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Bards and Sages Quarterly

The journal is distributed in Print, PDF, epub, and Kindle format.

In this issue:

A selkie on a quest for revenge against the one responsible for her sister's death undercovers more than she bargained for in "Hallfrid."

A passenger at a Tokyo train station transforms into a miniature version of a Japanese movie monster...then things really start to get weird in "The Subterranean Beasts of Electric Town."

In the competition for souls, the Devil turns to a digital platform in "Patron of the Dark Arts."

A sampling of the stories included in this issue:

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.

July 2021 cover

A sampling of the stories included in this issue:

A Peruvian folk monster decides to try to make it in Hollywood and gets in over his head with the monsters already there is Pishtaku Out of Water.


A man overcomes a long-held fear in an attempt to find love, only to have his fear come back for revenge in Shadow.


A history professor stumbles upon a soldier’s journal that pulls him back to the battle of the Somme, where he encounters a long-dead relative in History Lessons.

April 2021 Cover

A sampling of the stories included in this issue:

The Big Bad Wolf and Grandmother share more than just an annoyance with a certain girl in red in Grandmother’s Shoes.

A young boy discovers that a mathematical miscalculation can result in more than poor marks in Solving for X.

A peculiar phone call from her husband is only the first in a strange series of events that upends a woman’s well-manicured life in She Could Be Me. 



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The Bards and Sages Quarterly

features original short speculative fiction from both new and established authors.   With each issue, our goal is to bring readers the most inclusive collection of speculative fiction available. 

The Bards and Sages Quarterly is eligible for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. 

Most issues of the Bards and Sages Quarterly remain available in digital format (PDF, epub, mobi/Kindle).

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