BCS 074: The Lady of the Lake

Issue #87

This task had not been set to us but to him. How long might one live if they denied a god? Susanoo could not drown me in these waters, nor could a blade pierce my heart, but he commanded all of Yomi, and what tortures he might devise there I did not wish to know.

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E. Catherine Tobler was born on the other side of the International Dateline, which either gives her an extra day in her life or an extraordinary affinity when it comes to interdimensional gateways. Her fiction can be found in Clarkesworld Magazine, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, Fantasy Magazine, and several times in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She is the senior editor of Shimmer Magazine and calls Colorado home. For more, visit www.ecatherine.com.

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