February, named after the Roman festival of purification ‘Februa’.  Have we finally purified ourselves of the year 2020?  Let’s hope so!   We here at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly are attempting to purify ourselves of being over three weeks late in our issue updates—which may sound a bit hypocritical being that this issue is two weeks late—but […]

EVERYDAY SOMETHING TRIES TO KILL ME, by Todd Honeycutt, artwork by Andrea Alemanno   Timo had left the Queen’s court three weeks ago, too long for such a simple errand. “Bring me a giant’s eye,” the magician had requested. “The left one, of course, is preferable.” As if the side of anything mattered. Two days […]

JACK O’ WRAITHS, by Phil Emery, with audio by the author, artwork by Karolína Wellartová     Jack stretched out beneath the afternoon sun and chewed a stem of wheat and drifted back to Nell’s face above his in the barn that morning. Motes of hay dust had floated down onto his bare chest and […]

THE DEMON FESMAN, by Lynn Rushlau     Exhilaration buzzed through Reigh’s limbs as she crossed the Convoco’s threshold for the first time. Demon Speakers in every shade of orange thronged through the meeting hall. Dozens already clustered in their seats on the tiers of the flame shaped walls. She beamed at the room. Could […]

FOUND IN A HIDDEN CAVERN, written and read by Colleen Anderson   Found in a Hidden Cavern Notations on Artifacts & Manuscript I in icy seas black as a villain’s heart in depths the sun fears to touch lies the last of a knowing race encased in a shell, waiting for that moment between breath […]