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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!)....
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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...
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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...
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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...5. BRIDE-PRICE PAYED TWICE
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...BARDIC DREAMS
BARDIC DREAMS, by Deborah Guzzi Bold warriors and women, shield mates, sat wrapped in the darkness, sheltered between knees warmed by their lovers and heat of kettle fire. A bard regaled with...A SEA-MONSTROUS HĂI GUÀI ATTACKS CHING S...
A SEA-MONSTROUS HĂI GUÀI ATTACKS CHING SHIH’S PIRATE SHIP, by Kendall Evans, with artwork by Simon Walpole I. Hand-carved, a distinctive figurehead perched High upon the prow of Ching Shi’s Chinese junk:...Heroic Fantasy Quarterly–Q38
Fall has clamped down hard on our part of the world, bringing relief from the summer’s relentless heat. And now, HFQ brings you relief from the long nights to come in the waning of the year! Four stories,...PREROGATIVE OF GODS
PREROGATIVE OF GODS, by Nathanael Green The gods are all of them gone to ashes. Some sent there by my own hand. Once, though, they were Twelve, often among us. That morning, the first time I met...RAFT OF CONQUISTADORS
RAFT OF CONQUISTADORS, by Raphael Ordonez Zisz the god-diatom skimmed the pelagic zone of space. The crystal vessel, both shell and ship, that housed Zisz’s tender self described a zigzag path...THE BELLS OF BEL-HAZIR
THE BELLS OF BEL-HAZIR, by Michelle Muenzler Long and loud are the bells of Bel-hazir. Thunderous mad, their tolling. At first light’s crack, they ring. Seven times each across the city, every...THE VAULT OF SOWDEK
THE VAULT OF SOWDEK, by Seth Skorkowsky Keeping to the cover of trees, Ahren followed an earthen trail toward the shadow stretching across the moon-lit orchards. The heavy rope coiled beneath his cloak...BLOSSOM
BLOSSOM, by Deborah Davitt Dozing in leaf-dappled shade, I heard him whispering love, and, dreaming, I promised myself to my unseen lover. Then leaves drifted to caress me as I slumbered. His hands were...BETWEEN BATTLES
BETWEEN BATTLES, by Mary Soon Lee A gentle waking, the patter of rain on the tent, six of his guards asleep around him in the darkness, King Xau’s thoughts rising from a dream of Shazia, his first wife....