Tag: May
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The Black Cult of Tarantium
by Mike Adamson in Issue 136, May 2023 The Tarantium River rose in the high, cold Mendolacian Mountains, far to the northwest, and irrigated the mild and temperate lands of Avestium in its meander to the Inland Sea. On the fertile planes the ever-fresh melt-waters had provided for a great and noble civilisation, and the…
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In the Attic of the Mountain King
by Dan Crawford in Issue 136, May 2023 They were coming at him from all sides! Fingers outstretched, they could hardly miss him. With bare seconds to choose his course, he threw his hands up in front of his face. This kept the dust out of Olki’s eyes as the stack of black velvet gloves…
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The Bog Witch of Dirk-au-fen
by Vincent Wolfram in Issue 136, May 2023 I. Rain drifted in shrouds over the valley, droplets fine as sand scouring his cheeks with the burning cold. The giant eased under the drape of the mist after cresting the hill, his boots sinking ankle-deep in the mud as he worked down the incline. His beast…
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Better with Age
by Alex Beecher in Issue 124, May 2022 The girl tending the bar offered me a shot of fermented fish liver oil before my beer, which is how I figured she was wise–it was winter, and dark, and soft bones followed the sun’s disappearance, this high and this far north–and then didn’t so much as…