Tag: 2012
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Royal Steel
by Leigh Kimmel in Issue 4, May 2012 In the half-light of dawn Ashkhen always loved to squint her eyes and imagine the dusty marketplace were still the summer palace of King Suslan. Grandfather Irakli’s stories supplied details of courtiers and cherkessa-clad guards, of Suslan’s boon companions and of the king himself with his magic…
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There Might Be Giants
by David Turnbull in Issue 4, May 2012 The first anniversary of our Glorious Revolution was fast approaching when a new prisoner was incarcerated in the town jailhouse. His name was Jack. His infamy preceded him. In the Duke’s day there had been many ‘tales’ about his exploits. But under the democratic regime People’s Commissariat such ‘tales’ were…
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Love and Scorpions
by Steve Goble in Issue 3, April 2012 Lillthan watched the moon-washed forest canopy below as she paced the rampart. Her grip tightened on the sword hilt as she waited for them to come. The Fastness of Samoree was quiet. Only night birds broke the silence. Her ears strained for the sound of Kooroo’s shrill…
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In the Hills of Yost
by Jeffery Scott Sims in Issue 3, April 2012 During the great war across the unknown sea against the abominable kingdom of the Rhexellites the legions of Dyrezan, marching eastward toward the distant enemy citadel of Tsathgon, entered into a dreary region of stony mounds and sheer ravines which, so the furtive natives informed, were…
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Redwater
by Noeleen Kavanagh in Issue 2, March 2012 Sorcha was woken in the dark and the cold. She took a moment to recognise the man who shook her awake and she jerked back from him. “Griana says to come quick. The cows are coming down with redwater,” he said. “What? What? Why?” “She said you…