Tag: 2024
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Thanks Again
Welcome to the November 2024 issue of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, issue 154. This month I feature three new stories, and an essay. While you are enjoying them in this season of thanksgiving, take a moment to remember the things that you are thankful for. Here at Swords & Sorcery we’re thankful for you, the…
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The Eighth God
by Matthew Ilseman in Issue 154, November 2024 1 It is said that the gods are Seven in number, but in Zeliaka it is whispered that the gods are Eight. – Salahan the Sage Obbo Karonga ran through the serpentine streets of Zeliaka. As he ran his turban fell off revealing his shaven black skull.…
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Cast No Shadow
by Cameron MacLeod in Issue 154, November 2024 Anton kept his breathing heavy and let his body attend to itself. His mind came unstuck from physical burdens. This allowed him to focus on his daughter, who lay some few feet away, his brother’s dagger protruding gaudily from her chest. By ritual he summoned grief, anger,…
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Spear and Talon
by Eric Williams in Issue 154, November 2024 It took Edeko all morning to crawl up the hill, each cautious movement weighed and considered and carefully planned before he inched forward in perfect silence. He’d spent an hour lifting a branch of elkweed out of the way, straining to keep the seeds from rattling in…
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Let This Be The Hour When We Draw Maps Together
by Jonathan Olfert in Issue 154, November 2024 It brings me great satisfaction to assert that swords-and-sorcery maps are in vogue. Examples abound, albeit with room to grow. Howard Andrew Jones’ Hanuvar books come with robust and detailed maps of the Dervan Empire and fallen Volanus. Scott Oden’s monumental The Doom of Odin opens with…