Tag: October
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Forged in Heaven, Tempered in Hell
by James Lecky in Issue 21, October 2013 Ardess was on fire, the winter’s night as sweltering as the cruellest summer drought, the streets clogged with thick, rancid smoke. Blades gleamed in the infernal darkness, rallying cries echoed through laneways and avenues, all but lost in the roar of the flames and the crash of…
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Right of Ultissima
by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt in Issue 21, October 2013 At the third kick the door gave way. A sword thrust into the splintered opening. It dripped a green ichor that hissed as it hit the stone floor. A moment later the owner of the sword stood in the doorway, her strong frame silhouetted by the…
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Winter’s Debt
by T. Fox Dunham in Issue 9, October 2012 I dream at night of a woman with damp black hair and skin like ice to the touch. She dances in a circle wearing a dressing of dripping ice, and when the water leaks down and touches Her flesh, it freezes into diamonds. I wake this morning with the chill…
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The Wheel of Dargalon
by Jeffery Scott Sims in Issue 9, October 2012 Lord Morca, exalted mage of the fair city of Dyrezan, once went forth into unknown lands in search of the fabled Scroll of Ixaltas, which delivers unto its bearer prized secrets of forgotten primordial epochs; yet he was destined not to find it– at least not…
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‘Imaro’ by Charles Saunders, a Review
by Jeremy Harper in Issue 9, October 2012 At A Glance Among them will come The Child of Wonder And they will Know him not. This edition of Imaro is a trade paperback produced by Night Shade Books (2006), a small press based in San Francisco. The cover, by Vince Evans, is quite striking, depicting Imaro holding…