Tag: 2024
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Diamonds in the Darkness
by Matthew X. Gomez in Issue 144, January 2024 The call of seabirds dragged Liam the Black back to the land of the living. He blinked his eyes, gritty from sand, against the blazing ball of the sun overhead. His entire body ached, the victim of bludgeoning by waves and the detritus of the sea.…
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Peddler of Favours
by Matthew Owen Jones in Issue 144, January 2023 Jurgen walked through the maze of rain-soaked streets that he knew so well. The driving rain poured from the tiled roofs, bleeding into the gutters, across the cobbles and narrow alleys of the dock district. Few people would wander out in such weather without good reason, especially…