THE CARNIVAL JOB, by Mark Finn, artwork by Miguel Santos   The city-state of Alvara (also called Highgate) wasn’t known for its hospitality, nor its charity. For the past several hundred years, swords and soldiers were its primary export; the standing army, fifteen thousand strong, routinely strained the coffers and kept the legion of tax […]

FATHER-OF-RIVERS, A TALE OF AZATLÁN, by Gregory Mele, artwork by Justin Pfiel.   Rain fell. As it had yesterday, as it would tomorrow. “At least it’s a warm rain,” Kabil said with a wry grin, slipping his wide, straw hat from where it hung against his poncho-covered back, and settling it over his thinning hair. […]

THE ORB OF SEMERKHET, OR SATHANO THE WANDERER, by Jeremy Farkas, artwork by Gary McClusky     In the Hall of Semerkhet, darkness ruled as it had for many thousands of years. It was an inky blackness, deprived of any light, any warmth, any detail. The weight of time only served to deepen the dark, […]

A SONG OF PICTISH KINGS,  by Adrian Cole, artwork by Andrea Alemanno and Gary McClusky In Cyrena, northernmost and greatest state of the continent of Atlantis, change has come like a tidal wave in the night. The evil power of Karkora, the Pallid One, has been broken, and a new king sits the Dragon Throne […]

OLD GHOSTS, A TALE OF AZATLÁN by Gregory D. Mele, art by Justin Pfeil   It is not hard to kill a man. A thrust up, under the ribs; a hard blow to the thin bones of the temple or the base of the skull; a deep cut to the neck or the inside of […]