Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #69 is here to help you ease out of the burning heat of summer and into the smoldering heat of fall.  How will we accomplish this remarkable task?  Awesomely, as always!  We’ve got a Cimmerian-sized issue, with four works of fiction, three works of poetry,  and the next page of “Ancestors”.  We’ve […]

THE TINKER’S COME TO FIX YOUR WARES, by Galen Gower, audio by Leeman Kessler     I squatted by the roadside, footsore and wind chapped, and tossed my fortune in the dusty hardpack. I read the omens of bone, tooth, and claw and today there are ill portents for me. The footbone of the coyote […]

TO DAZE THE SEA, by Daniel P. Kelly, artwork by Karolína Wellartová, audio by The Bard       The Mountain   I could barely hear the Elder Over the spittle gale flying From the hag’s mouth of the wind. And yet that day I received A Divine Command. There, on that slurry mountain, That […]

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, […]