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My Blue Silk Fan

By Richard Parks in Issue #463 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine “Meaning humans have souls, if not physical immortality. Snake-devils have neither. From my point of view, I am trading lead for gold in what I teach versus what I learn. If this is betrayal, may you always be traitor to me.” I wasn’t so certain about the “lead for gold” a...

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Seneschal of Shattered Tor

By Abhijeet Sathe in Issue #465 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine The foals don’t recall the age of enthrallment because we never taught them of that dark eon when the kin marched on the cities of man. I do. I was in that horde scouring the land, mindless tools of the stillborn god. We raged and reaved until one crisp winter morning whe...

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Hungry Like The

There’s a wolf where my brother used to be, a beast absolutely hellbent on ruining my life. He plunges his broad snoot into the Wednesday night spaghetti, and neither Mom nor Dad cares when half the bite slides off his nose and onto the table, to later be jostled to the floor by his grabbing, grubby paws. But if I came to the table without washi...

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The Eldest Bird of Paradise

By Denzel Xavier Scott in Issue #465 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine We have delicious cuisine. We are lovers of life. We are lovers of love. We are so many things, but above all else, we are lovers of freedom that live in a cage that no one can enter and no one can leave. Though my homeland is beautiful, peaceful, and filled with abu...

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