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...
UNSEEN WARRIOR, by Marlane Quade Cook Unseen She clutches her un-named weapon close Her gaze to the grim sky, frost-sleeted from dawn to twilight. Crouching, resting, unseen in the shadows unseen...
HFQ 37 Editorial Welcome back to Heroic Fantasy Quarterly! Summer is in full swing here in our part of the world, and we bring the heat to you! We hit hard with three stories, three poems, a bonus story, and...
THE PALADIN OF GOLOTA, by Djeli Clark Small clouds of dust kicked up to shouts and cheers as the latest struggle played out on the plain of Golota. Teffe could just make out bits and pieces, restrained...
THE FOREST OF BONES, by Christopher Chupik The day was already waning when Lucan rode through the Forest of Bones. Trees loomed all around him, oak and ash, moss draped over their branches like beards....
THE BLITZ OF DIN BARHAM, by Cameron Johnston When the dragon came, the love songs of nightingales ceased and the moon hid her face from the slumbering spires of Din Barham. From within black clouds an...
WHAT CLEV YUN WOULD WANT TO TELL, by Adrian Simmons In the hostage house of Soviran– the man who called himself king of the Tamoncol tribe– lived a foreigner. A one-time ally from a land so...
THREADS OF GOLD, by Adele Gardner Ariadne, robed in threads of gold, picks at her hem while in her father’s court. Unnoted, gold pools at her feet, a glittering stain speckled with blood...
WHEN THE LEGIONS WENT, by David Barber Outside, the wolf-howl and the dark. Around the fire Old Alba tells the tale of how he got this very blade from the last of the Rome-men in the days of his youth,...
THE NECROMANCER, by Ngo Binh Anh Khoa The sun was lost in arrows pouring down As raucous cannons boomed incessantly, Barbaric cries would far and wide resound Amid the field drowned in a blazing...