Tag: Issue 4

  • Royal Steel

    by Leigh Kimmel in Issue 4, May 2012 In the half-light of dawn Ashkhen always loved to squint her eyes and imagine the dusty marketplace were still the summer palace of King Suslan. Grandfather Irakli’s stories supplied details of courtiers and cherkessa-clad guards, of Suslan’s boon companions and of the king himself with his magic…

  • There Might Be Giants

    by David Turnbull in Issue 4, May 2012 The first anniversary of our Glorious Revolution was fast approaching when a new prisoner was incarcerated in the town jailhouse. His name was Jack. His infamy preceded him. In the Duke’s day there had been many ‘tales’ about his exploits. But under the democratic regime People’s Commissariat such ‘tales’ were…