ISLE OF THE THOUSAND-EYED STRANGLER, by Dariel R. A. Quiogue   Set in a fantastical version of the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, the Perfumed Isles are home to prince-turned-reiver, Pandara, who has set himself the task of vengeance against the might of the Wulongan Empire for ravaging his homeland of Zambail. But […]

THE THRID WAY, by Darrell Schweitzer   So we rode, by magic, across the wide ocean as if over a dusty plain, into the burning lands, into the country of sunset near the world’s edge; we rode, the two of us, Mazantes, greatest of all heroes, and I, his follower, as close behind him as […]

DUEL, by R. M. Gulaya, artwork by Lilith Graves       This was a magnificent place to spill blood. The clearing here was not a natural thing, but rather a scar, blasted out of the thick pine forest by magical fires of war some fifty years ago. Kael marveled at the scene, so familiar […]

DRAGON TEARS, by Caleb Williams, pending artwork by Simon Walpole   An elbow struck my side and woke me from an alchemical slumber. My limbs were bound to the mast of some ragged naval vessel. A boy held tight to the rigging. “Sorry. Captain orders.” Across the sea, royal ships from Alma’Riha shot fireworks across […]

THE CURSE OF BLOODBONE ISLAND, by Adrian Cole, artwork by Miguel Santos A tale of Elak’s Atlantis Prologue   Under the watchful eye of the Atlantean moon, the Arrow, a sleek privateer craft, was at rest at the quayside of the small port of Ulumar, far from the main sea lanes of the young Empire. […]