Tag: 2020
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Eldr Orvar
by Freya Pickard in Issue 99, April 2020 BBodila waited patiently in the hallway of the governor’s palace. She was tenth in the queue and she had been waiting all day. The others in the hall stared listlessly at the wall hangings or at the floor. Bodila watched everyone, noticed each servant as they walked…
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Forgotten Deeds
by Dan Rice in Issue 99, April 2020 “Look at the cripple, lads!” Mean spirited laughter erupted around the tavern. Eric looked up from the bar to gaze at three men wearing dust covered leather armor with short swords girded at their sides. They looked like toughs who guarded caravans for merchants and thoroughly drunk.…
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‘The Desert Spear’ by Peter V. Brett: A Review
by John C. Adams The Desert Spear by Peter V Brett is the sequel to The Painted Man, his debut novel. Both lie clearly within the dark fantasy subgenre courtesy of the night demons terrorising villagers and city-dwellers alike. There are also aspects of epic fantasy and quest, and a certain amount of the novel is also…
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The Season of Change
by Daniel Bavister in Issue 98, March 2020 Fourteen years have passed since I became a Silent Seeker. But today I finally realised it is impossible, what the priests taught us during our three years of training for this role, about locking up your past in a deep dark place inside of you. Now I…
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The Villain’s New Mantle
by Paul R. Hardy in Issue 98, March 2020 Cicatrix of the Thousand Scars marched into the throne room, drenched in blood and spattered by guts (as heroes are wont to be). The hall stank of putrescence and lime, doubtless emanating from the hides of all the creatures that hung in drapes around the hall,…