Tag: Story
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Ebb & Flow
by David Samuels in Issue 95. December 2019 The Southsea Shadow15 Month of Cosmic Vespers | Afternoon My stomach growled in mutiny as I prepared to toss our last loaf of bread over the walls and into the sea. Hopelessly outnumbered and marooned without escape, my crew and I had nothing left in our arsenal…
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Songs for Fools and Children
by Maike Claussnitzer in Issue 94, November 2019 I first saw Orm the Skald again after the hall of Straela-by-the-Sound had burned to the ground, when my lord Ragnar picked his way through smoke and ruin to claim what was his by the sword now. It might have been his by inheritance, had his grandmother…
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The Bard at the Bronze Falcon
by Chad A. B. Wilson in Issue 94, November 2019 Kline moved to the side table and took the decanter in his left hand. “I assume you don’t object?” “At midday? Of course not.” Brock moved to join him. The brown liquid poured into the glass, two fingers tall. Brock drank. Kline was worth a…
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Spread Your Wings
by John C. Adams in Issue 93, October 2019 Bored, Crown Princess Riley thought, fighting the urge to kick her heels against the wooden chair. The young wife gazed around the great hall at Liosmor. Her new father-in-law, Padraig o’Eira, snuck a stern glance at her out of the side of his eye and Riley sighed.…
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Iced
by Gustavo Bondoni in Issue 93, October 2019 A toe in the ribs, viciously applied, brought Sangr awake. He was about to snap at the owner of the foot when some memory of the night before came back to him and self-preservation kicked in. Lunk was a big man, and he’d been kind enough to…