Pauline Alama

From Pauline J. Alama comes a stirring fantasy tale of three vagabonds in a dying world and their terrifying quest into the heart of darkness... The Eye Of Night It is a magical world on the verge of collapse. In the North the Troubles rage. Cities and kings are being annihilated; the very earth is in upheaval, waking even the dead from their graves. All notions of time and space, of day and night, of seasonal change seem fractured beyond repair. But as the chaos moves slowly south, engulfing land after land, three unlikely heroes--an ex-priest, a battered serving girl, and an exquisitely beautiful, refined lady--journey bravely to the dying regions, their only weapon an enchanted stone of enigmatic power and ancient origin. Jereth, disillusioned with his faith in the Rising God and robbed of his family after a deadly shipwreck, struggles to find meaning in his blighted life, searching the devastated land without direction--until he meets two extraordinary women. Each has her own secrets to keep; both are on a quest to save the world. But they must first save themselves, conquering their demons and rousing their well-disguised strengths. Only then will it be revealed how three penniless, unarmed wanderers can light a darkening world. For one is a prophet, one is a fool, and one’s life is now in their hands.

A Novel

The Eye of Night

Hunter Liguore

Wendy Nikel

James Dorr

Nyki Blatchley

Juliana Rew

Terri Bruce

James Zorn

Philip Hall

Greg Beatty

Joel Richards

Marie DesJardin

Arthur Doweyko

E. Eastick

Lisa Timpf

Fourteen international authors come together in "It's Come to Our Attention" from Third Flatiron Anthologies. Their stories scratch below the surface to unearth a world of hidden gems: Visit a landfill to hear some real trash talk. Bust a conspiracy to change the climate via mind control. Form an unhealthy attachment to your radio. Go down to the basement even though we told you not to. Decide on the pros and cons of immortality. Tell a librarian she would look great without her glasses. Find out what's at the bottom of the wishing well (besides coins). Indulge in a little illegal but highly satisfying genetic tinkering. Acknowledge the debt we all owe to French culture.

It's Come to Our Attention

Patricia S. Bowne

Kate Sheeran Swed

Josh Vogt

Hank Quense

Anna Yeatts

Axel Taiari

Rebecca Roland

Gary Emmette Chandler

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #7 includes 9 short stories and one graphic story: "No Tale for Troubadours" - Pauline J. Alama "Hell of a Salesman" - Hank Quense "Beyond the Visible Spectrum" - Axel Taiari "Little Sprout" - Rebecca Roland "When the Dead Are Indexed" - Gary Emmette Chandler "Dragon Rodeo Queen" - Kate Sheeran Swed "The Adjunct" - Patricia S. Bowne "Outside In" - Anna Yeatts "Conversations with a Ghost" - Josh Vogt "Shamrock" - Josh Brown & Alberto Hernandez In the non-fiction section, this issue features: Interview with Author Tina Connolly Interview with Author Rachel Pollack Interview with Author Hank Quense Science Corner: 7 Things to Know About Mutations Book Review: A Princess of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs) Movie Review: EX_MACHINA (Alex Garland) The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.

Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #7

Pauline Alama

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