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Time Marches On
Welcome to the March 2026 issue of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, issue 170. Once again we have four new stories for your reading pleasure. I hope you enjoy them with the change in the weather. Work continues on The Best of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Vol. 1. Art completed by now was a bit optimistic,
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Wyvern’s Grave
by William Morris in Issue 170, March 2026 The mountain reeked of death. They had watched it for two days, and had not seen a single beast stir nor heard a single birdcall. The karst slopes were devoid of vegetation, and glinted like sharpened steel in the winter sun. Everywhere the two wanderers trod, the
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The Lesson
by David Mulry in Issue 170, March 2026 Middy felt sweat drip from his brow and before it hit the ground Felp clattered his feet out from under him with a sweep of the long stave. Felp laughed. “You’re dead now, Middy,” he sneered, “On the end of a Saracen spear, or bludgeoned by a
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What lies in the dark
by Ali Ortiz in Issue 170, March 2026 Charcoal-colored feet pattered rapidly through the bazaar streets lined with stalls. Rich aromas wafted about: roasted chestnuts, salty corn, citric and meaty köfte, sour dolmas, sweet baklavas, and kebab. The merchants harangued every passerby for a fair trade, wrapped in their own games. Until, the bartering was
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The City of Plagues
by Joshua Turner in Issue 170, March 2026 I – The Blightprince Uumm’Bolez, a tumbled gray ruin shrouded among a series of barren and dusty hills, lies to the north of the Deadlands. It is bordered to the east by the sluggish waters of the Strangula River and to the west by an unnamed forest
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