Tag: Story
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In the Shadow of the Gibbet
by Robert Mammone in Issue 16, May 2013 Humid air drifted through the window’s great arch, disturbing the diaphanous curtains which obscured the full moon. Lod watched it through slitted eyes, grunting as the woman riding him arched her back then drove her hips into his, harder and harder. Haloed in the moonlight, her hair…
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You Don’t Want That
by Ray Krebs in Issue 15, April 2013 The bell on the shop door rang as it opened. Vritin blast them, another one, and she was two days behind making charms she had already sold. Brenna kept her head down, no eye contact. Don’t they have important things to shop for? Like food and clothing…
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The Snow Mage
by M. R. Timson in Issue 15, April 2013 The snow clotted on the ground like blood in a wound. From his vantage point halfway up Mount Atinos, Roland could see the smoke curling up from the chimneys of Wintersholm, crowded by a penumbra of evergreens on the southern edge of the valley. He picked…
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Calling Fire
by Jarod K. Anderson in Issue 14, March 2013 Nothing burned like the grasslands. I should know. The place was hungry for fire. It begged for it in a dry, rustling language that called me from the green hills. It always seemed to know me –to know that I was the one who heard its…