Tag: 2023
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The Assassin
by Jeffery A. Sergent in Issue 137, June 2023 The prince must die. It was the same old story: upstart youth threatened beloved sovereign. Chaos and confusion threatened the stability of the realm. Murder and mayhem ensue. Rape and ruin. People die. Lots of people usually. The trouble with these situations is they never ended well. The…
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The Black Cult of Tarantium
by Mike Adamson in Issue 136, May 2023 The Tarantium River rose in the high, cold Mendolacian Mountains, far to the northwest, and irrigated the mild and temperate lands of Avestium in its meander to the Inland Sea. On the fertile planes the ever-fresh melt-waters had provided for a great and noble civilisation, and the…
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In the Attic of the Mountain King
by Dan Crawford in Issue 136, May 2023 They were coming at him from all sides! Fingers outstretched, they could hardly miss him. With bare seconds to choose his course, he threw his hands up in front of his face. This kept the dust out of Olki’s eyes as the stack of black velvet gloves…
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The Bog Witch of Dirk-au-fen
by Vincent Wolfram in Issue 136, May 2023 I. Rain drifted in shrouds over the valley, droplets fine as sand scouring his cheeks with the burning cold. The giant eased under the drape of the mist after cresting the hill, his boots sinking ankle-deep in the mud as he worked down the incline. His beast…
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The Self Made God
by P. J. Atwater in Issue 135, April 2023 “My good friend, I pray you take leave of this madness,” said Rickus, the small Alleenian. He wrung his hands like a pair of clammy rags. The young Mutangarder ignored him. Towering in the autumn breeze, red and firm as the mountains in which he was…