Tag: 2018
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Braids
by Alexis Lantgen in Issue 79, August 2018 For hundreds of years, the women of Mont Noire have been renowned for their hair. No matter what the color, their hair was thick and shining with a luster that made them the envy of all the surrounding villages. Even today, when Mont Noire women cut their…
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The Burden
by Harry Piper in Issue 79, August 2018 Sir Madoc didn’t tarry long at the ruins of his home. For what was the point in staying? A pile of blackened timber and a handful of graves – there was nothing to salvage and nothing more to see. He’d wept enough tears to fill an ocean when…
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Crossing the Barrens
by K. C. Ball in Issue 78, July 2018 Corder couldn’t figure how it came to be that he got lost. He had crossed the Barrens a dozen times or more the past six years, working caravans; sometimes saw an end to it in four days, never more than five. Maybe this time he got turned…
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The Land of Sun
by T. S. Lance in Issue 78, July 2018 Timber-framed, wattle and daub apartments crowded the cobblestone streets, leaving scarcely enough room for one carriage to pass another. Charming little shops filled the bottom floor of every building. I pushed my way through the market and around an oxcart driver unloading crates of leeks and…
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Gina
by Gustavo Bondoni in Issue 77, June 2018 The girl – young, voluptuous, nubile and dressed only in streaks of ceremonial paint –screamed and struggled. She tried to scratch at the jailer’s eyes, but the enormous man simply swatted her attempts aside as he pulled her inexorably towards the red glow of the pit. A…
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A Little Blood, a Little Fire
by S. K. Farrell in Issue 77, June 2018 She was seven, when I first realised. Seven, or thereabouts. Now, don’t get that look. I know I should remember the age of my own daughter, should have been cherishing every moment, but it was complicated back then. It was before her mother ruined my business and had…