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MANAGARM

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

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, […]

FENRIR

FENRIR, by Adam Stemple, Artwork by Miguel Santos   Let the moon slide down your throat, nephew. Pale light and cold stone, it is the last thing you will taste before me. And I am no savory morsel, no feast for a king. Not even your subjects (scavengers, mongrels, curs) would care for this banquet. […]

ARABELLA AND THE KRAKEN KING

ARABELLA AND THE KRAKEN KING, by Gretchen Tessmer, Art by Andrea Alemanno     the captain’s widow is mad with grief her dress stained in saltwater spray her skin glowing blue-violet in moonlight and sparks from the mast St. Elmo’s fire hovers in her hair drenched, unpinned wild and everywhere, in static strands like tentacles […]

THE LAST KING OF MERCIA

THE LAST KING OF MERCIA,  by David Barber, Artwork by Miguel Santos   The old king is dying. Around the death bed his brood of sons wait their chance to seize the crown. The Witan divided. Words spoke in secret. The treasure room keys, hard glint of silver. Pouncing on weakness, Welsh raid the border. Kinfolk […]

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