Tag: 2018

  • Enough to Matter

    by Jamie Lackey in Issue 75, April 2018 Every girl in our kingdom is born with a bit of beauty. I was born with very little. Kiahna was born with almost enough to matter. She sat by a window, working on her mending, the sunshine glowing golden in her braided hair. I was memorizing her freckles…

  • The Penitent

    by Harry Piper in Issue 75, April 2018 The walled town Llew and Rhodri still found themselves in after a fortnight of inaction was a damp, sad little place. Every morning they awoke to great rivers of fog flowing through the streets and a gentle but constant rainfall above their heads. Buildings and people both…

  • By Fist and Sword: A Review of ‘Weird Tales of Horror’, by David J. West

    by Anthony Perconti in Issue 75, April 2018 March 2018 The David J. West short story and poetry collection, Weird Tales of Horror is a sampling of various types of genre fiction, ranging from the historical all the way to science fiction, with the common through line of the supernatural represented in each. In these pages you…

  • The Verdigris Caper (Being a Small Part of the Chronicles of Runyon, Wizard of Zedikteer-by-the-Raging-Sea, as Related in the Ancient Hep-Talk)

    by James Lecky in Issue 74, March 2018 Now this story begins, as do so many in my life, with me fleeing from the Wrath Of… No ordinary Wrath Of…, you understand. Certainly nothing so minuscule as the Wrath Of Thorvos the Lender (to whom I find myself owing many berries on occasion) nor anything…