Tag: May
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Elemental Questions
by Gustavo Bondoni in Issue 88, May 2019 The guardsman took one look at their clothes and waved them through. Gina smiled to herself, amused to note that the good people of Revenn were just as quick to bow to the trappings of wealth as those of Hell’s Gate. Even their famous proclamations of equality…
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Title: The Best ‘70’s Comic Never Written (Part Two): Bronze Age Boogie #1 “Swords Against Dacron”
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 88, May 2019 May 2019I have always been a big fan of genre mash-ups. Types of stories (in any medium, really) that are an amalgamation of different elements that at first may not seem like an obvious choice to combine. But when they are done well, these combinations breathe new…
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Remnants
by Lynn Rushlau in Issue 76, May 2018 A now tattered fairy, Caellery pushed wearily through the gate. Though impossible at this distance, she swore she could still hear the thump of the drums and wail of guitars from the Festival of Liberation. The party would go on until dawn. Without her. She tripped over the…
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Spellbreaker
by Dan Morley in Issue 76, May 2018 He curled into a ball, his arms wrapped tightly around himself while he shivered on the ground, his flesh sloughing off in green and purple trails. Asmarean magic. Spectres tormented his mind while throbbing pain wracked his body. It felt wrong, diseased, foul, like he was being…
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A Woman of Means
by James Edward O’Brien in Issue 64, May 2017 “No one’s broken into the athenaeum and made it out breathing. Nobody. Besides, those days are behind me,” he explained. “Bad knees.” The woman rolled an amethyst monocle between her fingers. She plugged the incandescent lens in her eye and studied the pictograms adorning Shanley’s forearms. “You look like…
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Glass Houses
by Melanie Smith in Issue 64, May 2017 The sun’s light fell and dripped, yolk-like, onto the glass spires and faceted crystal domes of the Second City, pooling in golden puddles on the polished eaves of the great sprawl. The city stretched from the shallows of the Night Desert in the east to the Bay…