Jiron the swordsman has his tiger sword, his badges, his cool hat, and his wits, but some ways of primitive worlds are beyond understanding.

Day in and day out, hollowed-out men fight and die for glory and coin in the fighting pits. But those who survive are forever changed- some could say that two men enter, a third man leaves. Matthew Atkinson locks you in with this SHORT STORY, a relentless sequences of stabs and slashes, from his collection, Liquid Lightning.