MORRIGAN’S SONG, by Colleen Anderson   Breathe in the moist air, smell the land within it. hear the movement of trees and animals all around far away, in daylight, the eagle’s call pins the sky deer ghost through the glen ravens call into the night as they settle into sleep you are before a cubby […]

SHAMANS, by David Farney   Countless tribes speaking countless tongues frequent xanthous shores of a long-burning lake. Come hunters, come nomads, come fishers too — unlikely neighbors enthralled by songs of shamans through whose lyrics tribesmen discover discourse.   But soon it seems the shamans sing too loudly — this common tongue strips mysticism and […]

From the depths of winter HFQ has arisen to get you through those last few months to spring with stories to both warm you and chill you!  Three full-sized stories and poems that will stick in your mind like stories. Fiction Contents Crazy Snake and the Cuguanaba, by Eric Atkisson Crazy Snake joins the ranks […]

CRAZY SNAKE AND THE CIGUANABA, by Eric Atkisson   I Help me. The horseman froze. He could not be certain if he had heard a voice at all–little more than a gentle whisper above the murmur of the falls, the branches rustling overhead in the night breeze, and the soft crunch of his pony’s hooves […]

WITH A GOLDEN RISHA, by  P. Djéli Clark The Hanging Stones of Ispa had been aptly (if also quite boringly) named. Twenty or more boulders floating high above the Jade Sea, as if unaware their weight should have made such a thing impossible. Some held a sorcerer had convinced the fool things they were feathers […]