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...
As the spring rains bring forth flowers, so does Heroic Fantasy Quarterly bring forth the best adventure fiction and poetry! We’ve got four stories, two poems, with artwork and audio for your enjoyment. Behold! Fiction Contents Daughter...
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...
SATHANO THE SLAYER, by Jeremy D. Farkas, with artwork by Miguel Santos, and audio by Karen Bovenmyer and Timothy Menzel. What happens when a man is kept as a beast, when he is stripped of his...
THE SEA SINGS BACK, by Dawn Vogel “Entertain us,” say the waves, With unspoken promises that If we do, they might spare us. We chant our tales of valor, Of the things we have seen,...
Summer has hit in full force, as has the weighty hammer of HISTORY! The Covid-19 pandemic still grips the U.S., as has a long season of good trouble of civil unrest; the cult of Set anti-maskers and the...
ASSAILING THE GARDEN OF PLEASURE, by Daniel Ausema, audio by Karen Bovenmyer ASSAILING THE GARDEN OF PLEASURE To reach the master’s pleasure garden, adepts must follow the path precisely. Where it splits,...
FOX HUNT, by Rebecca Buchanan, art by Simon Walpole It was a truth universally acknowledged among foxkin that humans were silly creatures. They built their dens of wood, rather than taking advantage of nice,...
INSTRUMENT OF VENGEANCE, by Howard Andrew Jones, artwork by Darian Jones “You would not think her extraordinary, to see her,” the musician told us. “She has few ornamentations.” His hand rose, fluttering. “My...
APPLES OF THE GODS, by Jane Dougherty I walk through the orchard, taking the path between the plum trees and the blueberry bushes, touching the cloudberries and the bright clusters of hazel nuts. I let my...