I'm reading Storyhack #2 during sessions on the exercise bike these days and enjoying everything in it so far. This magazine is a great asset to the PulpRev movement.
Not all of it is SFF but today's story, "Crystal, Brass, and Copper", by Matthew X. Gomez, is a fantasy in a magical Caliphate setting. Bahar and her brother are sneak-thieves who imprudently decide one night to rob a powerful wizard, who turns out to be better prepared than they expected; soon she's in the hands of an alchemist like a steampunk mad scientist, and must find a way to keep herself and her brother safe from powerful enemies.
Besides being a gripping short story, CB and C would be a good chapter one in a short novel about these characters.
Science fiction and fantasy author, published for the first time in 2017. Also into recreational math, chess variants, puzzles, doggerel.
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