August has arrived and with it comes Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #41. We bring tales of adventure and action, from mythic history to the American West to remote islands of South America, and our poetry delves into the story that often lurks behind the story.  Dig in!   Fiction Contents Kamazotz , by Greg Mele, with […]

KAMAZOTZ, by Greg Mele, artwork by Justin Pfeil   I. Bronze helm glittering in the new day glow of the risen sun, the man plunged from atop the truncated tower’s sloping walls like a spear hurled by an angry giant, narrowly missing rocky slopes of the low crag upon which it stood. He hit the […]

THEN, STARS, by Michael Meyerhofer, Art by Simon Walpole   I know nobody cares about a squire’s dying words, but Eli Ben-Sodr insists it matters, and he’ll write down whatever I say just as I say it, so I guess I’ll humor him. Gods know he’s been kind to me, even though he could have […]

A FISTFUL OF SPELLS, A Spellslinger Story, by Zach Chapman, artwork by Ben Terdik   I threw the two Striga bodies on Sheriff Hickman’s desk, knocking over a dozen half-empty potion bottles. Glass crunched and Hickman flinched. “I—I don’t need the bodies!” He scrambled from his desk, barely avoiding a purple liquid that streamed to […]

SWORDS, by Colleen Anderson     Torn from the earth with hard edged tools biting into its mother’s belly hammered, chiseled, pulverized until it no longer recalls its long slumber A sword begins the chaotic journey of which it is forged Without love nor comfort nor the still acceptance of nature it enters a fiery […]