Tag: Story
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Gingerbread Woods
by Cameron Kirk in Issue 85, February 2019 Darkness was fractured by fire, and as the fire grew, it pushed back the cold blanket of night. The new-born radiance painted in glowing timbre three men in a forest clearing, two seated and the third lying on a makeshift stretcher upon the pine needles, a bloodied…
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Countdown
by Joshua Alexander in Issue 84, January 2019 As I gazed past the grimy bars of my prison cell to the somehow-grimier wall beyond, I was reminded precisely why I avoided cities. The dusty backwater provinces I usually haunted had little wealth, but they also had fewer jails. I could hear a madman babbling to…
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Popina 79
by Russel Hemmell in Issue 84, January 2019 Livia kicked away fish bones and chicken rests from the cooking area’s dirty floor, tossing water and salt to wash away dried blood and cover the inevitable stench. That laggard of Attis had again forgotten to clean up. She’d have to give him a few lashes as…
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Clashing Blades
by Lawrence Raphael Brothers in Issue 83, December 2018 The dashing capitaine des fusiliers who called herself La Panthère glanced covertly at the sorcière de la Lune and smiled nastily. It was a chance encounter with her rival at the sumptuous sideboard of the Casino D’Or, one of the fancier gambling houses on the right…
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Festival of Rogues
by David Waid in Issue 83, December 2018 What was to become the most intemperate and inglorious debauch in the history of Nuboe commenced as any other festival might, swathed in tradition and observance of the country’s old forms. Rowan Stilko disembarked from his blossom-festooned chariot to the accompaniment of the crowd’s full-throated cheers. On…