Tag: Story
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The Bloody Briar
by Ali Abbas in Issue 161, June 2025 Jan cursed as his spear tip jarred in the dense foliage. Steel chimed on a hard surface. The broad trail left by the boar veered sharply left as it, too, had been forced to change course. He dropped to his haunches to read the spoor. The boar…
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A Black Mile To The Surface
by Chris Bissette in Issue 161, June 2025 The potion the witch forced on him was taking effect already. Gillan’s lips were tingling, the skin of his face drawing tight over his skull. He felt focused, readied, like a drawn bowstring in the moment before release. He had forgotten how to blink. Twenty minutes, she…
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Ambush in Herezan
by William Morris in Issue 161, June 2025 “I did what you said, now gimme the money!” “You’ve had your cash, bitch, now scram!” The first voice was Tery. It had to be. A shrill, scrawny wildcat of a thing, giving out her dubious favours for a few silver talens, or a neck of grain…
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Up the Road
by Daniel A. Rabuzzi in Issue 161, June 2025 Currents of heat roiled up from the caravan halted on the road below, carrying the odor of alien salts. “As if the twilight itself has grown sullen,” thought Tad (short for “Tadileqs”). “Grexical airs from a devil’s bunghole,” thought his cousin, Cheese. No one could remember…
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The Fishheart Ruby
by Sam Belleneuve in Issue 160, May 2025 Axad moored his dinghy to the arm-long spur of rock that reached straight up from the water near the edge of the barren, craggy island that rose in the center of Lake Mreehan. The spur happened to mark the location of the relatively safer of the two…
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Howl Rising
by Kirsty Campbell in Issue 160, May 2025 No one will notice, she thinks. They are too busy adding bodies to the smoking heap. There is still much to do. They must find the gold, the ruby-hilted blades, the gleaming mail-coats, before they set the gabled hall ablaze. In all the chaos, her presence will…