RABBIT FOOT, by Colleen Anderson, read by the author the clumsy man a stumbling woman saw the fleetfooted hare   thought to harness the zephyrs of air the breath of change the lagomorph run   to escape the pains the world bestows they used sympathetic magic imparting pain to be freed   each person leaps […]

THE WIND THROUGH THE FIELDS, by Aidan Redwing, audio by Leeman Kessler THE FIELD Cold snow, like arrows, falls softly. Carried on Winter’s wind it buries the warm bleeding bodies. Pale skinned and lifeless, eyes stare, blank gazes, death glazed. Noble lords, lowborn soldiers lie together, filling a common grave. None live that do not […]

Happy November!  With the cruel summer behind us, and the welcoming cool of the fall and the cold of winter on the way, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is here to help you thread the transitions.   We bring you three stories, one poem, with art and audio. Fiction Weights and Measures, by Benjamin C. Kinney with art […]

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES by Benjamin C. Kinney     The East Wind blew in across the harbor and cut through Agnella’s fur-trimmed cloak. She faced the squall and loosened her cloak. This was no mortal wind, and all the more pathetic for it. She would let no bitter local god drag her into its games […]

THE DIAMOND STARS by Robert Zoltan, with audio by Timothy Menzel   A cool breeze caressed the stars of Plemora shimmering in night’s black blanket over the dreaming city of Merth. All but the most desperate revelers were tucked snugly in their beds. Only the most greed-driven merchants still blinked sleepy eyes to count coins […]