Category: Content Posts
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The Bequest
by Sandra Unerman in Issue 147, April 2024 The room was more crowded than Jan had ever seen it. The old woman’s sons and their wives, grandchildren and cousins, avoided each other’s glances. They did not fidget or murmur, keen to hear every word as the clerk read the long, complicated will aloud. Jan leaned…
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The River Tokoloshe
by D. J. Tyrer in Issue 146, March 2024 The tall, lean youth who had arrived at the musha of five huts on the scrubby hillside had given no name save Ini-ndoga, ‘I Alone’, to the men who led him to sit upon the dusty red earth before the hut of the village elder. As…
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Greys and Smokes and Silvers and Steels
by Sean Jones in Issue 146, March 2024 My heart quickened and bile burned my throat as the door before me shuddered open. From the arena, the roar of the echoing throng, the flickering light of scores of torches, the hostility of the crowd, the dread of facing a potent spellcaster, they penetrated my chamber.…
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I Will Give You a Crown of Gems to Wear
by J. M. Cyrus in Issue 146, March 2024 She looked down at the last flickering candle, her eyes burning to memorise the flame’s light. She felt the ache in her body and mind, the wincing pain of her shin’s broken bone, and her soggy clothing against her skin. She smelled iron, dust and sweat.…
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Fate of the Fair
by Gustavo Bondoni in Issue 145, February 2024 Where am I? Junglo thought as he woke. His head pounded and a memory of the previous night’s revelry brought images of luscious flesh, but mostly—and unsurprisingly—the remembrance of thirst, of the need to drink in order to forget and to let himself enjoy the excess around him.…