Tag: August

  • Mordock’s Daughter

    by Tom Howard in Issue 127, August 2022 The moment Izak the Traveler saw the girl’s violet eyes, he knew he had to save her.  He’d stopped before sunset at an inn on the King’s Highway. The place was simple but clean. The long common room held wooden tables situated around the giant hearth in…

  • The Gem

    by David Starobin in Issue 127, August 2022 It was no ordinary wizard’s tower. But then again, he was no ordinary burglar. At nearly six-and-a-half feet in height and nearly eighteen stone, it was an improbable occupation for him. But he had held many improbable occupations in his young life: master sergeant in His August…

  • The Bargain of a Bard

    by Teel James Glenn in Issue 115, August 2021 A Story of Altiva The children in the cages no longer cried or yelled, their tears long dried, but with the stoic endurance and strength of frontier dwellers, they watched the ceremony and the deaths of the adults with only faint whimpers of resignation at their…

  • Death and Taxes

    by Owen G. Tabard in Issue 115, August 2021 1Although he had traveled widely throughout the empire during his years of itinerancy, never before had Hanno the philosopher seen such devastation as he now beheld. For days he and his companion, the warrior Thrax, had ridden the ancient highway, amid the half-ruined ziggurats that spoke…