Tag: Story
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Eternal
by E. Florian Gludovacz in Issue 158, March 2025 The sword slid into the wyvern’s side with a gristly crunch, grating against ribs before the point finally connected with the creature’s heart. The reptile gave a final, agonised shriek, spat a last ball of flame and collapsed into a scaly heap. Cjhoregg lifted his shield…
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Shield of the Glasslaw
by Isobel Mackenzie in Issue 158, March 2025 Mishai rode six days in bad weather to swear to the Stone Queen, and found, when she arrived, that no one cared. The Stone Queen had raised her banner at the foot of the summer mountain pass, a flat plain that spent the winter as tundra and…
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Shade, Skin, Heart
by Kevin Beckett in Issue 157, February 2025 The sorrow of knowing he would never see his cousin again turned his back on the river Styx. The ferryman still held out a skeletal arm, bony talons outstretched for the two coppers Patroclus had in his own hands. He looked at them. They each had etched…
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In the Time of Discord
by Gustavo Bondoni in Issue 157, February 2025 Blasted trees, the remains of what had once been a lush forest, lined the path. The few stumps that still stood were charred, blackened by some unimaginable wrath. I wrapped my shawl tighter around my shoulders; the autumn breeze was cool, but the surroundings sent a chill…
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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…