Tales & Feathers Magazine

Delighted to share that I have a new story out in Tales & Feathers volume 4 -- and what beautiful art for the volume's cover!

happy days everyone! augur came out with another banger yesterday & i have a story in it!! please enjoy <3

New story day! ✨

Ever wondered what it's like to be an NPC living in a TTPRG world? Get your weekly update in "Duskhollow Township Unbituaries, Week of the Harvest Moon"!

I’m so excited to have a story in this incredible issue! “The Trees and the Frogs and the Sun on the Water” is 50% insistence that queer love is magic, 50% insistence that poetry is magic too. I hope you love this one. 🌳 🐸 ☀️ 🌊

It's my first publication in English, and I loved each and every step of the editorial process. I'm more than happy to announce that Tales and Feathers volume 4 is now live. ❤️

Guess who's in here...

Tales & Feathers Magazine - Volume 4 Fantasy is full of world-ending dangers. But what comes after the adventure? After the war is over? After you’ve survived? Or even, after death?

A HUGE thank you to everyone who backed us on Kickstarter in 2024! Your support made this possible, and we hope you love reading this volume as much as we loved creating it! 💛

🎉 Special thanks to our Managing Editor, @loukoren.bsky.social, and the amazing @augursociety.bsky.social's Editorial and Production teams, First Readers, and Designers for bringing this issue to life!

Tales & Feathers Magazine - Volume 4 Fantasy is full of world-ending dangers. But what comes after the adventure? After the war is over? After you’ve survived? Or even, after death?

🎉 Thank you to our featured illustrators:
@nimasprout.bsky.social - “The Little Mouse Knight”
Andrea Viñas Notaro - “The Embroidered Garden”

Check out their incredible work in the issue 👉 augursociety.org/tales-and-fe...

Tales & Feathers Magazine - Volume 4 Fantasy is full of world-ending dangers. But what comes after the adventure? After the war is over? After you’ve survived? Or even, after death?

T&F Volume 4 features...

✒️ “Divinity, Abloom” by @nebulouswrites.com
✒️ “A Village Born After the War” by @awintersplace.bsky.social
✒️ “The Little Mouse Knight” by Aaryan Balu

Tales & Feathers Magazine - Volume 4 Fantasy is full of world-ending dangers. But what comes after the adventure? After the war is over? After you’ve survived? Or even, after death?

T&F Volume 4 features...

✒️ “Duskhollow Township Unbituaries, Week of the Harvest Moon” by @rjaurand.bsky.social
✒️ “Through the Doorway, I Watch Her Come and Go” by @diogolsramos.bsky.social
✒️ “Assisting the Necromancer” by Marie Pabelonio

& more! 👇

Tales & Feathers Magazine - Volume 4 Fantasy is full of world-ending dangers. But what comes after the adventure? After the war is over? After you’ve survived? Or even, after death?

T&F Volume 4 features...

✒️ “nohkôm’s Coffee” by Benjamin Johns
✒️ “The Embroidered Garden” by @manahil.bsky.social
✒️ “The Privilege of Copper, the Price of a Scale” by Kelsey Hutton

& more! 👇

Tales & Feathers Magazine - Volume 4 Fantasy is full of world-ending dangers. But what comes after the adventure? After the war is over? After you’ve survived? Or even, after death?

OR purchase a copy today to read the full issue!

T&F Volume 4 features...

✒️ “Covenant of Salt” by @keatingnotkeats.bsky.social
✒️ “I Will Bring You Tokyo” by @pscwillis.bsky.social
✒️ ”The Trees and the Frogs and the Sun on the Water” by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social

& more! 👇

An illustration with a green overlay of a small group sitting by a campfire in the countryside woods under the blue night sky. A cloaked figure sits beside a small furry animal with a tail, and in front of them is a storyteller whose body glows yellow from the fire. A deer is lying nearby, and there are three ghost mice with wings perched on a wooden fence watching. At the top of the image is a hanging wooden sign that reads: “Read it now” in white text. Underneath it reads: “Tales & Feathers Volume 4” in white text. At the bottom of the image are the last names of the authors: "Keating. Willis. Robinson. Johns. Bandukwala. Hutton. Aurand. Ramos. Pabelonio. Agoawike. Winter. Balu" in white text.

HUGE shoutout to @dikalaha.bsky.social for this GORGEOUS cover! It makes us want to gather close to the campfire and get lost in a story. 😻

Our next free piece is “The Little Mouse Knight” by Aaryan Balu! A battle-worn mouse and the shelter beneath an old hawk. Featuring this stunning art by @nimasprout.bsky.social! 🤩

READ IT NOW 👉 augursociety.org/the-little-m...

Covenant of Salt by Erin Keating In the beginning, in the end, there is the sea. Iona knew this, like she knew to share her food and drink with the waves that rolled past the sea-washed lighthouse. She was a keeper worth her salt.

Our first free piece is “Covenant of Salt” by Erin Keating. It’s about a lighthouse keeper, the sea, & a salt-made ghost. 🌊

READ IT NOW 👉 augursociety.org/covenant-of-...

Tales & Feathers Magazine - Volume 4 Fantasy is full of world-ending dangers. But what comes after the adventure? After the war is over? After you’ve survived? Or even, after death?

Dear readers,

TALES & FEATHERS VOLUME 4 IS NOW LIVE! 🎊

Fantasy is full of world ending dangers. Of wars & high stakes & lives on the line. But what comes after?👀

Subscribers can find the issue in their inbox within 24 hours, & we have 2 FREE pieces on our site RIGHT NOW!

Click the link below!⬇️

"Such a clever loophole," one spectator comments, peering through her opera glasses.
"Quite," her companion agrees. "Nothing but jumps. Why, it's hardly touched the track at all!"

They watch in silence as Frogger leaps forward. Then back. Then a bit to the side.

"Shame it's not exactly Faster..."

It took a year of planning, designing and painstaking construction, but on the morning of the race, it was finished. Six wheels, a body built for speed, suspension and shocks perfect for long jumps. The fresh paint gleamed, its name emblazoned on its side in bright, ketchup-red: HOTDOG-MOBILE.

They laughed when they saw it slowly clanking up to the start line steam hissing, water dripping.

No laughter after the Mole Mobile's first lap, running barely subterranean. Only the MM could use the ruptured track after its first lap.

I laughed, tho', when "in contact" later became "rest upon".

Most people believe in the Way of the Wheel. Every year there are at least two Trojan Horses and one Apple Car.

I can’t promise we’ll win, but the look of awestruck fear as the shadow falls across the track and a great honk reverberates through the earth makes the Goosemobile my favorite entry yet.

An illustration of a collection of shells on a wooden table with a brown overlay. There is a quotation mark in grey, and beside it reads: “Tales & Feathers Volume 3” in white text and beside it is a white square outline. Below is a white box and inside it reads: “You would have been impressed by my ability to mimic the brown and yellow colours and the delicate spires and grooves of the shell. So lifelike was my imitation that other molluscs kept their distance from me.” in black text. Underneath is the cover of Augur Issue 8.3, and beside it is a white rectangle that reads inside: “The Shape of Life, Jo Telle” in blue text. At the bottom of the image reads: “Read for free at augursociety.org/the-shape-of-life” in white text.

"The Shape of Life” by @jotelle.bsky.social, from @talesfeathers.bsky.social Vol 3, is a story of love, loss, and the shapes life asks us to take. 🦋

Check it out 👉 augursociety.org/the-shape-of...

An image under the sea with rocks at the bottom. There is a quotation mark in blue, and beside it reads: “Tales & Feather Volume 3” in white text and beside it is a white square outline. Below is a white box and inside it reads: “Each morning, we go down to the sea at sunrise, before di estate bell ring. We take a dip, as if to remind di sea, that she promise to carry us away. We are di second generation born free.” in black text. Underneath is the cover of Tales & Feather Volume 3, and beside it is a white rectangle that reads inside: “Galina, Carol B. Duncan” in purple text. At the bottom of the image reads: “Read for free at augursociety.org/tapetum-lucidum” in white text.

“Galina” by Carol B. Duncan, from @talesfeathers.bsky.social Vol 3, is a mythical tale of a fish-gyal, the rising sea, and ancestral memory. 🌊

Read it here ➡️ augursociety.org/galina/

An illustration of a Black little girl walking through a field of yellow-purple grass, towards a yellow light. At the top of the image reads: “augur + tales & feathers” in white text. Below it reads: “Black Words & Worlds.” in white text. In the middle of the image is a spread of the covers of Augur Issue 8.1, Augur Issue 8.2, Augur Issue 8.3, Tales & Feathers Volume 3, and a cellphone with an illustration of murmurstations podcast. Underneath reads: “Celebrating voices, art, and stories during Black History Month and every month” in white text. There is a yellow arrow pointing right below. At the bottom of the image is a white border with the Augur logo.

For Black History Month, we’re showcasing Black creators’ stories, voices, & illustrations! 🌟📚

From the light-hearted to the heart-wrenching to the deeply mysterious, these creators' imaginations captured our team's hearts.

Scroll down to see their work! ⬇️

I regard my barely-visible vehicle in disbelief, hearing the crowd gather in the stands. "When I said you could use any material -- " I begin, carefully.

He is haggard, crimson-eyed, unslept. He shrugs, despondent. "What is taken more lightly," he says, "than the promise of a pretty girl?"

6.5 km around the circuit. 28 laps to win. The only rules:

1. Vehicle must be in contact with the track at all times (barring jumps, see article 7.8.33)
2. Vehicle must be built by your hands only (see 3.2.9)

What creation will carry you to the finish line today?

#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt

Small cropped segment of a larger image showing a small ghost-like winged mouse creature perched on a fence post. Mysterious...

Something exciting is coming very soon... 👀

This is so exciting!! Congrats @muteddragon.bsky.social; can't wait to listen to it! 😍

It doesn’t matter what you ask for. The Tailor will give you what you need.

The cloak is thick and warm and wooly, the same grey as the cold winter landscape around me as I hike through steep drifts of snow. But the lining is threaded with warm-colored scraps and golden thread, a secret map home.

I'm much too shy to face them right away. But just as I think that sleeping underneath their shop eaves at the back isn't helping, they send off the last of their day's clients and throw the backdoor open. "Well?"

I hand them a shoddy crochet swatch, a half-darned sock. "Please, will you teach me?"