Tag: Michael Meyerhofer
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Burning Pig, Broken Tower
by Michael Meyerhofer in Issue 157, February 2025 By the time you reach the Arm of Heaven, you wish you’d just kept that burning pig to yourself. You’ve spent most of the war behind a shovel – a consequence of exiting your mother’s womb with one leg a bit shorter than the other – so…
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Isabeau’s New Name
by Michael Meyerhofer in Issue 121, February 2022 It made a lot of people angry when my sister became my brother. That kind of thing was less common ten years back, before the truce in Jerusalem. Worse in Isabeau’s case because she’d already been Christ-kissed. That means in the eyes of the Holy See, her…
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Snow and Fire
by Michael Meyerhofer in Issue 110, March 2021 Jalist tugged at his cloak and tried to ignore the blizzard that only seemed to thicken as the sun went down. A campfire sputtered in front of him as snowflakes mingled with the flames, causing them to hiss and flicker, drawing ever lower by the moment. Though…
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Godsteel
by Michael Meyerhofer in Issue 72, January 2018 Mennaus took a bite out of an apple, tasted a telltale sourness that meant a worm had gotten there ahead of him, and tossed the rest into the mud. He nearly spit out the bite he’d just taken, then changed his mind and chewed. The brackish taste…