Tag: short story
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Read more: Knight of Swords | Creepy Chimera
This is the only part of the job that I really don’t like: dealing with Chimera. It has too many moving parts. First, it breathes fire, add to that a goat’s head, lion’s body and a snake’s tail. Are they…
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Read more: II of Swords | Angel in the Cave
Orville was lost. He’d been wandering around in this cave for hours, playing I Wanna Go Home on his lyre, hoping someone would hear him. Certain parts of the cave looked familiar, but he couldn’t be sure. It was all…
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Read more: VIII Swords | Stupid Sandals
Crispin had always been accident prone. Among other mishaps, his childhood had been filled with scraped knees and elbows, bruises. a broken arm, and two broken noses. It seemed the harder he tried to be mindful of the world and…
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Read more: XIX The Sun | The Results
Mark and Julie had been anxiously awaiting word regarding the sex of their unborn baby. The news would come by courier since there were no mail carriers yet. Unlike modern pregnancy tests in which the woman provides the urine, in…
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Read more: Queen of Pentacles | The New Gig
It might not look like much, but I am damn lucky to have this gig. I beat out 86 other woodies to become this ship’s bow ornament. Technically, I’m called a prosthema, or figurehead. Anyway, you talk about some stiff…
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Read more: VIII Justice | Common Sense
It was a Thursday morning when Gus-Bob and Jimmy-Ed stood outside the courthouse and waited for it to open. They’d grown up together and been friends for years, but now there was a disagreement that only a third-party could mediate.…
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Read more: XVIII The Moon | Hannah from Hades
Hannah’s family and friends thought she worked nights as a bartender at a private club in Heraklion. They also thought that archery was just a hobby. Not one of them would ever have guessed that she was actually a gun…
