Tag: Story
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The Cursed Woods
by Matthew Ilseman in Issue 147, April 2024 The corpse hung limply in the tree. A large branch impaled it through the chest. Blood covered the branch and fell in droplets on the forest floor. Aleron the warrior-priest stared up at it. He pulled his crimson cloak around himself. A sword and a seax knife…
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The Spectral Hunt
by Jared Kerr in Issue 147, April 2024 Father Samuel shivered as he walked, his breath seeming to freeze in the air around him. Midnight was not the time to be wandering, especially in winter, but the bishop’s letter had stated concretely what Samuel was to do if he wished his parish cleansed. A creak…
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The Bequest
by Sandra Unerman in Issue 147, April 2024 The room was more crowded than Jan had ever seen it. The old woman’s sons and their wives, grandchildren and cousins, avoided each other’s glances. They did not fidget or murmur, keen to hear every word as the clerk read the long, complicated will aloud. Jan leaned…
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The River Tokoloshe
by D. J. Tyrer in Issue 146, March 2024 The tall, lean youth who had arrived at the musha of five huts on the scrubby hillside had given no name save Ini-ndoga, ‘I Alone’, to the men who led him to sit upon the dusty red earth before the hut of the village elder. As…
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Greys and Smokes and Silvers and Steels
by Sean Jones in Issue 146, March 2024 My heart quickened and bile burned my throat as the door before me shuddered open. From the arena, the roar of the echoing throng, the flickering light of scores of torches, the hostility of the crowd, the dread of facing a potent spellcaster, they penetrated my chamber.…