Tag: Story
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Gallows Dance
by Dan DeFazio in Issue 67, August 2017 Note: To avoid any associations with a certain on-line retail giant and its products, the character Alexa has been renamed. She is now known as Angelique Malvaux. The town lay at the edge of the Black Forest, its name unremembered. It was just after sunset, and the town—village,…
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Fish Out of Water
by Anna Cates in Issue 66, July 2017 “You’re the sleaziest bucket of fish guts I’ve ever seen.” “Gee, thanks.” Inchel laughed. “I didn’t realize I looked that good.” The elf boy’s ashy skin peeped through holes in fishnet stockings cladding his bony thighs beneath leather shorts. He ambled awkwardly in his chunky-heeled girly boots.…
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The High Throne
by James Van Pelt in Issue 66, July 2017 Rudd sat uneasily on the high throne. A line of supplicants with a scroll or basket or bag in hand and an earnest look about them stretched from the dais’s base to the towering oak doors. Terryn, the Lord High Steward, put his hand on Rudd’s…
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Then Will Die Your Pain
by Tom Crowley in Issue 65, June 2017 Sir Garner isn’t a proper knight, just as I’m not a proper squire. There are no knights where Garner comes from, but everyone in the company calls him Sir. And of course I’m too old to be a squire. The other mercenaries say to me, “You’re gonna…