BARNABY’S DECEIT, by Al Onia, Audio by The Bard     “I’ll be back before dawn,” Barnaby whispered. A lie, if the night’s task succeeded or went awry. The small man slid from Aida’s cot in the troupe’s lead wagon and donned his tunic, belted his short sword and mouthed a silent prayer to Beltrum, […]

SANDS & FOREST, by Jason M. Waltz, Artwork by Andrea Alemanno The far edge of the empty grasslands came quickly. Too quickly, in Sands’ estimation. Then he realized his horse had fled along a path new to him, though obviously not to it. Perhaps leaping atop the bare back of the shaman’s blue roan had […]

GREAT FIRE, by MR Timson, Artwork by Miguel Santos   They say all stories start with a spark, a fragment of a flame that drifts through the air, landing unnoticed on something ready to burn. The alchemists write that we all have fire in us, just waiting to be released. But to this day, I […]

A LEGION OF LECANOMANCERS, by Devan Barlow     There is no bottom to this river only floating shreds of fabric garments of lecanomancers before us warped with age with prophetical witnessing   From the realm’s corners and crevices we came each dragging our distinctive dust worries baggage   At this river rumored to hold […]

TRUTH, by by Aidan Redwing I taste the words like blood in my mouth because no one I love is safe and you don’t deserve peace. I feel the anger in my veins as a I stare at my hands, trembling at the thought that the hands of a bard should carry a blade. But, […]