Tag: Story
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The Pale Sparrow
by Fernando Medici in Issue 125, June 2022 I stirred the infusion and savored its honeyed smell, my first connection to the sacred realm. I mean, the Hallow Tea had never unveiled its mysteries to me, but I couldn’t bring myself to quit it. “Don’t waste your time with that poison, Laha,” Mother said. The…
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Lorelei
by Álex Souza in Issue 125, June 2022 “Another one?!” said the elder, his gloomy face lightened by the tent’s torches. He lowered his head and exhaled. For a moment, silence ensued; only the popping sounds of the fire could be heard. Boris, the elder’s only son, stared at his father and could feel the…
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Better with Age
by Alex Beecher in Issue 124, May 2022 The girl tending the bar offered me a shot of fermented fish liver oil before my beer, which is how I figured she was wise–it was winter, and dark, and soft bones followed the sun’s disappearance, this high and this far north–and then didn’t so much as…
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The Apotheosis of Sophi Undying
by S. Cameron David in Issue 124, May 2022 He passed the morning in meditation, communing on the Astral Plane. There he pondered the deeper mysteries of magic and metaphysics and all manner of truth which never could I hope to grasp. And how could I? My master had drawn breath for a thousand years–Sophi…
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The Mouse that Roared
by Geoffry Hart in Issue 124, May 2022 The barbarian infant was premature, and given her small size and mottled pink and purple complexion, her mother named her Souris, the word for mouse in their tongue. Like most of the villagers, subtlety was not among the mother’s virtues. Subtlety, for them, was ringing a pommel off…