The Widow’s Pilgrimage By Joel Tagert Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 105, September 2022 Bears of Umbre! Soon you’ll step foot on the Red Shore. Why “red”? Blood and gold, that’s why! Look at those Widows. Eight of ’em, each dripping with treasure, ripe for the taking. The fortune of a lifetime, and all […]
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Published Issue 104, August 2022 It’s the hottest day ever in LA, which is whack because it’s not even sunny out. Sky’s gray as a suit and the air smells like a trash fire. I take one look and say, “Foo, you got to get to the ocean,” and Jay Bee agrees. So it’s wetsuits
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By Gray Winsler Art by Moon_Patrol Published Issue 104, August 2022 You wake up on a jungle floor, swallowed by a canopy of leaves. Vines constrict like a boa around you as you push yourself to your feet. Your heart thuds as you tear the vines from your skin, hands slick with sweat. You look
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Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 104, August 2022 Ali Hoff is UK-based freelance concept artist and 3D Modeller who creates strange otherly worlds, scapes, characters and more and the creator of Totem Earth. See more of his work on Instagram. Check out Ali’s last Birdy published piece, Lend Me Your Eyes and Let The Hunt
By Gray Winsler Art by DS Thornburg Published Issue 103, July 2022 “Can we go home now?” Penelope asked her father. Georg shook his head. “Not ‘till we catch something for your mother.” “But it’s been hours …” she moaned, plopping her head down to rest between her hands, fingers fiddling with the pink ribbons
The Eagle Hunter By Joel Tagert Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 103, July 2022 When Aldiyar finally turned the corner down the high path, his golden triumph turned to lead and sunk a fist in his belly. Forgotten was the fox tied to his saddle, forgotten the story of his eagle’s prowess; for just
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Ocean Moon By Curtis Bergesen aka Collage The World Published Issue 102, June 2022 Curtis Bergesen — aka Collage The World — was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Bethesda, MD. He is a vegetarian, only child, Eagle Scout and nature lover. Curtis has spent much of his adult life working in the
No Escape From the Storm By Joel Tagert Art by Caitlyn Grabenstein Published Issue 102, June 2022 The storm kept coming. The first time Kadi and Aliya were in the drive-thru of a Burger King in Fruita, Colorado. Kadi was behind the wheel of her car, a 2003 Ford Taurus she’d bought for eleven hundred
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By Gray Winsler Art by Eric Joyner Published Issue 102, June 2022 George’s mower hummed across the Sky Line — an elevated park once known as the High Line, but rebranded in the 2040s when it was expanded over all four boroughs (Staten Island having been sold off to New Jersey, a change few New
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The Shadow Walker By Gray Winsler Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 101, May 2022 The Shadow Walker By Gray Winsler KIR12’s limbs itched with rust, the last droplets of rain pattering off its metal plating. It cursed the wetness of this planet, its limbs needing to be interchanged weekly, always keeping the Red Death
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