FOUND ON THE WATER, by Martha Wells (originally published at her Patreon), with artwork by Simon Walpole   The last thing Jai wanted to wake up to was Kiev leaning over her, saying, “We found something.” She batted him away, squinting at the dawn light falling through the window slats. “What?” “You need to come […]

TRAIL OF ASHES, by Caleb Williams   ‘Fire… fire!’ The carriage rattling over the earthen bridge and the scalding image of fire jarred Keedran from a troubled sleep. He hardly slept at all anymore. The voices of all of the souls he had conjured wouldn’t let him. He sat up, groaned, and beheld the splendor […]

CHILDREN OF THE STONE, by Ann K. Schwader, with artwork by Miguel Santos     We have not always been this planet’s masters, though humankind denies it. Other blood than ours heaped earthen barrows, raised up stones in veneration of some dark & nameless power, avatar of elder shadow slithered through the star-rifts. What survives […]

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SERVANT OF THE BLACK WIND, by Gregory Mele   I. The attack came at dawn. It was not the time of day that caught the defenders unprepared, it was that it had come at all. The necropolis of Koltopec was certainly an isolated, lonely place, and there were riches aplenty buried in its many tombs […]