"Even Ira’s own dark arts had been made superfluous. He ruefully admitted to himself that he had missed the devil in the details.

'Sam… I miss the incantations, the elegant curses, the risks to my soul. We’ve been supplanted by geeks and I’m afraid there’s no hope.'"

#funny #magic #anti-AI #humor #humour #fiction #robots #wizards #humorousfiction #laboratory #legoillustration #lego

Read Ed Ahern's "The Spellcaster" in issue 18:

https://onceuponacrocodile.wordpress.com/current-issue/the-spellcaster/

ISSUE 18 is now up and at'em! Featuring short #funny #stories and #poetry by M N Wiggins, Keith Vile, Mark Reasoner, Bob McAfee, Jeffrey Zable, Marc J Guillotte, Sean MacKendrick, Ed Ahern, and Nicholas De Marino.

#humor #humour #zine #fiction #poems #writing #reading #writersofmastodon #free #legoillustration #lego

https://onceuponacrocodile.wordpress.com/current-issue/