1. 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...

2. 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...

3. 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...

4. 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...

5. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly&...

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...

THE MERIT OF ONE GOLD PIECE

THE MERIT ONE GOLD PIECE, by Dave D’Alessio   He was an old man of perhaps fifty years, and his four teeth stank of cardamom. “Beatricsh iss me daughter,” he said. “She’ss not a witch.” “She failed the...

THE GATEKEEPER

THE GATEKEEPER, by Marlane Quade Cook Beat by beat, footsteps echoed on the stones that carved a path through the meandering hills of the wasteland. Swirls of mist dispersed at the traveller’s approach....

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...

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