DRAGONS, by Anna Remennik, Art by Karolína Wellartová   taxonomy: The smaller land-bound drakes have vestigial wings and are not true-breed dragons. And the serpents of seas and lakes are amphibious, unrelated, indeed not dragons at all. But the vast true wyrms, six-limbed and armored ventrally in scales, are classified as dragons. For these terms, see dragons, […]

As we stand on the edge of summer, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly brings you a full issue of adventure and action, with four stories, three poems, art and audio (with more on the way)! Fiction Contents Carpe Caput, by Evan Dicken with artwork by Pen Anders, and audio by Karen Menzel.  Nastazo Balicosta, warrior/wlwyer  of the […]

CARPE CAPUT, by Evan Dicken, with artwork by Pen Anders, Audio by Karen Menzel, Music by Kevin MacLeod     Nastazo Balicosta was thinking of dinner when his client tried to strangle him. This shouldn’t have been wholly unexpected–the woman had murdered six city guards. Still, she was securely restrained, and it was Nastazo’s last […]

RETURN TO THE TOWER, by Harry Piper, Audio by The Bard   I was born in his shadow, in a sense, though I suppose we all were; the sorcerer’s great tower of silvered glass threw its shade across our valley, across our village and across every man, woman and child who lived there. The name […]

DRAGON BAIT, by Ray Daley, Art by Karolína Wellartová       In hindsight, I should have realised it was going to happen, sooner rather than later. If I had been able to come to that conclusion, I could have been raking it in, hand over fist. Of course, it took a knight to notice. […]