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...
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...
THE DYING LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS, by Dennis Conrad, art by Andrea Alamanno The globe-eyed thing screams and a thousand knives pierce the Crusader’s brain. He grits his teeth and tries to grunt through the...
MELKART AND THE MONKEY MEN, by Mark Mellon, artwork by Miguel Santos Paltibaal straightened up after milking a goat. Outside the pen, he saw a hunter. The old farmer shielded his eyes with a palm to...
ERASE THE SLATE, by Jonathan Olfert, art by Miguel Santos A proper funeral was not about the deceased. Sermons were to focus on gratitude for the eternal strategy of the Five On High. Ander Carmora — somehow...
THE PALIMPSEST OF MEMORY, by Deborah Davitt Brother Thomas bent over his desk in the scriptorium. The quill in his big fingers looked frail and delicate, in marked contrast to the worn and calloused palms. He...
THE HALF-ORC’S TRUE IDENTITY, by Christian Emecheta he pompously wears his injuries like blood on a battlefield, each scar extending like a city founded on agony and endurance. the sword...
AN OCEAN AND A TIDE, INTERTWINED, by Joel Glover The Fifth Realm is a beach which stretches From a horizon which cannot be touched to one which cannot be seen There is an ocean somewhere, An ocean and...
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...
BARNABY’S DECEIT, by Al Onia, Audio by The Bard “I’ll be back before dawn,” Barnaby whispered. A lie, if the night’s task succeeded or went awry. The small man slid...