Tag: Story
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Ephemera
by David Bowles in Issue 57, October 2016 In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Emperor Axayacatl, his wife Asako cajoled him into reinstating Tanabata as an imperial holiday. The Star Festival was the perfect time, she suggested, for his subjects to implore the gods for the skills they needed to maintain the glory…
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Cursed and Beloved
by James Lecky in Issue 57, October 2016 “Does his heart still beat, Brother Edric?” “Aye, my lord Abbot, the pulse is weak but there is still the spark of life in him.” “More than a spark, I think,” the Abbot said. He looked down at the man upon the narrow cot, at the slim yet muscular…
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Bluffing at Farbridge
by Jason A. Holt in Issue 56, September 2016 The Shatterstone Horn had been stolen, and Higomu had orders to get it back. There are only two ways to escape from the Redwood Valley with a stolen artifact. One can either board a boat and leave by sea, or one can take the Klindrel Road and…
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The Scroll of Jadugara
by Jeffery A. Sergent in Issue 56, September 2016 The bottom level, the ninth, was nothing more than a circular floor about thirty feet in diameter. The stairs led upward and away from the deep-set chamber in an ever-widening spiral which was lost in the darkness, and at each of the eight levels above, a…