The Temple of Duma Veil By Joel Tagert Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 097, January 2022 When the mages finished, Haverna was a blazing ruin. It had been the greatest city on the continent, home to a million souls. In the bazaar, merchants had hawked everything from steel spearheads to aromatic spices, women in […]
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She’s All Right By Joel Tagert Art by Jason White Published Issue 096, December 2021 “Brain worms,” Satan told her, baring his canines. “Can’t you smell it on ’em?” Talea sniffed the air as they passed an older couple walking arm in arm. “I don’t smell anything.” “Bah, you humans never do. Noses like old
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Dexter Fox By Joel Tagert By Ali Hoff Published Issue 095, November 2021 “I forgot you were dexter,” Lissa said as she watched her half-brother coiling the rope he’d been using to suspend their food in a tree. She laughed. “Isn’t that what they used to call you in school?” “I can’t remember,” Ten muttered,
JANG! JANG! JANG! RANG THE HAMMERS IN THE RAIN. JANG! JANG! JANG! CLANGED THE LINKS OF BLOODY CHAIN. JANG! BANGED THE BOOMERANG BOUNCING IN HER BRAIN. JANG! SANG THE KANGAROO – Something touched her shoulder. In a fever dream of manacles and red rock, Naoko surged upward, grabbing for the throat. The intruder gagged, falling
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Her Lonely Work By Joel Tagert Art by Jason White Published Issue 093, September 2021 The Hive is doing its work and its workers are happy. The three present hum together faintly as they turn on the paralyzer. The eyes of the human child in the bed flutter open as she wakes. This is an
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The Purp By Joel Tagert Art by Dave Danzara Published Issue 092, August 2021 The doomsayers crowded the corners but between them there was no agreement. NEW YORK WILL DROWN, read one sign. NUCLEAR WAR 10/21/35, said another. Still others mentioned plagues, droughts, assassinations, but no one took them seriously. Everyone knew the really
Grandmother Releases Her Ward By Joel Tagert Art by Graham Franciose Published Issue 090, June 2021 Yehl tried to find a time when Grandmother was alone, but this was rare, and so despite his efforts her eldest daughter was there also in the longhouse. After making a gift of a small clay pot of black
A Bonfire In the Belly of the Beast By Joel Tagert Art by Peter Kornowski Published Issue 089, May 2021 Being consumed by a dark god was just the beginning. When Th’yaleh’s great tentacles rose around my little dinghy, I looked frantically for escape, but of course there was none. Perhaps there had never been
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A Colossal Night Out By Joel Tagert Art by Arna Miller Published Issue 088, April 2021 After fighting Krung and Kusira had an appetite, so they each tore a leg off the cargo-ship-sized salamander they’d just beaten and had their fill of its flesh, sitting at their ease on the verdant slope of the volcano.
