Category: Content Posts
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Spear and Talon
by Eric Williams in Issue 154, November 2024 It took Edeko all morning to crawl up the hill, each cautious movement weighed and considered and carefully planned before he inched forward in perfect silence. He’d spent an hour lifting a branch of elkweed out of the way, straining to keep the seeds from rattling in…
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Let This Be The Hour When We Draw Maps Together
by Jonathan Olfert in Issue 154, November 2024 It brings me great satisfaction to assert that swords-and-sorcery maps are in vogue. Examples abound, albeit with room to grow. Howard Andrew Jones’ Hanuvar books come with robust and detailed maps of the Dervan Empire and fallen Volanus. Scott Oden’s monumental The Doom of Odin opens with…
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Beyond The Slit Of Eternity
by K. T. Booker in Issue 153, October 2024 I Hamill woke to the dark. The damp. He knew not if it was day or night. The guards were outside. The pounding of their boots on the stone floor echoed through the iron door of the prison cell. They’d come in soon. He readied himself…
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A Hoard of Infinite Meanings
by Abby Roberts in Issue 153, October 2024 Seshet tossed aside her wax-coated writing tablet almost carelessly. The pain behind her left eye was the kind of pain indicative of having stared at the same godsdamn tablet all godsdamn day. Her back was sore, too, because she’d been sitting for hours without support. The rustle…
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A Fallen Flare
by Jamey Toner in Issue 153, October 2024 The Numivore, the Numivore, The human whom the Gods abhor. The Numivore, the Numivore, The tomb of whom’s an open door. Two scarlet wings, like a galleon’s mainsails, billowed overhead. The valley, miles below, was a collusion of cartography and heraldry, vast and wild and beautiful. The…
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Eliza Sky And The Iron Smelter’s Devil
by Neil Willcox in Issue 153, October 2024 Eliza Sky and the Iron Smelter’s Devil – Part 1 Eliza Sky and the Iron Smelter’s Devil – Part 2 An agreement in the light of PROVIDENCE in the Third Year of the Lord Regent of WHITLAND and the seventeenth year of the rule of the IRON…