Tag: May
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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…
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The Skimmington
by B. C. Nance in Issue 52, May 2016 Alden huddled in his coarse woolen coat to stave off a wind that slashed from the steel-gray sky. He stood alone in the village square watching down the long path to the low fields, marking Sheply’s laborious progress as he led his aging ox pulling an…