The long gloomy days of winter getting you down? Eager to get out and back to adventure? Our offerings will lift your spirits and enflame your blood! We’ve got three original stories and a fantastic poem. Drag your chair to the fire...
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 fiction and poetry—well worth the...
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, audio, an ongoing graphic...
DRAGON TEARS, by Caleb Williams, pending artwork by Simon Walpole An elbow struck my side and woke me from an alchemical slumber. My limbs were bound to the mast of some ragged naval vessel. A boy held tight to the rigging. “Sorry....
THE CURSE OF BLOODBONE ISLAND, by Adrian Cole, artwork by Miguel Santos A tale of Elak’s Atlantis Prologue Under the watchful eye of the Atlantean moon, the Arrow, a sleek privateer craft, was at rest at the quayside of the small...
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, 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, 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...
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,...
DUEL, by R. M. Gulaya, artwork by Lilith Graves This was a magnificent place to spill blood. The clearing here was not a natural thing, but rather a scar, blasted out of the thick pine...
DRAGON TEARS, by Caleb Williams, pending artwork by Simon Walpole An elbow struck my side and woke me from an alchemical slumber. My limbs were bound to the mast of some ragged naval vessel. A boy held...
THE CURSE OF BLOODBONE ISLAND, by Adrian Cole, artwork by Miguel Santos A tale of Elak’s Atlantis Prologue Under the watchful eye of the Atlantean moon, the Arrow, a sleek privateer craft, was at rest...
THE CANDLE-MAKER AND HER KNIGHTS QUESTING, by Kelly Peach, with audio by The Bard The candle-maker wears a silken gown Of blackest ink and broidered gibbous moons And shiver sta rs. The candles,...
SHY DAISIES, by Gretchen Tessmer, with artwork by Andrea Alemanno She’s muttering to herself oh, clasp these hands together before we’re all done in— keep them steady keep them still...