Tag: 2020
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Bringing Down the Mountain
by J. N. Cameron I cannot sleep because of the noise. Forays of sleet howl down the mountains and crash into the vale. Wattle walls shake, and the red clay cracks. Detritus snows from the ceiling, as wind whistles through the aperture high in the apex of our langhús. “BLAHAHAHA…BLAHAHA!” the goats shriek and cause the…
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Bounty
by Daniel J. Elliot in Issue 97, February 2020 They weren’t the best sort of people. The Drifters spent most of the year traveling by caravan from city to town, town to village, and back up again. They brought goods, gossip, mail, and the odd passenger. They also engaged in less savory work, though not…
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The Destiny Bureau
by William Broom in Issue 96, January 2020 Five men stood around the oracle, each of them covered by thick leather from head to toe. Their gloves, coats, boots and hoods were all of a single piece, to protect them from the luminescent vapours rising from the fissure in the chamber’s floor. Across their mouths…
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A Brief Pause Between Floods
by J. Tynan Burke in Issue 96, January 2020 There are monks in the far west who you may have heard of, called Harvesters. They teach that every day changes your life forever. Of course, some days change it more than others; this is about one of those days. I was sixteen, a good age for it.…