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Fading Blue V.III is filled with an assortment of poetry and short stories. This is the third installment in the Fading Blue poetry series.

Dive into the mystical world of Dracoria, where ancient dragons soar through the skies and the fate of the world rests in the hands of an unlikely hero. In this gripping first installment of A.K.Finch’s captivating series, Lian, a young blacksmith’s apprentice, discovers he is the chosen one foretold to bring balance to a world on the brink of chaos.

Noah Kendall loves his family but hates his teaching job. Mortgage, bills, and mouths to be fed: He’s stuck in a rut. And with more debts piling up each day, he knows that something has to change. As he opens yet another red letter, he has to get out and clear his head, despite the heavy snow outside. His legs ache as he runs deeper into the forest, until he notices something in the distance - a crashed car, sitting dead still. Inside, a girl sits slumped in the driver’s seat, eyes closed, mouth open, skin gray beneath the winter frost. And then beside her he sees it: a bag of money.

Here are six stories from the January and February 2003 issues of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, at once more current and more human than today's headlines.