Tag: 2016

  • The Witch House

    by Jamie Lackey in Issue 54, July 2016 Fat snowflakes drifted through the frigid air as I trudged along.  Snow peppered my spectacles, leaving them fogged and just better than useless, and eerie stillness pressed in from all sides.  I glanced at my hardly-legible notes, instructions cobbled together from a handful of third-hand accounts.  The…

  • Time Is a Lady’s Unerring Blade

    by Stephen S. Power in Issue 54, July 2016 Anyone can buy a soul. Even the meanest villages have dealers now, and prices remain low, thanks to the border wars five years ago. To buy a specific soul, though, Erynd has to deal with a ghost taker. She hobbles through the Old Bridge Market, her…

  • The Rescue Job

    by Matthew Cropley in Issue 53, June 2016 “This is stupid,” I groaned, peering at the moonlit mansion from inside a scratchy bush. “But worth it if we stand a chance of saving him,” Chif said, crouched beside me in the undergrowth. I grunted as my gaze flicked over the manicured garden ahead, assessing the best approach,…

  • Imitation

    by L. M. Myles in Issue 53, June 2016 Beatrice watched the unadorned cart draw into the courtyard of the villa, just behind the carriage carrying the Contessa da Saluzzo. Beneath the heavy cloth cover Beatrice knew the cart carried only one item: an iron box, locked and bolted, containing the Contessa’s portrait. Beatrice tried not…

  • The Skimmington

    by B. C. Nance in Issue 52, May 2016 Alden huddled in his coarse woolen coat to stave off a wind that slashed from the steel-gray sky.  He stood alone in the village square watching down the long path to the low fields, marking Sheply’s laborious progress as he led his aging ox pulling an…