This cover is for my short story "Anecdotal" in which I play with the edges of what qualifies as a story. 

Spoilers below:

 

 

 

 

 

In the story a first-person narrator tells someone the tale of an enchanted sword, but it's revealed that the narrator is simply using the story as a distraction so they can hack the system of the person hearing the story.

 

I overlaid the sword image on a circuit image and then messed with the transparency so that the circuits would show through. I used an old font to evoke the swords and sorcery idea, but the underlying circuits to hint at the end of the story.