Free Fantasy Poetry

Parnassus Pub

Almost last call and the place is packed. Conversations blur to barbar. A string of satyrs makes eyes at the mirror. Some Artemis staggers her way to the loo. Apollo of the hour sips wine with the nymphs. Tender’s the nightcap: a chaser of Ouzo— I’m primed to ride Pegasus all the way home. More of Frank William Finney’s poetry is available in The Literary Fantasy Magazine: Winter 2025 Frank William Finney is a poet from Massachusetts who taught literature in Thailand for 25 years. A Joint winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry, his poems have appeared in…

Free Fantasy Poetry

For Immediate Release, Delphi

More of William R. Ramsey’s poetry can be found in The Literary Fantasy Magazine: Winter 2025 Stiffened by the sumptuary blending of hereditary sorrow and the sum perfection of tomorrow’s unforeseen frustration, a perturbation of the field persuades us that tonight will be unlike today. Apologies to perturbations past, whose bloody entrails yesterday forebode the bulk of this: the small red berries grown recalcitrant and sullen, exogamous legumes withdrawing from our touch in such a way as to suggest a recurring trauma. All oracles agree, there will be more trauma. Current trends toward increasing workplace automation will continue. What we…

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Shepherd

Art by Kim Holm. More of Lee Patton’s work can be found in The Literary Fantasy Magazine: Winter 2025. Do you understand what I am asking of you, Mical?” Azra said, his amber eyes glowing in the pale moonlight spilling through the window of an otherwise dark room. The fire had long since succumbed to the ravages of time, ousted by the passage of long hours. Mical sat in silence, pondering the question. His gray eyes fixed on the smoldering ashes in the fireplace. The dull red light of the embers brightened, dimmed, then faded away. Mical could not help…