Tag: Story
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The Scroll of Jadugara
by Jeffery A. Sergent in Issue 56, September 2016 The bottom level, the ninth, was nothing more than a circular floor about thirty feet in diameter. The stairs led upward and away from the deep-set chamber in an ever-widening spiral which was lost in the darkness, and at each of the eight levels above, a…
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Ex Libris
by Dan J. DeFazio In Issue 55, August 2016 Of all the gambling houses in the City of Dreadmoor, the Silver Moon was by far the most exclusive. While the lower-classes rolled the bones and watched grub-fights in the Greased Goat and The Shrieking Wife, the well-born and well-paid preferred the ambiance of The Silver Moon’s wood-paneled chambers. Here, among powdered wigs…
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Tools of God and Magic
by S. Creany in Issue 55, August 2016 Solene walked back from the bar’s outhouse, her mouth worked into a frown and a bit of paper crumpled in her big fist, to find Brigh being prattled at by a young girl. There was a desperate look to the girl: sallow skin, rough brown hair, a cheap…
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The Witch House
by Jamie Lackey in Issue 54, July 2016 Fat snowflakes drifted through the frigid air as I trudged along. Snow peppered my spectacles, leaving them fogged and just better than useless, and eerie stillness pressed in from all sides. I glanced at my hardly-legible notes, instructions cobbled together from a handful of third-hand accounts. The…
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Time Is a Lady’s Unerring Blade
by Stephen S. Power in Issue 54, July 2016 Anyone can buy a soul. Even the meanest villages have dealers now, and prices remain low, thanks to the border wars five years ago. To buy a specific soul, though, Erynd has to deal with a ghost taker. She hobbles through the Old Bridge Market, her…