Tag: March
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A Soujourn in Crost
by Jeffery Scott Sims in Issue 62, March 2017 Lord Morca, wizard and warrior of ancient Dyrezan, marched alone this day, he who had led a great army into the unknown east that he might conquer and thereby heighten the glory due to himself and his people. There in that magical and forbidding eastern realm…
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The Altar of the Toad
by Davide Mana in Issue 50, March 2016 “The Gods sent you.” The big Roman looked up, munching on a mouthful of chowder. The woman approaching the table was dressed in faded rags, her graying hair combed up in the style of the Colchis, pale eyes staring blindly in the general direction of his face. “We serve…
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Old Bones
by Andrew Muff in Issue 50, March 2016 You may have imagined a gathering of important men inside a candlelit rectory or a well-appointed sitting room, perhaps sipping mulled wine while they sat before a hearth and debated what needed to be done, but nothing so organized ever happened. Everybody in our village knew that Old…
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Head Games
by Cameron Johnston in Issue 38, March 2015 Seven corpses lined the side of the alley, heaped atop pig shit and kitchen slops. Stained blankets did little to conceal the lumps of butchered human meat beneath. A black-clad warden wearing the red sash of a captain stood in the middle of the bloody mess, his…
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To Go on Two Feet
by Jamie Lackey in Issue 38, March 2015 Avasa knelt on a boulder and flexed her claws. The wind ruffled her fur, and the smell of rain filled her nose. The wind also carried hints of man-sweat. A hunter. One of the white men with their noisy feet. Despite all their differences, the white men…