Issue #9 - Spring 2026

COMING-OF-AGE FANTASY

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FINDING FIRE

by EMMA STEAD

10-13 YEARS

Twenty minutes. It sounded reasonable. They could wait twenty minutes.

Except the sun was moving, Tom realized. The slash of light above them was already thinner than when they’d fallen, shadows creeping across the narrow space. And with the shadows came cold, and not normal autumn cold, but something deeper. Something that seemed to seep from the stone itself.

COMIC FANTASY

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LET SLEEPING TROLLS LIE

by SUSAN M. KLARICH

10-13 YEARS

With every shuffling step, an odor of rotten entrails emanated from Trolgar’s body in waves. The odor pressed its way forward, then shrank back into the dankness only to relentlessly push further into the light, as Trolgar lumbered to the edge of his lair. 

“Flee! Fly! Fow Fun! Take strut sticks offa crossing trestle mine!!!!” Trolgar roared and burst into the light.