Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense: Issue #2 / Fall 2019

A Little Human IngenuityBy WILLIAM HUGGINSThe Rake, the last great champion of the Game—a bloodsport recreating mankind’s battles against alien foes—is given an opportunity to face those old foes once again!The Burning FishBy JIM BREYFOGLESeeking out the Burning Fish for a client, Mangos and Kat instead find a strange cult of folk devoted to a simple life—who would kill before giving up their secrets!For I Have Felt a Fire in the HeadBy ADRIAN SIMMONSIrish prince Maenach MacScannal faces the hordes of the Danes on the bloody fields of mag sé liathdaimh, armed with his faith and his blade, Takes-The-Hand!La MolejeraBy MARIE BRENNANAn anthropologist seeks to solve the mystery of Chalchihuitlan’s “grinding woman.” What’s her significance? What is it that she grinds? For what does she wait?!Pale Moon’s BrideBy VILLE MERILÄINENHer parents have been driven to madness, and her siblings are dead by their own hand—what unearthly curse has afflicted Amanda Corrine Dubois’ family?!Pawn to the QueenBy CHRISTINE LUCASAt his mentor’s dying request, the High Priest of Anubis must right a dreadful wrong—recover and return the canopic jars of Queen Tetisheri to end a curse!People of FireBy JENNIFER R. POVEYA sinkhole swallows a research expedition in Siberia, and only one woman survives! Beneath the earth’s crust, in halls of fire, Peri finds a lost civilization!Blue-Like-The-SkyBy SPENCER E. HARTSlayer-Of-Wolf’s hunting party is alarmed when a mysterious fire falls from the sky—stranger still is the mysterious blue woman he finds where the fire has landed!Doomsday ShardBy KEN MCGRATHSerenity Deadline has been hired to jack the Doomsday Shard, a deadly piece of hardware that could end the world—but she’s not the only woman after it!TitanBy REBECCA DEVENDRAThe colonists of Titan have been a fierce and independent lot since breaking away from Earth—some with a grudge might even resort to murder to stay independent!The Handover of the Scepter of Greatest RegretBy HAL Y. ZHANGThe war and killing is finally over, and all that’s left is the ceremony to commemorate the peace—except the alien ambassador has died just before showtime!