Dark waters lap a broken rhythm against creaking boards. Drooping sails hang motionless from a fore-and-aft rig. Anxious whispers slip… Read more “The Smuggler’s Broadside” by Paul R. Hardy

Plant your sword in the sand and stride towards the siren Let your lips honey her ears for all that… Read more “Directions to Tir na Nóg” by Bayveen O’Connell

What of an apple: Her lips, always red, always open; Her eyes, always closed away from the horror that has… Read more “Resignation Syndrome” by Lynne Sargent

The dragon Níðhöggr sleeps at the foot of the world-tree Ygg-drasill, which is time. You know this because you’ve seen… Read more “NÍÐHÖGGR” by Vajra Chandrasekera

Maybe tonight isn’t the time, now that there is a trickster in my belly. I gobbled him up, swallowed him… Read more “The Trickster In My Belly” by Erzebet Barthold

Morea dwelled among the leaf-dappled shade, dancing light-footed among twisted roots and beneath the low, crooked branches of her oaken… Read more “In Root and Bud” by Deborah L. Davitt

24. The venomous serpent | swiftly up To the boat did Thor, | the bold one, pull; With his hammer… Read more “Jormungandr: A Norse Tale” by Susanne Thomas

It was never good when Loki demanded Sigyn give him the keys to the coffer. “It’s better I take a… Read more “Sigyn’s Silfr” by Cathy Smith

Waves had tumbled the bottle milky. Inside she found a note: I have seen you before. The second bottle said,… Read more “Bottle” by Sarah Webb

The team at Truancy Magazine is both pleased and sad to offer you our penultimate issue. It’s an especially sad… Read more Editorial: Issue Nine of Truancy, July 2021