Tag: January
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The Destiny Bureau
by William Broom in Issue 96, January 2020 Five men stood around the oracle, each of them covered by thick leather from head to toe. Their gloves, coats, boots and hoods were all of a single piece, to protect them from the luminescent vapours rising from the fissure in the chamber’s floor. Across their mouths…
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A Brief Pause Between Floods
by J. Tynan Burke in Issue 96, January 2020 There are monks in the far west who you may have heard of, called Harvesters. They teach that every day changes your life forever. Of course, some days change it more than others; this is about one of those days. I was sixteen, a good age for it.…
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Dirge of the Deep
by Joshua Turner in Issue 96, January 2020 Things beneath, things below; things in darkness, things unknown. Viktor heard it again. It rang out through the back of his mind like that itch he couldn’t scratch. The lilting lullaby was louder and clearer this time as if whoever was singing floated directly beneath the docks. Viktor looked over…
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Countdown
by Joshua Alexander in Issue 84, January 2019 As I gazed past the grimy bars of my prison cell to the somehow-grimier wall beyond, I was reminded precisely why I avoided cities. The dusty backwater provinces I usually haunted had little wealth, but they also had fewer jails. I could hear a madman babbling to…
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Popina 79
by Russel Hemmell in Issue 84, January 2019 Livia kicked away fish bones and chicken rests from the cooking area’s dirty floor, tossing water and salt to wash away dried blood and cover the inevitable stench. That laggard of Attis had again forgotten to clean up. She’d have to give him a few lashes as…
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Traveling Through This World of Woe: A Review of ‘Weirdworld’: Volume 0
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 84, January 2019 December 2018 Let me pose to you a philosophical quandary. What if God were a super-villain? What if he collected the shattered vestiges of the multiverse and re-forged it according to his own twisted intellect and desires? This exact question was the high concept premise behind…