OLD GHOSTS, A TALE OF AZATLÁN by Gregory D. Mele, art by Justin Pfeil   It is not hard to kill a man. A thrust up, under the ribs; a hard blow to the thin bones of the temple or the base of the skull; a deep cut to the neck or the inside of […]

THE PASS, by Nick Mazolillo, art by Andrea Alemanno   Strand wasn’t afraid of what lay on the other side of the rope bridge. The opposite side of the canyon was a constant wall of fog. No one ever came from the veiled end of the crossing, and all those Strand and his father allowed […]

RECOMPENSE, by Gerri Leen, art by Karolína Wellartová     Golden mare No rope shall hold you Now that you have Run your last battle I will take your killer’s horse— A lacking replacement But willing with the right touch— As our enemy bleeds out From a hundred small wounds A lingering death As compensation For […]

AMONG THE SCYTHIANS, by Deborah L. Davitt, art by Simon Walpole, audio by Deborah L. Davitt         Copper, so expensive, so rare— did you know that the sunbright ore only comes from a distant island in a sunbathed sea we’ll never see, where it’s so common the people there walk on streets […]

As 2021 finally begins to shed the weight of 2020, we are happy to put out issue #48 of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly!  We’ve got three stories and two poems, with art and audio to help you get through the summer.  On to it!   Fiction Intrigue in Aviene, by Steve Dilks,  Hardened mercenary Bohun of […]