THE PRIESTESS’ DAUGHTER, by Jennifer Blackford I barely remember my father’s golden eyes, or his shouted laugh that made even my solemn priestess mother smile. She knew too much and not enough of wild things. Before my father died, all the village children envied me. He was the only man we knew with his own […]

JUMBLE, by Mary Soon Lee, art by Gary McCluskey Twilight. Two men on the snow. Tsung’s thoughts jumbled, snow below him, above him, branches thickened by white. King Xau bent over him, blood trickling from the king’s shoulder. Red blood, white snow as Tsung drifted in and out, the king’s hands on his stomach– pressure, […]

Well-met and welcome to Heroic Fantasy Quarterly Issue #42! The weather here has finally cooled down and HFQ turns up the heat with four stories and two poems and accompanying illustrations.  Without further delay, let’s get into it!   Fiction Contents A Night in the Library, by Robert Zoltan, with artwork by Robert Zoltan. The […]

A NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY, by Robert Zoltan 1  In the city of Merth, in a dimly lit bedchamber of a mansion on Silverhand Lane, Kora Dervan stared at her reflection that stared at her reflection that stared at her reflection… She sat in a corner between two mirrors that created an infinite number of […]

ECHO OF THE SIREN   “Have you a death wish?” my son Telemachus asked, exasperated. “You are the only mortal to hear the song of the Sirens and live. Why in the gods’ names would you go back there?” Next to him, Penelope stood silently, her smoldering eyes and clenched mouth showing pain and disappointment. […]