Tag: March
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Calling Fire
by Jarod K. Anderson in Issue 14, March 2013 Nothing burned like the grasslands. I should know. The place was hungry for fire. It begged for it in a dry, rustling language that called me from the green hills. It always seemed to know me –to know that I was the one who heard its…
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God of the Mountaintop
by John Grover in Issue 14, March 2013 Women wept on the side of the road. Smoldering debris littered the horizon while soot and black smoke choked the air. Wagons were reduced to splinters and homes were decimated. The outskirts of the small mountainside village were but a preview of what waited ahead. Dorrin and…
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Redwater
by Noeleen Kavanagh in Issue 2, March 2012 Sorcha was woken in the dark and the cold. She took a moment to recognise the man who shook her awake and she jerked back from him. “Griana says to come quick. The cows are coming down with redwater,” he said. “What? What? Why?” “She said you…
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‘Hel’ Awaits
by David J. West in Issue 2, March 2012 Swift as Thor’s thrown hammer, the tawny-haired giant of a Northman dropped the plank, barring the alabaster-framed door against the caliph of Andalusia’s other guardians. Immediately, the puzzled but dedicated Almohadian bodyguards pounded on the oaken doors demanding entry. Only the voluptuous harem remained with the…