Tag: Story
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Princess in a Bottle
by Christopher G. Hall in Issue 60, January 2017 Cat-eye Jack savored the ale as best he could, despite the fact that he was light of purse and heavy of head. His latest misadventure had cost him every coin he had—and it had nearly cost him his life. It turned out that the so-called “notorious…
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The Sword Imperial
by James Van Pelt in Issue 60, January 2017 As he had for the last year, Hndred chopped wood and built fences and cleaned the stables for old Bakken the innskeeper. The young man worked a month before he’d earned enough credit to pay for an evening in the The Broken Beast. He left his…
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Only the Guilty Live
by Robert Mammone in Issue 60, January 2017 When the Cataphracts came for Marduk, he sat sprawled amidst the splintered remains of a table and chairs, the unconscious and bloodied bodies of several men beside him. ‘Beetles,’ Marduk shouted, his voice slurred. He took a swig from his mug then dashed it ringing across the…
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Getting Better
by Rob Francis in Issue 59, December 2016 “They dead?” Agris squinted at the sun, the rictus that passed for a smile on his battered face making him seem almost a corpse himself. Leos looked down on the two withered bodies by the side of the dirt track, flaking skin stretched and taut enough to see the…
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Smoke Out
by Melanie Smith in Issue 59, December 2016 It wasn’t the dragons that were the problem, it was the unicorns. Sure enough, the dragons weren’t easy: they leaked out hot streams of copper alloy piss as they undulated in the air above the town, which spattered down on the houses below to start the odd…