FIVE DAYS TO DRAGONHAUL, by Evan Marcroft, art by Miguel Santos, Audio by Karen Bovenmyer   The day before I was to begin my journey north, I rode the train down to the Needles Quarter to purchase new winter boots. I quickly found two ideal pairs at a canopied stall operated by a harried widow. […]

THE BEAST IN THE WOODS, by Peter Fugazzotto Hwaeth, half-orc, crouched in the sodden gray grasses, and squinted down the hillside trying to see the enemy. But the fog was impenetrable. The line of trees blurred into a fuzzy black swath. As much as he tried, he could not discern the enemy from the trees. […]

A NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY, by Robert Zoltan 1  In the city of Merth, in a dimly lit bedchamber of a mansion on Silverhand Lane, Kora Dervan stared at her reflection that stared at her reflection that stared at her reflection… She sat in a corner between two mirrors that created an infinite number of […]

ECHO OF THE SIREN   “Have you a death wish?” my son Telemachus asked, exasperated. “You are the only mortal to hear the song of the Sirens and live. Why in the gods’ names would you go back there?” Next to him, Penelope stood silently, her smoldering eyes and clenched mouth showing pain and disappointment. […]

FELLSCORPE AND THE WISHING WELL, by Katherine Quevedo, art by Simon Walpole They’d make fun of me, they would.  For this stupid shiny coin I roll between my fingers, glinting against my dark leather gloves as it flips across my knuckles.  And for the bright, polished stones arranged in a neat circle in front of […]