew an arc of gore through the swathes of silent faces crowding the town square. Serrated blades spread fin-like from her wrists and…
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Eldr Orvar
by Freya Pickard in Issue 99, April 2020 BBodila waited patiently in the hallway of the governor’s palace. She was tenth in the queue and she had been waiting all day. The others in the hall stared listlessly at the wall hangings or at the floor. Bodila watched everyone, noticed each servant as they walked…
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Forgotten Deeds
by Dan Rice in Issue 99, April 2020 “Look at the cripple, lads!” Mean spirited laughter erupted around the tavern. Eric looked up from the bar to gaze at three men wearing dust covered leather armor with short swords girded at their sides. They looked like toughs who guarded caravans for merchants and thoroughly drunk.…
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‘The Desert Spear’ by Peter V. Brett: A Review
by John C. Adams The Desert Spear by Peter V Brett is the sequel to The Painted Man, his debut novel. Both lie clearly within the dark fantasy subgenre courtesy of the night demons terrorising villagers and city-dwellers alike. There are also aspects of epic fantasy and quest, and a certain amount of the novel is also…