Tag: 2018
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Gina
by Gustavo Bondoni in Issue 77, June 2018 The girl – young, voluptuous, nubile and dressed only in streaks of ceremonial paint –screamed and struggled. She tried to scratch at the jailer’s eyes, but the enormous man simply swatted her attempts aside as he pulled her inexorably towards the red glow of the pit. A…
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A Little Blood, a Little Fire
by S. K. Farrell in Issue 77, June 2018 She was seven, when I first realised. Seven, or thereabouts. Now, don’t get that look. I know I should remember the age of my own daughter, should have been cherishing every moment, but it was complicated back then. It was before her mother ruined my business and had…
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Remnants
by Lynn Rushlau in Issue 76, May 2018 A now tattered fairy, Caellery pushed wearily through the gate. Though impossible at this distance, she swore she could still hear the thump of the drums and wail of guitars from the Festival of Liberation. The party would go on until dawn. Without her. She tripped over the…
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Spellbreaker
by Dan Morley in Issue 76, May 2018 He curled into a ball, his arms wrapped tightly around himself while he shivered on the ground, his flesh sloughing off in green and purple trails. Asmarean magic. Spectres tormented his mind while throbbing pain wracked his body. It felt wrong, diseased, foul, like he was being…