Tag: Story
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Bounty
by Daniel J. Elliot in Issue 97, February 2020 They weren’t the best sort of people. The Drifters spent most of the year traveling by caravan from city to town, town to village, and back up again. They brought goods, gossip, mail, and the odd passenger. They also engaged in less savory work, though not…
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The Destiny Bureau
by William Broom in Issue 96, January 2020 Five men stood around the oracle, each of them covered by thick leather from head to toe. Their gloves, coats, boots and hoods were all of a single piece, to protect them from the luminescent vapours rising from the fissure in the chamber’s floor. Across their mouths…
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A Brief Pause Between Floods
by J. Tynan Burke in Issue 96, January 2020 There are monks in the far west who you may have heard of, called Harvesters. They teach that every day changes your life forever. Of course, some days change it more than others; this is about one of those days. I was sixteen, a good age for it.…
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Dirge of the Deep
by Joshua Turner in Issue 96, January 2020 Things beneath, things below; things in darkness, things unknown. Viktor heard it again. It rang out through the back of his mind like that itch he couldn’t scratch. The lilting lullaby was louder and clearer this time as if whoever was singing floated directly beneath the docks. Viktor looked over…