A NIGHT IN THE WITHERLANDS, by Daniel Stride, artwork by Simon Walpole   I sank my teeth into another sour marsh-apple. It’d been that, and little more, since the previous night. Donkey-cart journeys are dull affairs, and while there are worse ways to spend a fortnight – the silver clinked in my purse – I hungered […]

WIGHT, LONELY WEEP THOU, by Oliver Smith Old Grim blew in on a black winter gale, crows at his shoulder, the wolves at his heel. Beasts of the snow followed over the fields; they left trees like bones and rivers of tears, the land hidden between fog and dead years. The white wolf of winter […]

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 […]