Tag: December
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Clashing Blades
by Lawrence Raphael Brothers in Issue 83, December 2018 The dashing capitaine des fusiliers who called herself La Panthère glanced covertly at the sorcière de la Lune and smiled nastily. It was a chance encounter with her rival at the sumptuous sideboard of the Casino D’Or, one of the fancier gambling houses on the right…
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Festival of Rogues
by David Waid in Issue 83, December 2018 What was to become the most intemperate and inglorious debauch in the history of Nuboe commenced as any other festival might, swathed in tradition and observance of the country’s old forms. Rowan Stilko disembarked from his blossom-festooned chariot to the accompaniment of the crowd’s full-throated cheers. On…
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Need Some Healing
by Thomas Grayfson in Issue 71, December 2017 Ihsan cursed under her breath. She searched her pack for the healing potion. Kaldor lay dying beside her, a spear protruding from his belly. They had journeyed to Castle Drume on a quest to defeat Torkep, but the encounter had been disastrous for both sides. “Did we kill…
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The Regurgitated Messiah
by Keith Peck in Issue 71, December 2017 Ausonia pushed her cart, loaded with her disassembled booth, along the Heptastadion. No one had stolen her customary spot — halfway down, on the Great Harbor side of the causeway — but that damn metal Atlantean ship was still moored nearby. Her lips tightened. “Hey! Lady! Watch…
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Getting Better
by Rob Francis in Issue 59, December 2016 “They dead?” Agris squinted at the sun, the rictus that passed for a smile on his battered face making him seem almost a corpse himself. Leos looked down on the two withered bodies by the side of the dirt track, flaking skin stretched and taut enough to see the…