Tag: Story
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Behind the Curtain
by Joanna Michal Hoyt in Issue 98, March 2020 I can’t tell you how it started. My first entrance came late in the play, with the kingdom tottering and all the conspirators well into their parts. But I’ll tell the part I was there for as if it was a play of its own, starring—well,…
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Sunset House
by J. J. Adamson in Issue 97, February 2020 There were two reasons I had never visited The Sunset House. The first, and some will say the most obvious, is that Sunset House is nearly inaccessible, situated on a cliff, nearly overhanging the oceans. Inland swamps of black mud and stinking sulfur keep out foot…
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Bringing Down the Mountain
by J. N. Cameron I cannot sleep because of the noise. Forays of sleet howl down the mountains and crash into the vale. Wattle walls shake, and the red clay cracks. Detritus snows from the ceiling, as wind whistles through the aperture high in the apex of our langhús. “BLAHAHAHA…BLAHAHA!” the goats shriek and cause the…
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Bounty
by Daniel J. Elliot in Issue 97, February 2020 They weren’t the best sort of people. The Drifters spent most of the year traveling by caravan from city to town, town to village, and back up again. They brought goods, gossip, mail, and the odd passenger. They also engaged in less savory work, though not…
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The Destiny Bureau
by William Broom in Issue 96, January 2020 Five men stood around the oracle, each of them covered by thick leather from head to toe. Their gloves, coats, boots and hoods were all of a single piece, to protect them from the luminescent vapours rising from the fissure in the chamber’s floor. Across their mouths…