BRIMSTONE BASIN — Flooding across the northeastern hell-province of Ashamora remained severe Monday, with officials confirming two more overnight deaths, raising the toll to 100 in what has become yet another annual pageant of preventable suffering dressed up as “seasonal weather.” Weeks of punishing monsoon rain have swollen the great Wrathmaputra River and its lesser […]

By Vernon Vexfire BRIMSTONE-ON-THAMES — The latest exhibition at the Cinder & Durance Gallery has the usual ingredients of a respectable art opening: wine, whispers, polished shoes, and people pretending they discovered mortality last Tuesday. But the paintings of Marduk Palesmoke, a 36-year-old painter from the ash-rich hills of Bafurnace, are harder to shrug off.

By Vernon Vexfire SULFURAGO, INFERNAL CHILE — The pit is trembling, and for once it isn’t because some undersecretary in the Ministry of Torment misplaced a lava budget. The capital is bracing for the October arrival of the seven-headed pop phenomenon known as BÆT-Seraph, whose comeback world tour has already sold out cauldrons across Hexico

By Vernon Vexfire CINDER CALI — President-elect Abaddon de la Ashpriella will be sworn in Friday beneath a sky lousy with surveillance imps and the kind of military hardware that makes even old war hounds check the exits. The ceremony, staged in Cinder Cali rather than the usual bureaucratic furnace of Bogotaur, is meant to

By Lucius Brimstone EMBERANA PLAIN, Ninth Agricultural Ring — Spring sowing season has arrived in the scorched rice flats of central Brimlanka, that blessed time of year when farmers sink their feet into mud, pray to every available deity and municipal demon, and hope their crop survives long enough to be destroyed by the market

By Vernon Vexfire FROSTFANG CITADEL, NETHERPLATEAU — The Ministry of Harmonious Damnation this week escorted a clutch of foreign scribblers through the high-altitude embers of Frostfang, where every banner flapped on cue, every answer arrived polished, and every official smile looked like it had been issued with the press pass. At the Emberleaf Elders’ Hall,