AN OCEAN AND A TIDE, INTERTWINED, by Joel Glover   The Fifth Realm is a beach which stretches From a horizon which cannot be touched to one which cannot be seen There is an ocean somewhere, An ocean and a tide. There is an ocean somewhere, An ocean and a tide. Grains slip between Ásgeirr’s […]

Happy November!   The cycle of the year turns and the last grasping claws of summer finally have released their grasp.  So fill your grasping hands with issue #66 of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly!  We bring you three stores, two poems, art and audio, plus S&S news and information. Fiction Contents Barnaby’s Deceit, by Al Onia.  In […]

BARNABY’S DECEIT, by Al Onia, Audio by The Bard     “I’ll be back before dawn,” Barnaby whispered. A lie, if the night’s task succeeded or went awry. The small man slid from Aida’s cot in the troupe’s lead wagon and donned his tunic, belted his short sword and mouthed a silent prayer to Beltrum, […]

SANDS & FOREST, by Jason M. Waltz, Artwork by Andrea Alemanno The far edge of the empty grasslands came quickly. Too quickly, in Sands’ estimation. Then he realized his horse had fled along a path new to him, though obviously not to it. Perhaps leaping atop the bare back of the shaman’s blue roan had […]

GREAT FIRE, by MR Timson, Artwork by Miguel Santos   They say all stories start with a spark, a fragment of a flame that drifts through the air, landing unnoticed on something ready to burn. The alchemists write that we all have fire in us, just waiting to be released. But to this day, I […]