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  • The Bargain of a Bard

    by Teel James Glenn in Issue 115, August 2021 A Story of Altiva The children in the cages no longer cried or yelled, their tears long dried, but with the stoic endurance and strength of frontier dwellers, they watched the ceremony and the deaths of the adults with only faint whimpers of resignation at their…

  • Death and Taxes

    by Owen G. Tabard in Issue 115, August 2021 1Although he had traveled widely throughout the empire during his years of itinerancy, never before had Hanno the philosopher seen such devastation as he now beheld. For days he and his companion, the warrior Thrax, had ridden the ancient highway, amid the half-ruined ziggurats that spoke…

  • Forging Independence

    by S. E. Lindberg in Issue 114, July 2021 “Put the ax down, Melanie.” “You check on my health, Doctor Grave?” My daughter laughed from behind shadows that curtained slithering, colossal larvae. The ancient larval wyrmen raised their anteriors to peer at me, much like their siblings had while spying my trek into the Underworld.…

  • The Drake and the Duchess

    by Shannon Walch in Issue 114, July 2021 ​Ten days past midwinter, a dragon attacked Castle Borwell.  Its habitants failed to notice. Said inhabitants were perhaps justified in this oversight given that Duke Borwick and his two sons had recently passed away in an unfortunate hunting incident.  Upheaval accompanies any sudden transfer of leadership, but…