Tag: Story
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Getting Better
by Rob Francis in Issue 59, December 2016 “They dead?” Agris squinted at the sun, the rictus that passed for a smile on his battered face making him seem almost a corpse himself. Leos looked down on the two withered bodies by the side of the dirt track, flaking skin stretched and taut enough to see the…
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Smoke Out
by Melanie Smith in Issue 59, December 2016 It wasn’t the dragons that were the problem, it was the unicorns. Sure enough, the dragons weren’t easy: they leaked out hot streams of copper alloy piss as they undulated in the air above the town, which spattered down on the houses below to start the odd…
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Grey Wings and Promises
by Louis Palmerino in Issue 59, November 2016 First, I had to save your life before it began. It wasn’t easy, and cost me more time and coppers than I had to lose, but you were worth that to me. I remember the day as clear as the dockside bells. They were clanging and clonging all…
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The Blade that Seeks
by Edward H. Parks in Issue 58, November 2016 The ship pitched and swayed again, as it had all morning. Uncle Gelearde lurched over to the gunwale and retched. His belly was empty after a long night on this gusty sea, and he suffered through another lengthy round of dry heaves. “Could help you with that,…