Tag: November
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Two Silvers for a Song of Blood
by Jason Ray Carney in Issue 82, November 2018 In the city of Re, thirty mask-wearing oligarchs rule. They are the silver-faced lords, heirs to the blood of the most ancient and respected pilgrim-families that pitched the first sad tents of the settlement that bloomed into Re over the course of several hundreds of war-bloodied…
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They Would Be Brothers
by Sean Jones in Issue 82, November 2018 Unlike most army snipers, I grew up without longbow or arbalest in my hands. The first time I handled a crossbow? It was the Year of the Piebald Horse. I was nearly twelve and my father was home on furlough from the war with the Ravnens. My…
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The Bane of the Sword Rulers: A Review of ‘Corum- The Coming of Chaos’
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 82, November 2018 2018 “There are more things in heaven and earth, HoratioThan are dreamt of in your philosophy.”-Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio In 1971, Michael Moorcock started a new fantasy series starring Corum Jhaelen Irsei, the Prince in the Scarlet Robe. The White Wolf omnibus edition, The Coming of Chaos, is…
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The Work to Which I Put My Hands
by Mary Alexandra Agner in Issue 70, November 2017 The fires under my skin burn less and the tightness eases out of my sternum as I walk. Hisra and Fre, the mother goddesses, are making it clear I am moving in the right direction: toward the mesa in my visions from Hisra, straight through the…
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Out of Dijau
by A. S. Alexander in Issue 70, November 2017 The tall grass was like a field of knives, marking Nnene’s dark skin red. There was no time to worry about such things, though. Things would be much worse if she did not keep moving. Despite the danger they brought, she did not hate the centaurs. It…