Free Fantasy Poetry

For Immediate Release, Delphi

More of William R. Ramsey’s poetry can be found in The Literary Fantasy Magazine: Winter 2025 Stiffened by the sumptuary blending of hereditary sorrow and the sum perfection of tomorrow’s unforeseen frustration, a perturbation of the field persuades us that tonight will be unlike today. Apologies to perturbations past, whose bloody entrails yesterday forebode the bulk of this: the small red berries grown recalcitrant and sullen, exogamous legumes withdrawing from our touch in such a way as to suggest a recurring trauma. All oracles agree, there will be more trauma. Current trends toward increasing workplace automation will continue. What we…

Flash Fiction Free Fantasy

Shepherd

Art by Kim Holm. More of Lee Patton’s work can be found in The Literary Fantasy Magazine: Winter 2025. Do you understand what I am asking of you, Mical?” Azra said, his amber eyes glowing in the pale moonlight spilling through the window of an otherwise dark room. The fire had long since succumbed to the ravages of time, ousted by the passage of long hours. Mical sat in silence, pondering the question. His gray eyes fixed on the smoldering ashes in the fireplace. The dull red light of the embers brightened, dimmed, then faded away. Mical could not help…