Tag: Story
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The Apotheosis of Sophi Undying
by S. Cameron David in Issue 124, May 2022 He passed the morning in meditation, communing on the Astral Plane. There he pondered the deeper mysteries of magic and metaphysics and all manner of truth which never could I hope to grasp. And how could I? My master had drawn breath for a thousand years–Sophi…
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The Mouse that Roared
by Geoffry Hart in Issue 124, May 2022 The barbarian infant was premature, and given her small size and mottled pink and purple complexion, her mother named her Souris, the word for mouse in their tongue. Like most of the villagers, subtlety was not among the mother’s virtues. Subtlety, for them, was ringing a pommel off…
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The Wrestler’s Son
by P. J. Atwater in Issue 123, April 2022 On a night in which soft winds rambled the forested hills and bore into the vales the fresh scents of needles, buds, and lofty thaws, the riders of Mutangard caroused about their many fires. Hale and filled with courage on this fifth night away from the…
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Glamour
by Matthew Ilseman in Issue 123, April 2022 Strange things come out of the East- An Old Saying. Ceran ran through the forest. He paid no heed to any path. He ran through areas thick with growth. Leafless tree limbs reached out like skeletal hands cutting him as he ran. Ceran paid no mind;…