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Fantasy

Blade

August 15, 2010
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by Anne Petty The mage crossed the darkened study, his scholar’s robe eddying around his ankles. On the corner of a massive writing desk, a foot-high candle wrapped in ripples of wax cast a yellow sheen over tumbled books and papers. He ran harried fingers through his hair and turned to face the silent figure [...]

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The Oracle

July 15, 2010
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by Ann Gimpel “Cassandra!  Time to git up, ya lazy slut.” She waited, cringing away from the rough male voice, but the nudge from his hob-nailed boot in her already-bruised ribs didn’t come.  Ugh!  He was bending down closer to her.  The cloyingly rancid odor from his unwashed body and rotting teeth was almost unbearable.  [...]

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For the Love of Evil

July 15, 2010
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by Lorena Dorantes What do you do when you fall in love with evil and it falls in love with you?  My answer…?  I have none.  The only thing I could answer was that I loved him, the creature, the man, whatever you would want to call him… my feelings remained the same.  Love. Days [...]

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Medusa Blooms

June 15, 2010
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by David Moore 1899 – Savannah, Georgia Electricity fills the night air, crackling, cracking, the street bursting in a blinding flash of light, illuminating every shadow, making night day for the briefest instant, and then it is gone. Silence. A deeper darkness because of the sudden loss of light. All is blind and mute, a [...]

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