Tag: September
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A Dance with Dragon’s Volume 2: After the Feast, by George R. R. Martin
by John C. Adams in Issue 104, September 2020 This is the most recent installment in the long-running and hugely popular ‘A Game of Thrones’ series, also known as ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’. For anyone who isn’t familiar with the books and their accompanying TV adaptation, the idea of jumping in partway through a…
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Etcher’s Crucible
by Rex Caleval in Issue 104, September 2020 Now that I’m ready to find out if this works, it seems less like a good idea. I was certain it was brilliant when I conceived it, sitting in the tavern while my employers, may their bleached bones lie in the Sands Eternal, conversed with a digger…
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Coin
by Matthew C. Lucas in Issue 104, September 2020 The clerk considered the copper coin lying before him on the table. The edges were ridged, as they should be. The emblem on its face, a hammer, pick, and sword, had been rubbed smooth from countless grubbing fingers and the passage of time. There was a…
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When Sea Dragons Fly
by Bonnie Elizabeth in Issue 92, September 2019 I was eaten by a sea dragon when I was twelve. It’s the only story my student seekers want to hear about. That, and why I live near the top of a mountain, where the skies rain down hot lava three hours out of each day, forcing…
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What Every Thief Knows
by Joette M. Rozanski in Issue 92, September 2019 Quality Likes to See You Grovel Digger told her to just pop the eater’s head off his shoulders, but of course she wouldn’t listen. Hesper was a fair-minded woman with morals, which would someday, Digger was fairly certain, become her fatal flaw. The eater, his dark…