This is my lucky 33rd Stone Skin Press Gods, Memes and Monsters anthology "Quick-Hit-a-Thon" post. It's about  a mythological creature that can sometimes be an omen. "The Magpie" is the second entry by the award-winning writer and bearded Canadian creator of The Forgotten Realms® fantasy world, Ed Greenwood. Greenwood's opening words harken back to earlier days: "Know, O Reader,"