Tag: Story
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The Hero of Glasire
by Becca Dwight in Issue 160, May 2025 The latest rebel venture in the city had been a snatch-and-grab, and the General made my team, but mostly just me, stay behind. So our first glimpse of Tema Blystone, Baron of Moorac, Hero of Glasire, the fabled Hero Foretold, was through the slit into the veritable…
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The Ferryman
by Krista Farmer in Issue 160, May 2025 Ben had hardly finished stringing up the last of the day’s catch when a man, striding down the boardwalk, came calling out to him, “Fisherman! Fisherman, here! I’ve a proposition for you!” Ben looked out from underneath his low-roofed stall. He could still feel the dull ache…
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The Cats and the Crimson
by Rab Foster in Issue 159, April 2025 Two old men were in the room. One was a barber-surgeon. About to perform surgery, not barbery, he bent over the other man, who was in a chair. He inserted into his patient’s mouth an instrument with a claw that clamped onto rotten teeth and a fulcrum…
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Edward Fish’s Folly
by Zachary Olson in Issue 159, April 2025 The solitary law that binds Gran Marche’s thieves is this: only filch what you can flip. It is a law in truth more pragmatic than moral, for even in Gran Marche–which straddles the Turquoise and Citrine Seas, bobbing in the Lowan Bayou’s outer edge, where it is…
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Grave of Kings
by C. W. Stevenson in Issue 159, April 2025 Marrian stalked his prey from the shadows, crouching low amidst the shrubs and small trees of the arid land. He made himself shrink further into the dead grass. A mage and his acolytes. The bald mage tore a hunk of bread before passing it around the…
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Kerta Waja’s Shadow
by Fendy Satria Tulodo in Issue 159, April 2025 You are running. The night is thick like clotted blood, and the scent of burning rice fields sticks to your skin. The wind, heavy with the whispers of restless spirits, pushes against you. Somewhere behind, the creature howls—a sound not of this world, something neither beast…