FarFetchedFables No 172 Hal Duncan
Main Story: “The Tower of Morning's Bones” by Hal Duncan(Originally published in Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy.)“Once upon a time, the land of Shuber and Hamazi,Many tongued Sumer, the g...
22 Aug 201755min
FarFetchedFables No 171 Tracy Canfield
“The Seal of Sulaymaan” by Tracy Canfield(Originally published in Fantasy Magazine, July 2010.)Back when there were other ifriit to talk to, I’d tell them Morocco was as far as you can get from Mecca ...
15 Aug 201742min
FarFetchedFables No 170 Dennis Mombauer
“The Breeding Dust” by Dennis Mombauer(Originally published in Outliers of Speculative Fiction.)Silent, angular houses with white plaster, a sand-suffocated well and a couple of stunted palms huddled ...
8 Aug 201736min
FarFetchedFables No 169 Michelle Ann King
“Where There's Magic” by Michelle Ann King(Originally published in Kaleidotrope, April 2016.)The witch had a favourite saying: where there's life, there's magic. There was a second part -- where there...
1 Aug 201752min
FarFetchedFables No 168 Robert J Santa and Tonya Liburd
"“Princess Lily's Wedding” by Robert J. Santa(Originally published in Blood, Blade & Thruster.)"I love him, Daddy!"King Frederick breathed deeply. It had been a very long conversation with his younges...
25 Juli 201730min
FarFetchedFables No 167 Alter S Reiss
"“By Appointment to the Throne” by Alter S. Reiss(Originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies #155.)Getting up early enough to open a kitchen hurts. Leaving a warm bed before second watch makes yo...
18 Juli 201745min
FarFetchedFables No 166 Scott Huggins
"“Phoenix for the Amateur Chef” by Scott Huggins(Originally published in Sword and Sorceress 30.)The phoenix fell.Its sobbing death cry silenced by a coat of ravening flame, it corkscrewed to earth, b...
11 Juli 201754min
FarFetchedFables No 165 Valjeanne Jeffers and Ed Ahern
"“The Sickness” by Valjeanne Jeffers(Originally published in Griots: Sisters of the Spear.)The Bini warriors crouched in the high grass of the savanna. They'd passed the Fula borders a mile back, and ...
4 Juli 201748min
