Tag: July
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Chill Out with Some Hot Stories
Welcome to the July 2024 issue of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, issue 150. I have three new stories to enjoy wherever you find comfort and time to read. In “Joy’s Soul Lies In the Doing”, by Todd Honeycutt, a hard-hearted mercenary finds new purpose in a monastery devoted to crafting furniture for the gods. Honeycutt’s…
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Joy’s Soul Lies in the Doing
by Todd Honeycutt in Issue 150, July 2024 As I plodded higher into the forest, the tales whispered about these heathen lands felt more true. Many pointed to these hills, with their magnificent trees that could have been planted by the first gods, yews with their large, windy trunks and broad canopies and cedars towering…
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Tola’s Waft
by Ranylt Richildis in Issue 150, July 2024 Tola lopes down the boulevard, and those along his path veer off with a shudder. It’s not the outsized hands on his narrow frame or the bow across his back—turned for a mercenary by the most expensive master. It’s not his well-known name, muttered in the dimmest…
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A Voyage Among the Vandals
by Daniel Stride in Issue 150, July 2024 My name is Quintus. The Roman, my Vandal friends and acquaintances called me, in those long-ago days, when the withered husk of the Western Imperium still hid within the swamps of Ravenna. A time of turmoil, and of opportunity. The Eternal City itself had shrivelled into nothing,…
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“Old Knucklebone” by PJ Atwater: A Review
by Curtis Ellett I first encountered Old Knucklebone when PJ Atwater queried me about whether I would be interested in it for Swords & Sorcery Magazine as I had published several of his stories previously. My answer was no, the story is too long, but I would be happy to read it. I am very…