Tag: 2019

  • The Trial of Nabybee

    by Curtis A. Deeter in Issue 95, December 2019 They brought Nabybee before the court in shackles, guarded by drawn witchfire and bound by a petrification weave so complex it made my head spin. He might as well have been crucified with the way they had his arms and legs strapped to the rack. It…

  • Blackwork

    by Shelly Jones in Issue 95, December 2019 Aelif threaded her way through muddy alleys and darted toward the shop district. It had rained all night while she was diving in the sea for the byssus. “Good,” she thought, “no one will notice that I’m wet.” Aelif wrung the sea water from her dark braid…

  • Ebb & Flow

    by David Samuels in Issue 95. December 2019 ​The Southsea Shadow15 Month of Cosmic Vespers | Afternoon    My stomach growled in mutiny as I prepared to toss our last loaf of bread over the walls and into the sea. Hopelessly outnumbered and marooned without escape, my crew and I had nothing left in our arsenal…

  • Songs for Fools and Children

    by Maike Claussnitzer in Issue 94, November 2019 I first saw Orm the Skald again after the hall of Straela-by-the-Sound had burned to the ground, when my lord Ragnar picked his way through smoke and ruin to claim what was his by the sword now. It might have been his by inheritance, had his grandmother…

  • The Bard at the Bronze Falcon

    by Chad A. B. Wilson in Issue 94, November 2019 Kline moved to the side table and took the decanter in his left hand. “I assume you don’t object?” “At midday? Of course not.” Brock moved to join him. The brown liquid poured into the glass, two fingers tall. Brock drank. Kline was worth a…