Tag: February
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Made for Better Days
by Jonathan Olfert in Issue 133, February 2023 On the errands of the King he loved, Vayel had crossed the palace courtyard ten thousand times, trained swordsmen here, guarded His Majesty against diplomats and other horrors. He’d thought he knew this place—cold marble flagstones, vaulted galleries, cherry trees with pale pink flowers. But now the…
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Unexpected Defense
by Alcuin Fromm in Issue 121, February 2022 Emmick slapped the bar with a wrinkled, calloused hand and roared with laughter. It was a hearty, booming sound that filled the air and seemed to lift and drop the Cerulean Sky Tavern in time with the man’s broad, heaving shoulders. The tavern keeper smiled from behind…
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A Coin Has Two Sides
by Sean Jones in Issue 121, February 2022 “Does anyone see the paradox?” asked the black-haired man in the charred, quilted armor, the crossbowman who sat atop the vanquished lich’s white-marble bier. He gestured with his pine-pitch torch, brandishing the only source of illumination in the half-dome of the sepulcher, the floor’s scattered gems winking…
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Isabeau’s New Name
by Michael Meyerhofer in Issue 121, February 2022 It made a lot of people angry when my sister became my brother. That kind of thing was less common ten years back, before the truce in Jerusalem. Worse in Isabeau’s case because she’d already been Christ-kissed. That means in the eyes of the Holy See, her…
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A Plague of Rats
by Lawrence Buentello in Issue 109, February 2021 Northward Mercer fled, spurred on by the memory of gory conflict, and his loss of honor during that late engagement. A thousand of his countrymen lay dead in fields to the south, on the borders of his sovereign’s realm, having lost their lives in defense of their…