Tag: September
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Can’t Find My Way Home—A Review of ‘Weirdworld Volume 1: Where Lost Things Go’
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 92, September 2019 2019As far as bad days go, high school senior Becca Rodriguez is having a pretty crap one. While en route to Mexico to inter her mother’s ashes, her flight takes a permanent detour. The passengers are pulled through a planar vortex into the realm known as Weirdworld.…
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After the Dragon
by Janie Brunson in Issue 80, September 2018 “So,” said Darius, lowering his magic flute to survey the mountain of treasure, “how are we going to carry all of this?” I didn’t feel like answering just then, mostly because I was still coming to terms with the fact that one of my eyebrows and a…
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Tail Slayer
by Andrew Jensen in Issue 80, September 2018 This wouldn’t have happened when I was young. As a young man I respected older warriors. I blame our new king. He’s a Christian. He even calls himself “King Christian.” Our whole land is growing soft. I don’t mean OLD warriors. We didn’t have any of those.…
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The Only Story That Matters: My Thoughts on Skald, Cycle One
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 80, September 2018 2018The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term skald as “(in ancient Scandinavia) a composer and reciter of poems honoring heroes and their deeds”. (1) The ancient Greek counterparts of the Scandinavian skalds, poets such as Homer and Apollonius of Rhodes, composed timeless works of art chronicling the…
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The Thirst of Untus
by Sam Beaven in Issue 68, September 2017 My name is Lossn. I am a failure. I sat across the table from the too-fat man who sweated in the heat, decadently shedding water through his brown skin, typical of the cultured city-folk. He wouldn’t last long in the desert, he would be abandoned by his tribe.…