SWORDS, by Colleen Anderson     Torn from the earth with hard edged tools biting into its mother’s belly hammered, chiseled, pulverized until it no longer recalls its long slumber A sword begins the chaotic journey of which it is forged Without love nor comfort nor the still acceptance of nature it enters a fiery […]

The Last Tale, by Jennifer Crow   The last tale you told ended in a forest: dark, foreboding, full of shadows and hungry beasts. The scent of pine, the crunch

THE SONG OF BLACK MOUNTAIN, by Darrell Schweitzer, artwork by Gary McCluskey   I will make the song of the Black Mountain. Hear how it begins: It was because dragons still lingered above the peak of the Black Mountain that the King of Kings, Emperor of All the World Worth Ruling called together into his […]

June 2, 2019 update!  We are happy to bring you a mid-issue update from the always-awesome Darrell Scwheitzer, “The Song of Blue Mountain“!  There is trouble at Black Mountain, dragon trouble, and a hero is called for, but Altheric is no ordinary hero, nor is Valas an ordinary minstrel, and what is going on at […]

A STONE’S THROW, by Howard Andrew Jones, with artwork by Karolína Wellartová, and audio by Karen Bovenmyer     Hanuvar pointed the sword at the assassin’s throat. “Lie down.” Light from the swollen golden moon reached fitfully into the twisting alley, but there was no missing the curl of revulsion on the assassin’s lips as […]