Tag: 2020
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The Safety of Thick Walls
by Gustavo Bondoni in Issue 106, November 2020 The sun set over the Romans to the west. Rasce smiled grimly at them, wondering whether they would enjoy the autumn mosquitoes outside Aritim, and whether they would die of fever or decide to stay camped outside the walls all winter. It was all the same to…
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The Goblin of Gelhalad
by Samuel Kennedy in Issue 106, November 2020 As the children gathered around the dim light of the fire, the old crone smiled at them through her broken, yellow teeth. When everyone had found a seat, a hush fell over the cave. And then the old woman began her story. “The outside world is full…
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The Emperor’s Encounter
by Samuel Kennedy in Issue 105, October 2020 It’s never easy waiting for a coronation. Especially when it’s your own. I sigh heavily. My breath and the soft tread of my feet are the only sounds to be heard here. At this depth, I can’t hear the celebrations taking place in the city above me.…
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Sir Jervis Ends His Retirement
by Harold R. Thompson in Issue 105, October 2020 I didn’t get tired of the killing. You know that wasn’t it, not for me. I got tired of fighting the same enemies, the same villains, the same assholes. Not the exact same assholes, but the same type of guys. Over and over. So after I…
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In the Dust, In the Cool Tombs
by Ethan Cade Varnado in Issue 105, October 2020 The Thracian Zagrios came at last to the tombs. Twelve mudbrick monoliths, houses without doors or windows, monuments to kings long-dead, their names lost along with the very language neatly etched into the tomb-face. Time had rendered these towers little more than shade against the scorching…