Free fiction from Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine

This month’s Free Library story reprinted from the March/April issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine is by Francis Soty, who delivers a delightful rendition of an Arabian Nights-style yarn in which a traveling mendicant, captured by three mysterious women, must relate a tale entertaining enough to save his head. If you like stories involving furious Ifrits, men turned to chimps, females of surpassing beauty, and sword-wielding Nubians, this is the piece for you!

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