THE TINKER’S COME TO FIX YOUR WARES, by Galen Gower, audio by Leeman Kessler     I squatted by the roadside, footsore and wind chapped, and tossed my fortune in the dusty hardpack. I read the omens of bone, tooth, and claw and today there are ill portents for me. The footbone of the coyote […]

TO DAZE THE SEA, by Daniel P. Kelly, artwork by Karolína Wellartová, audio by The Bard       The Mountain   I could barely hear the Elder Over the spittle gale flying From the hag’s mouth of the wind. And yet that day I received A Divine Command. There, on that slurry mountain, That […]

A KING’S LAMENT, by Audrey Elmerson   I am accosted by the past, a pain I can’t erase. Each time I look into a glass and see my haggard face   the cheeks and nose remind me of my father’s cruel laugh, the menacing tones when he declared the outcome of his wrath.   And when […]

SPILLING TEA WITH A HOUSEMAID OF WYVERN HALL,  by Gretchen Tessmer, art by Simon Walpole     go ahead and ask the mighty sky kings to spill the location of their secret passageways through cumulus castles adorned with spiral thermals moon chimes and suncatcher chandeliers but I fear they’ll not tell you anything jealous, proud […]

DREAMS OF STARS, by J.D. Harlock, pending art by Gary McClusky     Lord, I can see only smog and fire when I sleep and dream of stars for this airship can soar no higher than the fumes of these cursed tars   oh, what a sorrowful sight to behold thick soot has festered in […]