Tag: May

  • In the Shadow of the Gibbet

    by Robert Mammone in Issue 16, May 2013 Humid air drifted through the window’s great arch, disturbing the diaphanous curtains which obscured the full moon.  Lod watched it through slitted eyes, grunting as the woman riding him arched her back then drove her hips into his, harder and harder.  Haloed in the moonlight, her hair…

  • Royal Steel

    by Leigh Kimmel in Issue 4, May 2012 In the half-light of dawn Ashkhen always loved to squint her eyes and imagine the dusty marketplace were still the summer palace of King Suslan. Grandfather Irakli’s stories supplied details of courtiers and cherkessa-clad guards, of Suslan’s boon companions and of the king himself with his magic…

  • There Might Be Giants

    by David Turnbull in Issue 4, May 2012 The first anniversary of our Glorious Revolution was fast approaching when a new prisoner was incarcerated in the town jailhouse. His name was Jack. His infamy preceded him. In the Duke’s day there had been many ‘tales’ about his exploits. But under the democratic regime People’s Commissariat such ‘tales’ were…