Summer? Already? Time the Avenger will not be stopped, nor will Heroic Fantasy Quarterly! Behold issue #68, comin’ atcha with three stories and two poems, plus our standard cargo of outstanding artwork (that cargo is on the way!)....
Happy February! After being trapped in our lair due to incredibly cold and snowy weather, we have emerged to find a world gone quite mad. We’re here to anchor your sanity and give you respite with tales of adventure! What we bring you...
Happy November! The cycle of the year turns and the last grasping claws of summer finally have released their grasp. So fill your grasping hands with issue #66 of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly! We bring you three stores, two poems, art and...
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...
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...
THE MEDALLION’S SONG, by Ginny Patrick, artwork by Karolína Wellartová Twilight darkened the narrow alley in the marketplace. Serena hurried down an unfamiliar path, pulling her hood close...
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...
WINTER LUCK, by Evan Dicken, with audio by Karen Bovenmyer, music by Kevin MacLeod, and art by Miguel Santos “Fall back!” Icy wind snatched the words from Ochiai Haruyoshi’s lips, the...
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...
RABBIT FOOT, by Colleen Anderson, read by the author the clumsy man a stumbling woman saw the fleetfooted hare thought to harness the zephyrs of air the breath of change the lagomorph run to...
THE WIND THROUGH THE FIELDS, by Aidan Redwing, audio by Leeman Kessler THE FIELD Cold snow, like arrows, falls softly. Carried on Winter’s wind it buries the warm bleeding bodies. Pale skinned 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...
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES by Benjamin C. Kinney The East Wind blew in across the harbor and cut through Agnella’s fur-trimmed cloak. She faced the squall and loosened her cloak. This was no...
THE DIAMOND STARS by Robert Zoltan, with audio by Timothy Menzel A cool breeze caressed the stars of Plemora shimmering in night’s black blanket over the dreaming city of Merth. All but the most...