1. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly&...

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!)....

2. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly-...

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...

3. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly&...

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...

4. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly&...

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...

DOORWAYS

DOORWAYS, by Jennifer Crow, art by Simon Walpole     Touch the wood, rough with age and peeling paint. Sun has poured its afternoon heat into the grain, the brass knocker hot enough to sear flesh....

Heroic Fantasy Quarterly–Q58

HFQ senior editor Adrian Simmons has been filling in the edge of the wilderness hexmap and the encounter locations in the urban settings.  From such dangerous locales we have brough you the best  S&S...

DRAGON TEARS (PART 2)

DRAGON TEARS PART 2, by Caleb Williams, Artwork by Gary McClusky Larohd du Masiim was a scribe of Varushe trained from his youth in calligraphy and blood magic, now an exile after his affair with princess...

ISLE OF THE THOUSAND-EYED STRANGLER

ISLE OF THE THOUSAND-EYED STRANGLER, by Dariel R. A. Quiogue   Set in a fantastical version of the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, the Perfumed Isles are home to prince-turned-reiver, Pandara, who...

THE THIRD WAY

THE THRID WAY, by Darrell Schweitzer   So we rode, by magic, across the wide ocean as if over a dusty plain, into the burning lands, into the country of sunset near the world’s edge; we rode, the...

THE WITCH AWAKENS

THE WITCH AWAKENS, by Julie Shiel   Rain lost its sound that day and the churning Autumn skies fell silent as I stood gazing into the dark facing that sulfurous breeze.   The harvest feast was upon...

SELAPHESNE

SELAPHESNE, by Kevin Sandefur, with artwork by Simon Walpole   The proud banners tremble and drift as they fall, Like a tapestry tumbling soft from the wall, But there aren’t any guards left to answer...

HAMELIN IN THE DISTANCE

HAMELIN IN THE DISTANCE, by Maria Schrater, with audio by the writer     My fiddle will not tune right, and my bow is prone to breaking I am a poor musician whom all melody has forsaken I used to...

Heroic Fantasy Quarterly–Q57

August!  The hammer of the year has dropped on us here at HFQ.  But such solar savagery shirks us not a shred in our search to bring you great S&S fiction and poetry!  We’ve got three stories, two poems,...

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