LESSONS IN SPELLCASTING, by Colleen Anderson   Vortex formed, sucked into the Abyss Exited into a blizzard, ice biting like millions of insects Created orb of all-seeing light Reached a new understanding of Spellcasting Tripped on stone before the Temple Hand landed on hidden release Door ground open, decay’s breath touched me Stumbled down stairs into […]

THIRTY-NINTH WAR BETWEEN INNIS AND MEQING: COMMENCEMENT, by Mary Soon Lee, artwork by Simon Walpole   Not a battle, but a raid, not on impulse, but under orders– Prince Connol would have risked his brother’s anger and questioned those orders had he judged it would do any good, but King Donal was set on war, […]

2021. Finally. Oh, do not rest easy my friends; we may have gotten out of 2020, but like the Battle of Pelanor Fields, it is just a prelude for marching upon Mordor, such is the situation we find ourselves in now.  The many, many, fires started in 2020 may have been put out, but there […]

DRAGON’S HOARD, by Dawn Vogel   I come from a lineage of hoarders, hoarders of things both immense and dainty, gold, gems, other riches, treasures, and more, heaped into piles upon which they roost.   As for me, I hoard an esoteric love of knowledge, my wealth in tomes and scrolls, books and papers, and […]

RABBIT FOOT, by Colleen Anderson, read by the author the clumsy man a stumbling woman saw the fleetfooted hare   thought to harness the zephyrs of air the breath of change the lagomorph run   to escape the pains the world bestows they used sympathetic magic imparting pain to be freed   each person leaps […]