THE CHILDREN BY MELISSA ALBERT Roll & Write It’s so hard to feel

It’s so hard to feel seen as a Cryptid these days

from the humble troops of the Astra Militarum to the mighty Space Marines – all led by the ancient tech-scholars of the Martian priesthood

or feathered friend in more meaningful ways

with features that mirror yet deviate slightly from typical Orc anatomy

Tahlia is thrown into the bloody arena of Sigmarite politics

THE CHILDREN BY MELISSA ALBERT Roll & Write It’s so hard to feelGuinevere Sharpe has two childhoods. In one, she and her brother, Ennis, live in the wooded shadow of their family's isolated Vermont farmhouse; in the other, the pages of their mothers world famous Ninth City books, where their magical adventures have made them household names. In reality, Guinevere's childhood isn't the enchanted idyll her mothers readers imagine: she and Ennis are growing up near feral, unwashed and underfed, escaping each day to