Tag: May
-
Narrows
by Jay Requard in Issue 28, May 2014 Jishnu braced his arm against the rock wall, struggling to still his shaking knees. His iron sword hung limp in his right hand, its short blade coated in blood. “To Naraka with this.” He spat a glob of mucus on the ground. “They’re not paying us enough…
-
Demons Within and Without
by Steve Goble in Issue 16, May 2013 Tannen’s breath halted beneath the blood-red mask, and his heart galloped, when he heard the cracks of branches in the shadowed underbrush. But he smiled when the thieves emerged to confront him. Brigands — he could handle brigands. The Faceless Son watched the bravado melt from their…
-
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…