Yaroslav Barsukov’s story “Tower of Mud and Straw I: The Duchy” was published in Metaphorosis on Friday, 25 September 2020. I saw the novella in a dream. I was my own hero, banished from the capital to a province which sheltered a magical race. An exile that turned out to be something more. Another thing was, I wanted to write a story about architects and artisans. I briefly toyed with the idea of an architect …
How many steps can a person take until the course of events becomes irreversible—fifty?
In silence, as though overcome with modesty, the doctor hid his instruments and rolled them into a piece of black velvet.
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Cover art by Chris Panatier.
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The hammer fell in an arrhythmic pulse, like an old man’s heart, skipping a punch each time the chisel it hit dropped another inch into the device.
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