Tag: Story
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Sister Avenger
by Teel James Glenn in Issue 108, January 2021 A Story of Altiva Chapter I.Extortion “Bring General Torvad to us to kill or the girl dies,” the whispered voice rasped. No face accompanied the voice, only a vague shape swathed in tattered cloth that seemed to fade in and out of existence in the flickering…
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Child o’ Mine
by Dorothy Winsor in Issue 108, January 2021 Alitha leaned over to pick up the water bucket, then struggled erect, hand on her belly. The baby was kicking again. “Soon, sweetheart,” she murmured and stepped outside into the clearing Taemas had cut to build their cabin. Beyond it, the trees of the Wildlands loomed with…
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The Puppet Paramour
by Garrett Boatman in Issue 107, December 2020 The burning sands scorched Ramadym’s unshod feet and the unrelenting sun lashed his naked back as he pushed over the infinite succession of dunes. He had ridden across the vast wasteland all the day and night before, and when his horse died of exhaustion ere dawn that…
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The Harvest
by David Ferguson in Issue 107, December 2020 The room was small, with a homespun quilt thrown across the door. Orinia pushed it aside as she entered. Inside the room, Kev sat on his haunches, head turned away from what lay on the floor in front of him. She cleared her throat uneasily. Kev looked…
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At the Feet of Poteauje
by Jeffery Scott Sims in Issue 107, December 2020 In the highlands of north-western Greece, verging on the marches of Macedonia, in those olden times the itinerant wizard Jacob Bleek followed as best he could the map imprinted on the parchment sold him dearly at Athens by the astute but vulgar Turk. Not a mage…
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The Safety of Thick Walls
by Gustavo Bondoni in Issue 106, November 2020 The sun set over the Romans to the west. Rasce smiled grimly at them, wondering whether they would enjoy the autumn mosquitoes outside Aritim, and whether they would die of fever or decide to stay camped outside the walls all winter. It was all the same to…