Tag: Jonathan Olfert
-
Tell Me The Count
by Jonathan Olfert in Issue 152, September 2024 Seven sails on the horizon, the square rigs of great catamarans, sank dread into Tahure’s heart. He’d been hoisting a dharak terror-bird into a tree for harvest, vines biting into his palms. When the sails caught his eye he froze there at the edge of the beach.…
-
Acosar
by Jonathan Olfert in Issue 140, September 2023 Parok’s Well: a caravanserai, an enclosed camp along the salt trail from the corpse of Old Jegest to ravenous new kingdoms. For a caravaneer, Parok’s Well is a waypoint like any other in the Five Deserts: a milestone to dream about, and then to forget. Forget, too,…
-
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…