Tag: May
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A Woman of Means
by James Edward O’Brien in Issue 64, May 2017 “No one’s broken into the athenaeum and made it out breathing. Nobody. Besides, those days are behind me,” he explained. “Bad knees.” The woman rolled an amethyst monocle between her fingers. She plugged the incandescent lens in her eye and studied the pictograms adorning Shanley’s forearms. “You look like…
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Glass Houses
by Melanie Smith in Issue 64, May 2017 The sun’s light fell and dripped, yolk-like, onto the glass spires and faceted crystal domes of the Second City, pooling in golden puddles on the polished eaves of the great sprawl. The city stretched from the shallows of the Night Desert in the east to the Bay…
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The Skimmington
by B. C. Nance in Issue 52, May 2016 Alden huddled in his coarse woolen coat to stave off a wind that slashed from the steel-gray sky. He stood alone in the village square watching down the long path to the low fields, marking Sheply’s laborious progress as he led his aging ox pulling an…
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The Goblin’s Son
by Christopher Mowder in Issue 40, May 2015 1. The war with the humans arrived last night at Gorman’s front door, and as he surveyed the wreckage of battle, he trembled. The blood of goblins and humans stained the road and splattered the walls of his cottage. Torches blackened the lush forest floor. Retreating feet…