RED-AUTMN SEEKS HIS FATHER’S BONES, By Jonathan Olfert, art by Miguel Santos   At forty winters, Red-Autumn climbed into the forbidden tomb with an old man’s carefulness, clumsy in the dark. Engraved stone chewed his fingertips raw. There’d be worse pain tonight, succeed or fail. He caught his breath at the top of the carved […]

THE BLADE’S BARGAIN, by Robert Luke Wilkins, with audio by The Bard     Savander and the First Blades screamed out from the line of date-palms and swept into the oasis on camel-back, past the wooden placards painted with the green eye of Inari the Trickster. The cultists panicked, three dozen peasant men and women […]

PAGAN FIRES, by Rev. Joe Kelly, artwork by Karolína Wellartová   1   The peaceful still of the mire burst apart with the pounding splashes of panic-winged feet. Small furry animals scrambled for cover, little wading birds tittered and took flight, as the lad tore through the rushes, his streaming sweat half-frozen, his lungs aching from […]

THE UNBITTEN FRUIT, written and read by Oliver Smith   In the desert’s empty heart, it whispered, “I am the wind who wore smooth the tomb. Yet, still fair Aždaja, whom you loved and who loved thee, came to search the musty, statued halls; among the mould of skulls, forsaking her golden crown, for pages […]

THE GOBBLER RAID, by Aidan Redwing, pending artwork by Simon Walpole   Pit-pat, pit-pat fall the raindrops from a grey moonless sky. Clink-clank, clink-clank from the mine shaft, the Gobblers creep below. And the villagers lay sleeping, all a bed a-sleeping, on this wretched and dreary night.   Skit-scat, skit-scat, scratch their long claws, creeping […]