THE UNBITTEN FRUIT, written and read by Oliver Smith   In the desert’s empty heart, it whispered, “I am the wind who wore smooth the tomb. Yet, still fair Aždaja, whom you loved and who loved thee, came to search the musty, statued halls; among the mould of skulls, forsaking her golden crown, for pages […]

THE GOBBLER RAID, by Aidan Redwing, pending artwork by Simon Walpole   Pit-pat, pit-pat fall the raindrops from a grey moonless sky. Clink-clank, clink-clank from the mine shaft, the Gobblers creep below. And the villagers lay sleeping, all a bed a-sleeping, on this wretched and dreary night.   Skit-scat, skit-scat, scratch their long claws, creeping […]

FOUND IN A HIDDEN CAVERN, written and read by Colleen Anderson   Found in a Hidden Cavern Notations on Artifacts & Manuscript I in icy seas black as a villain’s heart in depths the sun fears to touch lies the last of a knowing race encased in a shell, waiting for that moment between breath […]

FIFTEEN THINGS TO MAKE A SOLDIER MISERABLE, by Aidan Redwing, artwork by Miguel Santos     A shortage of pipe weed.   Rotating to the frontline.   Being informed by your commanding officer that you will not receive relief.   A long march over rugged terrain to a secure position.   Arriving only to find […]

The Flame and the Bottle, by Howard Andrew Jones, audio by Leeman Kessler   I The woman was disconsolate with weeping. Surely the whole of the neighborhood heard her wailing from within the walls of her tiny house; the four of us grew conscious of it in the moments before we turned the corner onto […]