May has arrived and with it Heroic Fantasy Quarterly issue #56, and oh we’ve got such sights to show you!  We bring you three stories, two poems, with art and The Bard returning to do audio.  We’ve got news on our first-ever comic, and news on both our upcoming kickstarter and our first-ever S&S writing […]

RED-AUTMN SEEKS HIS FATHER’S BONES, By Jonathan Olfert, art by Miguel Santos   At forty winters, Red-Autumn climbed into the forbidden tomb with an old man’s carefulness, clumsy in the dark. Engraved stone chewed his fingertips raw. There’d be worse pain tonight, succeed or fail. He caught his breath at the top of the carved […]

THE BLADE’S BARGAIN, by Robert Luke Wilkins, with audio by The Bard     Savander and the First Blades screamed out from the line of date-palms and swept into the oasis on camel-back, past the wooden placards painted with the green eye of Inari the Trickster. The cultists panicked, three dozen peasant men and women […]

PAGAN FIRES, by Rev. Joe Kelly, artwork by Karolína Wellartová   1   The peaceful still of the mire burst apart with the pounding splashes of panic-winged feet. Small furry animals scrambled for cover, little wading birds tittered and took flight, as the lad tore through the rushes, his streaming sweat half-frozen, his lungs aching from […]

THE UNBITTEN FRUIT, written and read by Oliver Smith   In the desert’s empty heart, it whispered, “I am the wind who wore smooth the tomb. Yet, still fair Aždaja, whom you loved and who loved thee, came to search the musty, statued halls; among the mould of skulls, forsaking her golden crown, for pages […]