THIRTY-NINTH WAR BETWEEN INNIS AND MEQING: COMMENCEMENT, by Mary Soon Lee, artwork by Simon Walpole   Not a battle, but a raid, not on impulse, but under orders– Prince Connol would have risked his brother’s anger and questioned those orders had he judged it would do any good, but King Donal was set on war, […]

2021. Finally. Oh, do not rest easy my friends; we may have gotten out of 2020, but like the Battle of Pelanor Fields, it is just a prelude for marching upon Mordor, such is the situation we find ourselves in now.  The many, many, fires started in 2020 may have been put out, but there […]

THE MEDALLION’S SONG, by Ginny Patrick, artwork by Karolína Wellartová   Twilight darkened the narrow alley in the marketplace. Serena hurried down an unfamiliar path, pulling her hood close beneath her chin as she peered through a deepening gray mist at the merchants’ tented stalls. Under the cover of her cape she clutched the hilt of […]

THE SILVER LIGHT OF FOREVER, by Mike Adamson   Gareth waited with the same nervous impatience he had experienced before the Harvest every year. The green vestments of the duke fluttered softly about his chain mail and leather, and the worn grip of his sword was a comfort at his side, but the dread import […]

WINTER LUCK, by Evan Dicken, with audio by Karen Bovenmyer, music by Kevin MacLeod, and art by Miguel Santos   “Fall back!” Icy wind snatched the words from Ochiai Haruyoshi’s lips, the driving snow like a funeral shroud draped across his eyes. A flash of red armor was his only warning as the Takeda samurai […]