WINTER LUCK, by Evan Dicken, with audio by Karen Bovenmyer, music by Kevin MacLeod, and art by Miguel Santos   “Fall back!” Icy wind snatched the words from Ochiai Haruyoshi’s lips, the driving snow like a funeral shroud draped across his eyes. A flash of red armor was his only warning as the Takeda samurai […]

DRAGON’S HOARD, by Dawn Vogel   I come from a lineage of hoarders, hoarders of things both immense and dainty, gold, gems, other riches, treasures, and more, heaped into piles upon which they roost.   As for me, I hoard an esoteric love of knowledge, my wealth in tomes and scrolls, books and papers, and […]

RABBIT FOOT, by Colleen Anderson, read by the author the clumsy man a stumbling woman saw the fleetfooted hare   thought to harness the zephyrs of air the breath of change the lagomorph run   to escape the pains the world bestows they used sympathetic magic imparting pain to be freed   each person leaps […]

THE WIND THROUGH THE FIELDS, by Aidan Redwing, audio by Leeman Kessler THE FIELD Cold snow, like arrows, falls softly. Carried on Winter’s wind it buries the warm bleeding bodies. Pale skinned and lifeless, eyes stare, blank gazes, death glazed. Noble lords, lowborn soldiers lie together, filling a common grave. None live that do not […]

Happy November!  With the cruel summer behind us, and the welcoming cool of the fall and the cold of winter on the way, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is here to help you thread the transitions.   We bring you three stories, one poem, with art and audio. Fiction Weights and Measures, by Benjamin C. Kinney with art […]