Category: Content Posts
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Still Ciela
by Lynn Rushlau in Issue 91, August 2019 Groaning, I dropped the last of the boxes atop the stack in the alley and glanced at the sun. Winced and looked away, blinded. Nearly dusk. I needed to leave. The sun would drop under the horizon soon, and I knew better than to go out past…
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Jack Eternal—A Review THE LAY OF OLD HEX: SPECTRAL BALLADS & WEIRD JACK TALES by Adam Bolivar
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 91. August 2019 2019I first heard of Adam Bolivar in the wonderful Clark Ashton Smith documentary, The Emperor of Dreams. Prior to watching this documentary, it was unbeknownst to me that in California, there is a long standing tradition of poets producing works in the Romantic style. George Sterling, active during…
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The Barakoth of Glendor
by Samuel Kennedy in Issue 90, July 2019 There wasn’t even a ripple on the stagnant water. The Battle of the Southern Guilds had taken place less than a week earlier, and the plains of Polmarta were still littered with the bodies of the fallen, but Duna was already almost a hundred miles away. Surrounded…
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Fortune Favors
by T. R. North in Issue 90, July 2019 The peddler adjusted the broad brim of his floppy hat and tugged at the reins in his hand. The horses pulling his wagon came to a halt, gears in their knees and shoulders straining at the sudden stop. A soft puff of steam escaped their nostrils,…