Tag: 2025
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Marching On
Welcome to the March 2025 issue of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, issue 158. This month I have a packed issue with four new stories and a review for your reading pleasure. Work continues on Best of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Vol. 1. If you have a favorite story from the early years of the magazine…
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Blood for Wind
by Chris Cornetto in Issue 158, March 2025 The icy clearing was utterly changed. When Tura had scouted it two days ago, the work camp had barely pitched its tents. The first pilings of the palisade had not yet risen, and the stumps had still been trees. The snow had been pristine white, not yet…
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Beyond the Firelight
by Matthew Ilseman in Issue 158, March 2025 Krya stirred the fire. The flames danced in red and gold on the sticks. It lit up her equally red hair and warmed her gold skin. Her weapons, a bow and quiver along with an axe, lay by her side. On a night like this she wanted…
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Eternal
by E. Florian Gludovacz in Issue 158, March 2025 The sword slid into the wyvern’s side with a gristly crunch, grating against ribs before the point finally connected with the creature’s heart. The reptile gave a final, agonised shriek, spat a last ball of flame and collapsed into a scaly heap. Cjhoregg lifted his shield…
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Shield of the Glasslaw
by Isobel Mackenzie in Issue 158, March 2025 Mishai rode six days in bad weather to swear to the Stone Queen, and found, when she arrived, that no one cared. The Stone Queen had raised her banner at the foot of the summer mountain pass, a flat plain that spent the winter as tundra and…
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Double-Edged Sword and Sorcery: Review
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 158, March 2025 One of the things I find compelling about the modern renaissance in sword and sorcery fiction, is way that some authors have shifted their focus away from traditional Eurocentric settings (or fictional analogs thereof). Hey, it’s a wide swath of human history, why not set adventures in…