Category: Content Posts
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Misattributed: Never Judge a Grimoire by Its Cover
by Ray Bossert in Issue 85, February 2019 By the mouth of a cave, a large ogress rested an elbow on her club, scratching her coarse chin as she considered the party of four travelers standing before her. One of the party, in gleaming white body armor and a white cape, stood forward from the…
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The Hound
by Paithan Campbell in Issue 85, February 2019 “Don’t start any trouble, you hear? Keep your sword in its sheath. Orithe is a decent city.” Machtir looked around, and although he saw no city he nodded at the gate guard. A word like city implied stone structures, cobbled streets and some sense of building plan.…
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Gingerbread Woods
by Cameron Kirk in Issue 85, February 2019 Darkness was fractured by fire, and as the fire grew, it pushed back the cold blanket of night. The new-born radiance painted in glowing timbre three men in a forest clearing, two seated and the third lying on a makeshift stretcher upon the pine needles, a bloodied…
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Countdown
by Joshua Alexander in Issue 84, January 2019 As I gazed past the grimy bars of my prison cell to the somehow-grimier wall beyond, I was reminded precisely why I avoided cities. The dusty backwater provinces I usually haunted had little wealth, but they also had fewer jails. I could hear a madman babbling to…