Tag: January
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Princess in a Bottle
by Christopher G. Hall in Issue 60, January 2017 Cat-eye Jack savored the ale as best he could, despite the fact that he was light of purse and heavy of head. His latest misadventure had cost him every coin he had—and it had nearly cost him his life. It turned out that the so-called “notorious…
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The Sword Imperial
by James Van Pelt in Issue 60, January 2017 As he had for the last year, Hndred chopped wood and built fences and cleaned the stables for old Bakken the innskeeper. The young man worked a month before he’d earned enough credit to pay for an evening in the The Broken Beast. He left his…
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Only the Guilty Live
by Robert Mammone in Issue 60, January 2017 When the Cataphracts came for Marduk, he sat sprawled amidst the splintered remains of a table and chairs, the unconscious and bloodied bodies of several men beside him. ‘Beetles,’ Marduk shouted, his voice slurred. He took a swig from his mug then dashed it ringing across the…
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The Quarto Volume, or Knowledge, Good and Evil
by Ken Lizzi in Issue 48, January 2016 The smoldering slow-match puffed an acrid plume of smoke and sparks when it met the touch-hole. A pause. Then the arquebus leapt, driving my shoulder back before it, the forked support dropping into the churned mud of the battlefield. Whether or not I struck anyone with the…
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The Tower of Jadraign
by Joshua Steely in Issue 48, January 2016 I. The Crimson Warlord Well, there was a certain poetic justice to it. Eth had just been thinking to himself that the purple hills and pine-clustered vales of Valezrel were entirely too restful, that his muscles itched from the days of quiet riding. Then around the bend…