Tag: 2023
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Brexit 409 AD
by George S. Walker in Issue 141, October 2023 It was a rainy summer evening as Cerridwen led Lucius and the centurion into the abandoned mine. The Briton’s red hair, plaited in braids, slapped against the dirty wet wool of her tunic, stretched over her pregnant belly. Lucius was proud the centurion had chosen him,…
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The Travelling Fayre of Señor Monteluz comes to the Occidental Archipelago
by J. M. Cyrus in Issue 140, September 2023 Mino was alone when he saw the fayre’s boats round the rocky stacks and arches at the north end of his island. He stood at the top of a scrubby, bouldered hill, and watched the colourful vessels round the formations, and into the wide enclosure of…
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The Towers of Death
by Zephyr Dorsey in Issue 140, September 2023 His beard flowed down his chest, stiff and tangled, like a stream of wire hangers. His clothes hung from him in tattered strips. Lightning flashed in his eyes. A wild look. He kept to the vicinity of the Community House, speaking only gibberish and gesticulating excitedly. When…
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Acosar
by Jonathan Olfert in Issue 140, September 2023 Parok’s Well: a caravanserai, an enclosed camp along the salt trail from the corpse of Old Jegest to ravenous new kingdoms. For a caravaneer, Parok’s Well is a waypoint like any other in the Five Deserts: a milestone to dream about, and then to forget. Forget, too,…