Tag: Story
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The Quiet Sisters
by Matthew Castleman in Issue 157, February 2025 Evening sun flashes orange darts into my eyes, and my boot toe strikes a stone so solidly moored in the ground it could be the tip of Lucifer’s horn. That sends me, on the run from Flemish mercenaries, already bleeding from a pike graze to the hip,…
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Burning Pig, Broken Tower
by Michael Meyerhofer in Issue 157, February 2025 By the time you reach the Arm of Heaven, you wish you’d just kept that burning pig to yourself. You’ve spent most of the war behind a shovel – a consequence of exiting your mother’s womb with one leg a bit shorter than the other – so…
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Shadows of the Forgotten Empire
by D. K. Latta in Issue 156, January 2025 The ruins spread before Tantos like the bleached bones of giants gleaming under the moonlight. His soldiers milled uncertainly about his horse, fidgeting nervously; he could even hear the restless stirring of their unkempt prisoners although they were at the rear of the procession. The company…
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The Hollowed Man
by David J. Lynch in Issue 156, January 2025 A ramshackle cart wobbled to a crooked rhythm down the city street. The wooden frame buckled under its grim cargo, this morning’s victims of the plague haunting the city of Galadia. A boy darted through the street, avoiding the web of muddy puddles as he went…
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Gargoyles
by Ryan M. Patrick in Issue 156, January 2025 “It’s sad, innit.” I sighed, a bead of sweat dripping down my long nose. I didn’t know how the laborers were able to function in the heat. “What’s sad?” “That they’re all coming down.” I shook my head. The man was likely wasting my time, malingering…
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Sharper than Steel, Colder than Death
by Robert Rhodes in Issue 156, January 2025 “They said I should be a hero. They said I could be a king. But all I wanted was to see the sunrise on your face. Every morning, Eleni …” He whispered those words, my lifelong friend—my blood-brother—Petyr Smith, and I was close enough to hear each…