Tag: December
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Smoke Out
by Melanie Smith in Issue 59, December 2016 It wasn’t the dragons that were the problem, it was the unicorns. Sure enough, the dragons weren’t easy: they leaked out hot streams of copper alloy piss as they undulated in the air above the town, which spattered down on the houses below to start the odd…
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The Death of the Bastard D’Uvel
by Dan DeFazio in Issue 47, December 2015 In terms of sheer debauchery, no festival rivaled that of the Night of Masks. After sunset the citizens of Dreadmoor flooded every quarter, forsaking their everyday faces and donning new ones, ranging from the comic, to the tragic, to the grotesque, to the obscene. To a stranger it might…
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Arbor
by Frank Martinicchio in Issue 47, December 2015 He came in the night and brought the rain with him. William watched from the cover of the stables, cuddling his cloak tightly into him, taking the little warmth it offered. A rider this late in the night can’t be good news, thought William. But he did his duty…
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Battle Brothers
by Timothy Ide in Issue 35, December 2014 Fergall flinched as a throwing axe bounced off the stone wall behind him. “You missed!” shouted Culac at the horde of monsters below them. Both men lay on their bellies on a stone balcony that overlooked an ancient hall. Pillars carved with strange gripping beasts supported its…
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Evil Bloom
by Diana Parparita in Issue 35, December 2014 It takes evil to remove evil. That is the first principle of healing. One must pay for the evil that is removed with an evil of equal strength. That is why the most potent of medicines can only be made from the deepest pain. There was plenty…