Tag: 2012
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‘Imaro’ by Charles Saunders, a Review
by Jeremy Harper in Issue 9, October 2012 At A Glance Among them will come The Child of Wonder And they will Know him not. This edition of Imaro is a trade paperback produced by Night Shade Books (2006), a small press based in San Francisco. The cover, by Vince Evans, is quite striking, depicting Imaro holding…
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Kaxzorus the Liberator
by Kyle Bakke in Issue 8, September 2012 A solitary traveler, who was a tall, powerfully built man, strode across the rolling plain with a steady gait, leaving Valenduar behind him as he made his way into Oremednia. His destination was Armesskvalann, land of his birth, which lay several days’ march to the north of…
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Shadow of Ragnorok
by Rebecca Brown They gathered in close to their campfires, clustering body against body for what little warmth could be gleaned from one another’s flesh. It seemed sometimes that it would be so easy to forget, so easy to imagine that it had always been this way. Already, Eldgrim struggled to remember the way he…
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The Boon of Gregory of Northlee
by Andrew Moore The Feast of Vincent and Agnes brightened the halls of King Hector’s court in the usual fashion. Light hearts sat at heavy tables, peerless champions strong in the fight came together in peace, and the king handed out boons with his own hand to all who entered. Into that court came a…
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Ninety-Nine Deaths of the Monkey God
by David J. West in Issue 7, August 2012 The dripping heat of Bhustan hung on them like a stinking towel from a diseased bathhouse. The slayers swatted bloodsucking flies or pulled leeches that dropped from putrid trees. The jungle demanded a blood debt and the captain of these slayers, a man known as Kold,…
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Corbane’s Wish
by Charlene Brusso in Issue 6, July 2012 The music of Corbane, acclaimed graduate of the Selcaster College of Bards, was regarded by many to be the finest in the land. Not so his temper, however, which was increasingly obvious now as the hot summer day wore thin, with no sign of the wizard’s house. …