THE FOREST OF BONES, by Christopher Chupik   The day was already waning when Lucan rode through the Forest of Bones. Trees loomed all around him, oak and ash, moss draped over their branches like beards. He saw no animals amidst the green shadows and the only birdsong Lucan heard was the cawing of crows. […]

THE BLITZ OF DIN BARHAM, by Cameron Johnston   When the dragon came, the love songs of nightingales ceased and the moon hid her face from the slumbering spires of Din Barham. From within black clouds an ominous whoomph whoomph whoomph of immense wings, then a heartbeat of dreadful silence, followed by the whistle of […]

WHAT CLEV YUN WOULD WANT TO TELL, by Adrian Simmons   In the hostage house of Soviran– the man who called himself king of the Tamoncol tribe– lived a foreigner. A one-time ally from a land so far away that most of the Tamoncol believe it to be merely legend.   The one-time ally is now […]

MORE BLOOD THAN BONE, by E.K. Wagner   Haukfin, classification unknown:   This sea-faring creature is of gigantic proportions, easily matching the length and girth of the Ngimbian ships which stalk the haukfin in its lair. Found to live hundreds of miles off-shore any civilized isle, the haukfin inhabits the coldest depths of the water. […]

THE LADY AND THE DWARF, by  Rebecca Brinker Once, in a forest, there lived not seven but one dwarf. He was a hard industrious man who had an affinity for the earth and a talent for finding ore. It did not matter what kind of ore: copper, silver, gold, the Dwarf could find it all, […]