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...

DUSTS OF WAR

DUSTS OF WAR, by Ben Godby: The cart creaked, its wheels full of summer dust, as the peddler pushed it gently up the slope of the road, past the first houses, and onto the main street of the village. It was...

SHADOWS AND HELLFIRE

SHADOWS AND HELLFIRE, by R. Michael Burns: “Dive heedlessly into death, and you will wake up.”                              — Yamamoto Tsunemoto,                              Hagakure All...

KINGDOM OF GRAVES

KINGDOM OF GRAVES, by David Charlton: Plague had come to the lands west of the river Elakk, and so Rakhar the Half-Orc came, too. He came to their towns with only his spade slung over his shoulder, taller...

YASHUB-GEB

YASHUB-GEB, by James Hutchings: Old Yashub-Geb fell out of space the last and greatest of his race. Deep doleful furrows framed his face — his stubborn strength was flagging. His scales were brass that...

THE BULL OF CONFLICT

THE BULL OF CONFLICT, by Lorna Smithers: I come from battle and conflict With a shield in my hand; Broken is the helmet By the pushing of spears. ‘Poem referring to Gwyddno and Gwyn ap Nudd’ – ‘Black...

HEROIC FANTASY QUARTERLY — Q14

Fall is here and with it comes Heroic Fantasy Quarterly Issue 14!  If cooler weather, football, and the renewed availability of Octoberfest beers aren’t enough to lift your spirits, surely three free tales...

A SONG FOR THE NEW KING

A SONG FOR THE NEW KING, By S. Boyd Taylor: Archimandrus was fifty when the commission first came. A poem, a psalm for the new coronation. Oh how glorious! He had waited so long for this. Years. Decades. Had...

DEATH AND DIGNITY

DEATH AND DIGNTIY, by Michael R. Fletcher: Thus Far: Some three weeks ago the Melechesh Pass, held for thousands of years by the Wizard’s Guild, fell to an unstoppable army of corpses. One corpse,...

THE SWORDSWOMAN

THE SWORDSWOMAN, by Jessica Salmonson: Sensing a weight of death and gloom observed by shades half-human, upon a steed that snorts at doom there rode the brave swordswoman. Her plume was white, her armor...

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