Tag: November
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A Dragon’s Post
by Gabrielle Bleu in Issue 118, November 2021 Xyrlark Littleknight packed her bag with care in the sorting room of the Hallentrough Post Office. It was a little heavier than normal, since her route was a little longer than normal. She was picking up the second half of someone else’s route, due to unfortunate circumstances.…
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Fountain Homes
by Peter Medeiros in Issue 118, November 2021 Kerdimma counted six slavers around the boat. Five slavers and one navigator—the man she had been hired to recover. The slavers were loading their boat with enough food for a long trip, with barrels of honey ale and apple mash—she could smell both even crouched where the…
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The God in the Keep
by David A. Riley in Issue 118, November 2021 When Blexinian III was in the tenth year of his reign as ruler of the Bithanian Empire he outlawed the pagan gods his ancestors had worshipped for countless generations, condemning them as demons and declaring the Sun was the one and only true god, whose symbol…
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Green Fingers? The Garden in Fantasy Fiction
by John C. Adams in Issue 106, November 2020 For millennia, gardens have been the ideal location for sin and subterfuge, especially when competing forces clash for prestige and power without descending into open hostility. Where concealment is ranked above all else, the leafy avenues and closeted walls of a formal garden can be relied…
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The Safety of Thick Walls
by Gustavo Bondoni in Issue 106, November 2020 The sun set over the Romans to the west. Rasce smiled grimly at them, wondering whether they would enjoy the autumn mosquitoes outside Aritim, and whether they would die of fever or decide to stay camped outside the walls all winter. It was all the same to…
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The Goblin of Gelhalad
by Samuel Kennedy in Issue 106, November 2020 As the children gathered around the dim light of the fire, the old crone smiled at them through her broken, yellow teeth. When everyone had found a seat, a hush fell over the cave. And then the old woman began her story. “The outside world is full…