Celebrating our 13th year in publication!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. Here is a sample of what you will find in this issue: A young boy discovers that a mathematical miscalculation can result in more than poor marks in Solving for X. The Big Bad Wolf and Grandmother share more than just an annoyance with a certain girl in red in Grandmother's Shoes. 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.