Tag: July
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The Land of Sun
by T. S. Lance in Issue 78, July 2018 Timber-framed, wattle and daub apartments crowded the cobblestone streets, leaving scarcely enough room for one carriage to pass another. Charming little shops filled the bottom floor of every building. I pushed my way through the market and around an oxcart driver unloading crates of leeks and…
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Fish Out of Water
by Anna Cates in Issue 66, July 2017 “You’re the sleaziest bucket of fish guts I’ve ever seen.” “Gee, thanks.” Inchel laughed. “I didn’t realize I looked that good.” The elf boy’s ashy skin peeped through holes in fishnet stockings cladding his bony thighs beneath leather shorts. He ambled awkwardly in his chunky-heeled girly boots.…
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The High Throne
by James Van Pelt in Issue 66, July 2017 Rudd sat uneasily on the high throne. A line of supplicants with a scroll or basket or bag in hand and an earnest look about them stretched from the dais’s base to the towering oak doors. Terryn, the Lord High Steward, put his hand on Rudd’s…
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The Witch House
by Jamie Lackey in Issue 54, July 2016 Fat snowflakes drifted through the frigid air as I trudged along. Snow peppered my spectacles, leaving them fogged and just better than useless, and eerie stillness pressed in from all sides. I glanced at my hardly-legible notes, instructions cobbled together from a handful of third-hand accounts. The…