Tag: Story
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Two Silvers for a Song of Blood
by Jason Ray Carney in Issue 82, November 2018 In the city of Re, thirty mask-wearing oligarchs rule. They are the silver-faced lords, heirs to the blood of the most ancient and respected pilgrim-families that pitched the first sad tents of the settlement that bloomed into Re over the course of several hundreds of war-bloodied…
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They Would Be Brothers
by Sean Jones in Issue 82, November 2018 Unlike most army snipers, I grew up without longbow or arbalest in my hands. The first time I handled a crossbow? It was the Year of the Piebald Horse. I was nearly twelve and my father was home on furlough from the war with the Ravnens. My…
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A Magical Education
by Kristen Brand in Issue 81, October 2018 The alchemist trudged into the tavern, stopping to scrape the snow off his boots. He was almost too tired to bother, but his manners beat his exhaustion in a contest of strength. The others waved from their regular table in the back, and the alchemist slogged over…
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Bright Young Thing
by J. A. Prentice in Issue 81, October 2018 Faraj beheld Death and was unafraid. She could feel its breath upon her neck. It was in the cloying curls of sweet assaji, the dream-flower, drifting through the tent in an intoxicating cloud. It was in the great fans rising and falling like the wings of hunting…
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And Sleet Engenders Flame
by J. B. Toner in Issue 81, October 2018 1 Only the dead are safe, and Death’s Lane was a well-lit street in a prosperous part of town. Hanging lanterns, redolent of myrrh, lined the cobbled avenue that led to the Final Temple; grave and dark-clad companies of pilgrims came and went. The moon was…