Tag: 2012
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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. …
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A Little Peril in Brisbett
by Jeffery Scott Sims in Issue 6, July 2012 So Lord Nantrech, noble wizard of glorious Dyrezan, would go forth into the world unknown to seek marvels in its far reaches, that he might enrich his store of knowledge and wisdom. Having decided this, he set out with his devoted colleague Lord Harmon, an impressively…
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The Carolian Tablet
by Ed Ahern in Issue 5, June 2012 We smelled like the dromedaries we had been perched on for most of a moon cycle. The Old One, wrapped within his thoughts, had ignored the journey. I, however, charged with the care of both magus and beasts, had lost sleep and patience. The walls of the…
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Price of Fate
by Billy Wong in Issue 5, June 2012 Courtney untied her brother from the bed, not able to meet his gaze. “They’re all dead, aren’t they?” he said when she failed to answer. She cringed at his voice, cracked with anger and despair. “I could have saved them. I hate you, you spineless bitch!” “Some…