DO NOT FEAR, FOR THE WORK WILL BE PURE, by Michael Johnstone, artwork by Karolína Wellartová, audio by Karen Bovenmyer. For all that his Rat Quarter Cycle conferred upon him deserved esteem in Elsidor, leading to a flourishing period of commissions from the highborn, Zayal’s now justifiably celebrated statue of King Rolan I, shaped from […]

LOW TIDE, by Conor DiViesti, Artwork by Carol Wellart It was the last week of the low tide and the foreman was waiting for him. Horace limped back to camp alone, dragging the empty crab net behind him as first light crept over the horizon. Pools of quivering, tepid saltwater splashed beneath his feet and […]

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 […]