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 Listen to Maguerite Croft (Podcastle) read Fantasy Magazine’s Micro-Fiction Contest Winners  

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 Photograph by Kelly Stiles

 

Night Comes Softly

by Kelly Stiles

Night comes softly, and the crickets chirp their spell-binding lullaby. In a small thicket the nymph lulls to trance-like slumber . . . 

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From the Spirit Photographs of William Hope (1863-1933)
From the collection of the National Media Museum, Creative Commons

 

The Ghost of Henry’s Past

by Caren Gussoff

My mother told me love is a fight, that’s why the heart is shaped like a fist, that’s why they say it’s beating . . .  

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 Image copyright Wade Bowen, 2006

  

A Little Part of Me Dies

by Lane Bowen

“Run,” I tell my diminutive shadow, “before the Chicken-Crow of Ammon-Tok can pierce us with his quills.”