Welcome to The Bards and Sages Quarterly, a journal of speculative fiction. With each issue, we strive to bring readers a wide range of character-driven fiction from established and emerging authors in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction fields. The Bards and Sages Quarterly is the perfect sampler to explore the incredible range of storytelling found in the speculative genres.

Some of the tales in this issue include:

When a chicken's heart beats longer than it should, Mathilde must choose what to believe in if she hopes to save her sick daughter in The Movement of a Heart.

In Speak, a man tries to provide for his family in a world where your economic circumstances determine how well you can communicate.

A group of social outcasts selected by aliens to escape the upcoming destruction of earth decide to hold one last party before they go in About last Night.