Tag: Story
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The Emperor’s Encounter
by Samuel Kennedy in Issue 105, October 2020 It’s never easy waiting for a coronation. Especially when it’s your own. I sigh heavily. My breath and the soft tread of my feet are the only sounds to be heard here. At this depth, I can’t hear the celebrations taking place in the city above me.…
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Sir Jervis Ends His Retirement
by Harold R. Thompson in Issue 105, October 2020 I didn’t get tired of the killing. You know that wasn’t it, not for me. I got tired of fighting the same enemies, the same villains, the same assholes. Not the exact same assholes, but the same type of guys. Over and over. So after I…
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In the Dust, In the Cool Tombs
by Ethan Cade Varnado in Issue 105, October 2020 The Thracian Zagrios came at last to the tombs. Twelve mudbrick monoliths, houses without doors or windows, monuments to kings long-dead, their names lost along with the very language neatly etched into the tomb-face. Time had rendered these towers little more than shade against the scorching…
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Etcher’s Crucible
by Rex Caleval in Issue 104, September 2020 Now that I’m ready to find out if this works, it seems less like a good idea. I was certain it was brilliant when I conceived it, sitting in the tavern while my employers, may their bleached bones lie in the Sands Eternal, conversed with a digger…
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Coin
by Matthew C. Lucas in Issue 104, September 2020 The clerk considered the copper coin lying before him on the table. The edges were ridged, as they should be. The emblem on its face, a hammer, pick, and sword, had been rubbed smooth from countless grubbing fingers and the passage of time. There was a…