A CURSE TO ARCHERY, by Aidan Redwing I am but a weapon in the hands of tyranny No choice but to march To the orders they decree Does the target blame the arrow Or the hand that plucked the string? Does the arrow weep when blood is drawn? If it had the chance would it […]

HOMEWARD, by Scott T. Hutchison, pending Audio by Karen Menzel     We muscle against wayward powers raging against us, pull our oars–this time into a soul-stealing quiet of vapors. Navigation is something none of us mumbles about. We sorely breathe the mist. Six grey-day passages since the storm that rained and wracked us. Illuminated […]

**9/14/24 update– We’ve uploaded page 12 of Gary McClusky’s comic “Spear and Fang” based on the Robert E. Howard story of the same name.  Check  it out here!** Summer is in full swing in our neck of the woods, and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly issue #61 is here to get you through that last, hottest, month.  […]

THE WAILING KEEP, by Tim Hanlon, artwork by Miguel Santos Foscari the Gate-Keep swung from the straw pallet in the corner of his room and stood. Naked, he limped to the door and opened it to the tumult around the Merchant Baldovinetti’s compound. Riders crashed through the gates and shouts crested the high walls. Foscari, scratching […]

THE PHYSICIAN’S TALE, by Jonathan Duckworth, artwork by Gary McClusky   ONE   JORGOS Jorgos of Kandreva could barely move his fingers, partly from the unseasonable cold, partly from fear. The tropadoro’s lute was an onerous weight in his trembling arms. The three Blighted looked down on him, pallid faces split with horrid grins, eyes […]