by Ogiwara Saki (荻原咲) Hawthorne was dead and Thomas was dying; here indeed, he thought, was the beginning of the slow passage of magic from England. Well, it could not be helped. Hawthorne’s death was undeniably a shame as the Duke of Forget-Me-Not had been a stalwart general in the ongoing fairy civil war. […]
Category Archives: Bang*Bang no. 66
20
Jun
Scotland Shenanigans
by Yuriko Toru (百合子 亨) Alex had never bailed on a camping trip in his life. He’d been raised to be the kind to stick it out, no matter how bad things got, and he’d been fully prepared to let Finn sit in the car while he set up the tent by himself in […]
20
Jun
Risingson
by shukyou (主教) He could remember: four years old, the fruit bowl on the table, anaphylactic shock, being rushed to the doctor, a bustle of injections and barked instructions, his father’s nervous pacing, the doctor’s mechanical eyes — and then, when it was all done, a stern, clear lecture about how he was never […]
20
Jun
One May Hide Another
by Okō 織工 Nikolai Mikhailovich Kudryavtsev is drafted to the NHL in 2004 and signed to the New York Rangers. His mama cries, because New York is an enormous city, so much larger than Chelyabinsk, and it’s halfway around the world, but she looks relieved, too, because her baby will be safer there, and they […]
20
Jun
Conbadge of Honor
written and illustrated by Iron Eater “I feel too old for this,” said Ross as he watched yet another white college kid in a brightly-colored animal head pass through the registration area. There was a seemingly endless supply of them and he knew they all went to louder parties than he did. He felt Chet […]
20
Jun
The Horror From The Deep: 10th Anniversary Special Edition
by Tamari Erin (玉里えりん) The rain hammered on the roof of the car. It fell in sheets on his windshield, obscuring what little of the road his headlights had lit up. Carter tried to start the engine yet again, and swore as it sputtered and grinded noisily and died again. He slammed a hand against […]
20
Jun
Still Love After
by aohime (青姫) The soft press of lips is grounding, centering amid the scents of stale sweat and remnants of chemical cleaner. Suhayl touches rough cloth, under to smooth skin damp from the heat. Étienne gasps, arching closer, head tilted up to catch Suhayl’s lips in his own, hand pulling Suhayl down to his level. […]
20
Jun
The undersampling of success
by Hyakunichisou 13 (百日草 十三) i. Make empathy great again. Girls just wanna have fundamental rights. The number of people massed on this oval of urban grass and the roads that encircled it must have been larger than the entire population of the town Henry’d grown up in, the signs as varied and colourful as […]
