TYMASS BY RING-LIGHT, by Mike Adamson Verily it be that, unknownst to the prevailing wisdom, the Gods and Fates shall move in concert and all that is undone shall be remade. From black despair shall come the joy of day, and the bearer of this revolution shall in service be redeemed. ―The Testament of Farnor.   […]

THE MERIT ONE GOLD PIECE, by Dave D’Alessio   He was an old man of perhaps fifty years, and his four teeth stank of cardamom. “Beatricsh iss me daughter,” he said. “She’ss not a witch.” “She failed the test, old man.” The sheriff pushed her in the millpond and she rose to the top, all […]

THE GATEKEEPER, by Marlane Quade Cook Beat by beat, footsteps echoed on the stones that carved a path through the meandering hills of the wasteland. Swirls of mist dispersed at the traveller’s approach. The hazy vapour was heavy enough to dampen the clouds of dust that rose faintly from the path: disrupted by human footsteps […]

PREROGATIVE OF GODS, by Nathanael Green     The gods are all of them gone to ashes. Some sent there by my own hand. Once, though, they were Twelve, often among us. That morning, the first time I met the god I would serve, was sharp with the frost of autumn when I went to […]

RAFT OF CONQUISTADORS, by Raphael Ordonez   Zisz the god-diatom skimmed the pelagic zone of space. The crystal vessel, both shell and ship, that housed Zisz’s tender self described a zigzag path across the abyss until it fell at last by chance into a spinning star-whorl. Planet-fields flung from white-hot sparks as from potters’ wheels […]