Tag: January
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Godsteel
by Michael Meyerhofer in Issue 72, January 2018 Mennaus took a bite out of an apple, tasted a telltale sourness that meant a worm had gotten there ahead of him, and tossed the rest into the mud. He nearly spit out the bite he’d just taken, then changed his mind and chewed. The brackish taste…
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A Ghost Story
by Dorothy Winsor in Issue 72, January 2018 From the hilltop, my father focuses the spyglass on the fur clad man leading thirty mounted soldiers toward the town gates. When a stork-legged sentry steps forward to hail them and presumably ask their business, one of the men casually kicks the sentry in the head. The…
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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…