ELEGY FOR ISKIA, CITY OF GARDENS’ SHADE, by Mendax of Iskai, translated by Cullen Groves, artwork by Miguel Santos   Fair were the gardens of Iskia: sweet with the asphodel’s fragrance, Filled with the hymns of the bees happily working the flowers, Shadow of myrtle and coolth of the clear flowing spring at its roots, […]

THE HALF-ORC’S TRUE IDENTITY, by Christian Emecheta   he pompously wears his injuries like blood on a battlefield, each scar extending like a city founded on agony and endurance. the sword remembers the violence his mind is fighting to forget, he acts like an angry viper, but his heart knows his true intention, his blade […]

AN OCEAN AND A TIDE, INTERTWINED, by Joel Glover   The Fifth Realm is a beach which stretches From a horizon which cannot be touched to one which cannot be seen There is an ocean somewhere, An ocean and a tide. There is an ocean somewhere, An ocean and a tide. Grains slip between Ásgeirr’s […]

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, […]