KN Magazine: Short Stories
The Final Portrait
As a military junta closes in, a young painter races to finish a portrait that may do more than capture a face—it may capture a soul. The Final Portrait is a tense, magical-realist political thriller about art as resistance, the legacy of grief, and the deadly power hidden in a pair of painted eyes.
Cerulean
When Deacon learns that a Category 5 hurricane is headed straight for his father’s home on Maynard Key, he races into the storm to save him. But what he finds in the old house is far more haunting than the weather outside—a mysterious blue spark, a father’s grief, and the ghostly presence of a mother long gone. Cerulean is a story about loss, love, and the fragile space between the living and the dead.
Practical Arcanology
When arcanologist Oro is sent to excavate an ancient temple buried beneath a city’s future housing development, he expects bureaucracy and boredom—not an artifact that could wipe out everyone in Brimgarth. With only a sarcastic mercenary, a nimble lockpicker, and his own humble earth-magic, Oro must outwit a rising tide of eldritch power.
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