THE MEDALLION’S SONG, by Ginny Patrick, artwork by Karolína Wellartová   Twilight darkened the narrow alley in the marketplace. Serena hurried down an unfamiliar path, pulling her hood close beneath her chin as she peered through a deepening gray mist at the merchants’ tented stalls. Under the cover of her cape she clutched the hilt of […]

THE SILVER LIGHT OF FOREVER, by Mike Adamson   Gareth waited with the same nervous impatience he had experienced before the Harvest every year. The green vestments of the duke fluttered softly about his chain mail and leather, and the worn grip of his sword was a comfort at his side, but the dread import […]

WINTER LUCK, by Evan Dicken, with audio by Karen Bovenmyer, music by Kevin MacLeod, and art by Miguel Santos   “Fall back!” Icy wind snatched the words from Ochiai Haruyoshi’s lips, the driving snow like a funeral shroud draped across his eyes. A flash of red armor was his only warning as the Takeda samurai […]

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 […]