Tag: July
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The Witch House
by Jamie Lackey in Issue 54, July 2016 Fat snowflakes drifted through the frigid air as I trudged along. Snow peppered my spectacles, leaving them fogged and just better than useless, and eerie stillness pressed in from all sides. I glanced at my hardly-legible notes, instructions cobbled together from a handful of third-hand accounts. The…
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Time Is a Lady’s Unerring Blade
by Stephen S. Power in Issue 54, July 2016 Anyone can buy a soul. Even the meanest villages have dealers now, and prices remain low, thanks to the border wars five years ago. To buy a specific soul, though, Erynd has to deal with a ghost taker. She hobbles through the Old Bridge Market, her…
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Without Sin
by Jeremy Harper in Issue 42, July 2015 I “Enter,” said Elania Reynard as she smoothed the skirt of her plain gray robe, wrinkled from hours of kneeling prayer. She was small and frail, just past girlhood, her long hair sun-yellow and her face pale and delicate. Standing in her drab cell she seemed a…
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Harsh is the Light
by Gerry Huntman in Issue 42, July 2015 Aelwyk, Lord of Dooring, dismounted at the foot of the hill, and trudged to its peak with the three men who were waiting for him. He was comforted with the presence of two of his most trusted companions, but his eyes kept wandering to the captured soldier.…
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The Will of Nature
by Jackson Hoerth in Issue 30, July 2014 Wooden wheels turned in the thick mud, dredging up water and muck but receiving no distance for their effort. A young man cracked a whip over a beast’s back and the creature replied with a low groan and renewed effort. Still, the wheels spun in the earth. …