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 […]

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 […]

SEA HENGE, by Phil Emery, audio by the author, artwork by Miguel Santos   The ship sailed north around the coast. North was where the war of tempests was to be fought. What exactly that meant was anyone’s guess – the crew on the ship had no notion, but they were only seamen, not sorcerers, […]