Tag: September
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The Pixie Thief
by Mark Rimar in Issue 32, September 2014 Boniface Praig’s head pounded and he belched up stale wine. He shouldn’t have drunk so much the night before a big job, but he’d needed the false courage. Robbing a wizard, even a dead one, was no small matter. From his perch upon a branch of an…
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The Young God’s Tears
by Jeffery A. Sergent in Issue 20, September 2013 Jade watched from the shadows and waited. Sweat rolled across her scalp, raising gooseflesh on her the back of her neck. She’d go insane if something didn’t happen soon. She needed to move, run, or even scream. That’d be something at least, and anything would be…
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The Carnival Man
by Alexandra Seidel in Issue 20, September 2013 The Grand Carnival is a revel of impossibilities come true and of the inexplicable parading through reality like a bride in flaring colors. It is held only once in every generation and all who see and participate in it (for it cannot be seen without becoming part…
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Kaxzorus the Liberator
by Kyle Bakke in Issue 8, September 2012 A solitary traveler, who was a tall, powerfully built man, strode across the rolling plain with a steady gait, leaving Valenduar behind him as he made his way into Oremednia. His destination was Armesskvalann, land of his birth, which lay several days’ march to the north of…
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Shadow of Ragnorok
by Rebecca Brown They gathered in close to their campfires, clustering body against body for what little warmth could be gleaned from one another’s flesh. It seemed sometimes that it would be so easy to forget, so easy to imagine that it had always been this way. Already, Eldgrim struggled to remember the way he…