A LEGION OF LECANOMANCERS, by Devan Barlow     There is no bottom to this river only floating shreds of fabric garments of lecanomancers before us warped with age with prophetical witnessing   From the realm’s corners and crevices we came each dragging our distinctive dust worries baggage   At this river rumored to hold […]

TRUTH, by by Aidan Redwing I taste the words like blood in my mouth because no one I love is safe and you don’t deserve peace. I feel the anger in my veins as a I stare at my hands, trembling at the thought that the hands of a bard should carry a blade. But, […]

Summer sizzles across the plains and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly sizzles across the internet like Smeagol after a double gainer into the Cracks of Doom.  We bring you four stories, three poems, artwork and triple, triple, TRIPLE! audio! Dig in! Fiction Contents Bride-Price Paid Twice, by Gregory Mele.   Revenge simmers and boils over in this story […]

BRIDE-PRICE PAYED TWICE, A TALE OF THE AZATLÁN, by Gregory Mele   My grandson is in trouble again, eh? Pele complaining you spend too much time staring out to sea, dreaming? Pah! Then he should not have named you Akkelu. I named your father Pele, after the great Akkelu’s father, and he saw fit to therefore […]

THE GOLDEN GOAT CAPER, by Mark Finn, audio by the author, art by Simon Walpole   When we last saw Larsen and co. (back in HFQ #50, The Carnival Job) they were posing as a traveling carnival as a cover story for their nocturnal criminal endeavors. Four years later, they’ve picked up some new talent […]