Tag: 2013
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The Snow Mage
by M. R. Timson in Issue 15, April 2013 The snow clotted on the ground like blood in a wound. From his vantage point halfway up Mount Atinos, Roland could see the smoke curling up from the chimneys of Wintersholm, crowded by a penumbra of evergreens on the southern edge of the valley. He picked…
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Calling Fire
by Jarod K. Anderson in Issue 14, March 2013 Nothing burned like the grasslands. I should know. The place was hungry for fire. It begged for it in a dry, rustling language that called me from the green hills. It always seemed to know me –to know that I was the one who heard its…
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God of the Mountaintop
by John Grover in Issue 14, March 2013 Women wept on the side of the road. Smoldering debris littered the horizon while soot and black smoke choked the air. Wagons were reduced to splinters and homes were decimated. The outskirts of the small mountainside village were but a preview of what waited ahead. Dorrin and…
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Odin’s Mirror
by Andrew Knighton in Issue 13, February 2013 Two great polished mirrors faced each other across the stone space of Odin’s hall. Stood between them, his face repeated again and again in the silvered surfaces, Thorvald was reminded of the priest at the entrance. ‘Within Odin’s hall,’ the priest had said as he placed Thorvald’s…