Tag: July
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To Clear the Air
by Malcolm Schmitz in Issue 90, July 2019 You’re a lacemaker, Karvek told himself. You should be braver than this. He dug through his pack one more time. His needle and thread were stuck in his breast pocket, just as they should be. His greataxe was on his back. His lantern had a good stock of oil,…
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Crossing the Barrens
by K. C. Ball in Issue 78, July 2018 Corder couldn’t figure how it came to be that he got lost. He had crossed the Barrens a dozen times or more the past six years, working caravans; sometimes saw an end to it in four days, never more than five. Maybe this time he got turned…
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The Land of Sun
by T. S. Lance in Issue 78, July 2018 Timber-framed, wattle and daub apartments crowded the cobblestone streets, leaving scarcely enough room for one carriage to pass another. Charming little shops filled the bottom floor of every building. I pushed my way through the market and around an oxcart driver unloading crates of leeks and…
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Fish Out of Water
by Anna Cates in Issue 66, July 2017 “You’re the sleaziest bucket of fish guts I’ve ever seen.” “Gee, thanks.” Inchel laughed. “I didn’t realize I looked that good.” The elf boy’s ashy skin peeped through holes in fishnet stockings cladding his bony thighs beneath leather shorts. He ambled awkwardly in his chunky-heeled girly boots.…
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The High Throne
by James Van Pelt in Issue 66, July 2017 Rudd sat uneasily on the high throne. A line of supplicants with a scroll or basket or bag in hand and an earnest look about them stretched from the dais’s base to the towering oak doors. Terryn, the Lord High Steward, put his hand on Rudd’s…