TRAIL OF ASHES, by Caleb Williams   ‘Fire… fire!’ The carriage rattling over the earthen bridge and the scalding image of fire jarred Keedran from a troubled sleep. He hardly slept at all anymore. The voices of all of the souls he had conjured wouldn’t let him. He sat up, groaned, and beheld the splendor […]

CHILDREN OF THE STONE, by Ann K. Schwader, with artwork by Miguel Santos     We have not always been this planet’s masters, though humankind denies it. Other blood than ours heaped earthen barrows, raised up stones in veneration of some dark & nameless power, avatar of elder shadow slithered through the star-rifts. What survives […]