THIRTY-NINTH WAR BETWEEN INNIS AND MEQING: COMMENCEMENT, by Mary Soon Lee, artwork by Simon Walpole   Not a battle, but a raid, not on impulse, but under orders– Prince Connol would have risked his brother’s anger and questioned those orders had he judged it would do any good, but King Donal was set on war, […]

2021. Finally. Oh, do not rest easy my friends; we may have gotten out of 2020, but like the Battle of Pelanor Fields, it is just a prelude for marching upon Mordor, such is the situation we find ourselves in now.  The many, many, fires started in 2020 may have been put out, but there […]

THE SILVER LIGHT OF FOREVER, by Mike Adamson   Gareth waited with the same nervous impatience he had experienced before the Harvest every year. The green vestments of the duke fluttered softly about his chain mail and leather, and the worn grip of his sword was a comfort at his side, but the dread import […]

DRAGON’S HOARD, by Dawn Vogel   I come from a lineage of hoarders, hoarders of things both immense and dainty, gold, gems, other riches, treasures, and more, heaped into piles upon which they roost.   As for me, I hoard an esoteric love of knowledge, my wealth in tomes and scrolls, books and papers, and […]

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 […]