Tag: Story
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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…
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The Rescue Job
by Matthew Cropley in Issue 53, June 2016 “This is stupid,” I groaned, peering at the moonlit mansion from inside a scratchy bush. “But worth it if we stand a chance of saving him,” Chif said, crouched beside me in the undergrowth. I grunted as my gaze flicked over the manicured garden ahead, assessing the best approach,…