UNSEEN WARRIOR, by Marlane Quade Cook   Unseen She clutches her un-named weapon close Her gaze to the grim sky, frost-sleeted from dawn to twilight. Crouching, resting, unseen in the shadows unseen though she should stand and call upon herself the wrath of an army’s horde. Unseen, unknown Warrior woman, she calls herself. Warrior-maiden until […]

HFQ 37 Editorial Welcome back to Heroic Fantasy Quarterly! Summer is in full swing here in our part of the world, and we bring the heat to you! We hit hard with three stories, three poems, a bonus story, and bonus artwork and audio!   Fiction Contents Paladin of Golata, by P. Djeli Clark. The […]

THE PALADIN OF GOLOTA, by Djeli Clark   Small clouds of dust kicked up to shouts and cheers as the latest struggle played out on the plain of Golota. Teffe could just make out bits and pieces, restrained as he was with an arm firm around his head. There was only a stifling darkness, the […]

THE FOREST OF BONES, by Christopher Chupik   The day was already waning when Lucan rode through the Forest of Bones. Trees loomed all around him, oak and ash, moss draped over their branches like beards. He saw no animals amidst the green shadows and the only birdsong Lucan heard was the cawing of crows. […]

THE BLITZ OF DIN BARHAM, by Cameron Johnston   When the dragon came, the love songs of nightingales ceased and the moon hid her face from the slumbering spires of Din Barham. From within black clouds an ominous whoomph whoomph whoomph of immense wings, then a heartbeat of dreadful silence, followed by the whistle of […]