THE WAKING GODS, by D.H. Rowe, with art by Simon Walpole   The jungle island of Iakala pierced the ocean. At its highest point a colossal structure rose above the canopy. The native people of the island called this the Tomb of the Giant Kings, as it was said to house the remains of the […]

THE PATH OF TWO ENTWINED, A TALE OF AZATLÁN, by Gregory Mele   Tehanuwak, the Land of Obsidian and Bronze, is a sweeping vista of ancient city-states in misty highlands and steaming jungles of the deep south to the vast grasslands and burning deserts of unmapped north. At this vast land’s heart lay the Three […]

THE SINGING HARP, by Colleen Anderson, with audio by the author. Once the greatest musical implement passed from gods to Taliesen strings each representing the harmony of the spheres singing a melody that drew angels near   Taliesen passed on to Avalon as mystical bards ever do the harp fell into the hands of giants […]

MANAGARM, by Jennifer Crow, Art by Caterina Gerbasi     Moon-wolf snuffles at Ygdrasil’s roots, scent of god and oracle rune-scratched in the air. How long has this beast chased its quarry across worlds and endless skies? Since the beginning of the last end, it would tell if it spoke like men, but instead it […]

DRAGONS, by Anna Remennik, Art by Karolína Wellartová   taxonomy: The smaller land-bound drakes have vestigial wings and are not true-breed dragons. And the serpents of seas and lakes are amphibious, unrelated, indeed not dragons at all. But the vast true wyrms, six-limbed and armored ventrally in scales, are classified as dragons. For these terms, see dragons, […]