Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts: Recent Episodes
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By Will McMahon, from Issue #442, Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
...to find that he now could not be certain of which way he had come...More info »
By Kate Francia, from Issue #441 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
She could do this simple thing: walk through her door.More info »
By Vijayalaxmi Samal, from Issue #439 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Dominick Rabrun.
There is nowhere else he could go. He will go where the letter takes him.More info »
By Alma Alexander, from Issue #436 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Dominick Rabrun.
That was why I did it. That was why, when she turned eleven, I said to her, “Go to Draconia. Look for your egg.”More info »
By KJ Kabza, from Issue #435 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Loory felt a corresponding restless within himself—a shifting, a re-opening, of places that felt both predestined and newly made.More info »
By Grace Seybold, from Issue #432 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Summer Fletcher.
I would be a sword no longer.More info »
By Eleanor Elizabeth Fog, from Issue #431 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Of all the follies I'd expected, this wasn’t one of them. “You want to carry this parcel that’s been dumped on you without having any say in the matter?”More info »
By Jelena Dunato, from Issue #429 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
He approached Katarina in one smooth move, too fast for her eyes to follow. He smelled of wet leaves and dark forest earth.More info »
By Nicole L. Soper Gorden, from Issue #427 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
But no visitor here would dare turn her in, whether they left with a cloud or not.More info »
By Somto Ihezue, from Issue #425 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Opeyemi Ogundiran.
They put you in a room with the other girls—soon to be brides like yourself.More info »
By S.L. Harris, from Issue #423 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I can’t stand the thought of Annemarie flopped on the lake floor, the last thought stamped forever on her mind that no one would come for her.More info »
By Thomas Bales, from Issue #421 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
They say that if I stop speaking, the sun will not rise.More info »
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #418 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
It was fair enough, but Alor couldn't say he fancied sleeping on a stone bridge with a lion and no naiads below.More info »
By K.J. Parker, from Issue #417, Sixteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Heath Miller.
Someone yelling inside my head gives me a migraine for the rest of the day.More info »
By Rajiv Moté, from Issue #417, Sixteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
The necromancers' wine wasn't merely dark; it sat in the cup like glistening black oil.More info »
By Max Franciscovich, from Issue #416 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
We are what he made us; you must know this.More info »
By Cat Rambo, from Issue #414 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Cat Rambo, the author.
“I don’t know if anyone would have gone in search after this dragon if it hadn’t been for the girl.”More info »
By Grace Seybold, from Issue #414 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.
Jinnie, since it was clear no-one was paying attention to her, darted out to scrub away the human’s footprints.More info »
By Emily C. Skaftun, from Issue #411 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Even so, I’m tempted to light my new soul candle. Mom.More info »
By Cara Masten DiGirolamo, from Issue #409 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
The hole would not have lingered with me if I had not once before seen a map marred with an unexpected hole that aligned with a place that had developed strange properties.More info »
By J. Bridges, from Issue #407 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
He was a shell of his former self by the time I found him.More info »
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #406 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
I could have refused. A year earlier, two years, I would have.More info »
By Liana Richmond, from Issue #405 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Maxine L. Moore.
He had taken hold of her, shooing away the fish pulling off bits of her softened flesh, and had guided her to shore.More info »
By Devin Miller, from Issue #404 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Maxine L. Moore.
"I drank a cup of ordinary coffee once with the Archduke of Holal," Osa said to the girl. "I need to drink it again."More info »
By Adam Breckenridge, from Issue #403 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Ash may be ash, but it still has a soul, and the shreds of Offas that had been reborn in me sung to the ashes’ tune.More info »
By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #401 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
I imagine my King on the spaceship that would take us away from the only home we’ve ever known in search of a new one. Most of us will live, but the King will die.More info »
By Emily McIntyre, from Issue #400 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
The black pupil—property of XCorp, almost human but not quite, recording every curly hair that falls over my face, every flutter of my breath, every tremble of my lips.More info »
By Elly Bangs, from Issue #400 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Summer Fletcher.
But what kind of weapon could possibly be made out of bittersweet memory?More info »
By Linda Niehoff, from Issue #398 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Music like that doesn’t belong inside. It belongs to outside in the night. Quivering in the air with every crawling thing.More info »
By Jenny Rae Rappaport, from Issue #396 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
At the table with you are three fairies, their clothing just as ridiculous and just as shimmering as your own.More info »
By Marilyn Hope, from Issue #394 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Cat Rambo.
Rang has wielded a bow since he was eight, and taking his aim at the King is a sleek and innate motion, like brushing Sunder's dark hair behind one ear to rest his lips on his temple.More info »
By Myna Chang, from Issue #393 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
My ghost is trapped in this bedchamber, much as I was in life.More info »
By Samuel Chapman, from Issue #392, Fifteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson and Michael J. DeLuca.
An incredible silence ensues. Cyfris lets the quiet stretch on long enough for Dovan to know she has caught him.More info »
By Kaitlyn Zivanovich, from Issue #391 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Sandra Espinoza.
When Rviv is twelve, she is walking through the town square with her Cuialo crechemates when a stranger hails her in her mother’s language. She stops; her friends do not.More info »
By Stephanie Burgis, from Issue #390 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
But in that darkness, there is also power.More info »
By Stephanie Burgis, from Issue #390 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
But in that darkness, there is also power.More info »
By Rajiv Moté, from Issue #389 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
“Those with power who do not act? I do judge them.”More info »
By Kay Chronister, from Issue #387 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Sandra Espinoza.
Maribel should have known that the new pig-boy would have to be named soon.More info »
By Kel Coleman, from Issue #385 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Maxine L. Moore.
He pointed out more mistakes; some amateur, others he still made on occasion.More info »
By Kat Howard, from Issue #383 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Eleanora loved the ossuary best as evening fell.More info »
By Kat Howard, from Issue #383 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Eleanora loved the ossuary best as evening fell.More info »
By Maria Haskins, from Issue #382 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
I loved my Mama. I know she did the best she could. But she was wrong to leave my brother here.More info »
By Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, from Issue #380 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by the author.
I knew the power the Godless were imbued with from childhood, to detect the parasite that had destroyed our gods.More info »
By Grace Seybold, from Issue #378 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Most of what she planted in the garden grew now, even if cabbages cried in the night and tomatoes disappeared.More info »
By Pooja Peravali, from Issue #377 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
How does one explain it to one such as her, how motherhood tugs at you?More info »
By Kelsey Hutton, from Issue #376 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Laurie McDougall.
She’d hoped to sew a dress powerful enough to remind the queen who the queen claimed as kin, and who claimed her in return.More info »
By Jonathan Olfert, from Issue #375 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
All four were Brothers of Dule, magicians of a shared heritage and shared interests, her enemies—and yet there might be fissures.More info »
By M.A. Carrick, from Issue #373 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Marie Brennan.
The warp is Constant Ivan, strong and steady. The weft is Clever Natalya, darting here and there.More info »
By Gretchen Tessmer, from Issue #371 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
She finds herself muttering to Jonah, “What if Leah never knows what any color but grey looks like?”More info »
By Tina Connolly, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
And this was apparently the point where she was supposed to feel lucky.More info »
By Christopher Rowe, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
All the cantrevs of his homeland had been burned.More info »
By Patty Templeton, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, detailing the feel and inspirations for the story’s world of Shady Grove.The trestle bridge caught fire in 1911. The train dropped. The ravine caught it.
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By K.J. Parker, from Issue #369 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by narrator Carla Kissane, who narrated the original BCS Audio Fiction Podcast of the story.“I paint by the inner light,” I said. I tried to make it sound like I was being facetious.
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By K.J. Parker, from Issue #368 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by audiobook and podcast narrator Heath Miller, who narrated the original BCS Audio Fiction Podcast of the story.For once in my life, I could walk down the street without looking for places to run to if I heard someone yell my name.
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By K.J. Parker, from Issue #366, Fourteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Heath Miller.
Try thinking about it, the Archer God had said, so I did.More info »
By K.J. Parker, from Issue #366, Fourteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Heath Miller.
Try thinking about it, the Archer God had said, so I did.More info »
By James Morrow, from Issue #366, Fourteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
Lot revisits his tankard and frowns thoughtfully.More info »
By Adam R. Shannon, from Issue #365 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Featuring Scott H. Andrews, Michael J. DeLuca, Tina Connolly, M.K. Hobson, and Summer Fletcher.
Annell's throws always rose high enough that the skies accepted her sacrifice. Why did she have to leave instead of me?More info »
By Eugenia Triantafyllou, from Issue #365 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
I am terrified of the moment when Osarah and I will hunt down the animal that bears our child and kill it.More info »
By Riley Neither, from Issue #363 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
I am not saying I don’t have the power. There’s no point in denying that. I’m saying I don’t have the right.More info »
By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #362 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
With an introduction from the author, explaining their beliefs on the story’s theme of individual freedom and autonomy.The fawn is still in its mother's belly. Sapo kneels by the doe and feels for the outlines of the little one with her fingers. A gasp escapes her when it moves under the dead doe's skin.
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By Valerie Hunter, from Issue #360 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
Amelia is the best pilot the Territorial Revolutionists have. That's not boasting, it’s just true.More info »
By Devin Miller, from Issue #358 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.
She has offered a dangerous thing, but oh, it is a sweet one too. To lie with a dryad, queen of the wood, would be an experience unlike any other.More info »
By A.J. Lucy, from Issue #357 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, discussing the story’s inspirations in complicity with institutional systems and activism risking that status for beliefs or people you believe in.Sere wouldn’t be able to send letters.
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By Cat Hellisen, from Issue #356 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
He was speared by a finless, and we watched his head rot at the edge of the sea.More info »
By Aimee Ogden, from Issue #355 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
Time is the greatest sorcerer, and eventually it will force him into a new shape: a sea-bloated corpse.More info »
By Derrick Boden, from Issue #354 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
The monster-thing watched with great interest. Leti turned the page and started to read.More info »
By AnaMaria Curtis, from Issue #353 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.
I always wanted the best of as many worlds as I could get my hands on, though I only ever managed two.More info »
By Jonathan Louis Duckworth, from Issue #352 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
My name’s Zilda Trueshake and I’m big for twelve, or so Dad Bray is always like to tell.More info »
By Patty Templeton, from Issue #351 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The trestle bridge caught fire in 1911. The train dropped. The ravine caught it.More info »
By Peter Darbyshire, from Issue #351 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, explaining the genesis of the Angel Azrael character, his horror-influenced Weird Western world, and the personal bibles in that world.The angel Azrael surveyed the remains of the town. The place was as dead as the horse he sat on.
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By Phoenix Alexander, from Issue #350 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, discussing the story’s inspirations from inter-generational political attitudes in families of immigrants and patriarchal culture and how its use of science-fantasy elements shaped its presentation.She says instead: "because he isn’t coming."
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By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #350 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
Thanh Lan walked to the door, legs shaking.More info »
By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #349 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
The third bonsai swayed to the bleak tides of distant and colliding black hole inspirals.More info »
By J.A. Prentice, from Issue #348 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
There was silence in the workshop, and for a terrible moment, he was afraid he would receive an answer.More info »
By Christie Yant, from Issue #347 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, posing questions as to who stories belong to and whether they matter.I had hoped to tell you the first story in the summers to come. It is my sorrowful task to tell you all three, instead.
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By Jonathan Olfert, from Issue #346 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
I thought I saw a smile flicker past in the dark, quick as one of his sharktooth arrows.More info »
By M.A. Carrick, from Issue #344 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms, the two authors behind the M.A. Carrick pen name.Ondrakja chose her approach and her moment with care.
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By Charles Payseur, from Issue #343 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, explaining the story’s take on resistance and cooperation.Rory nods. The bullets are Lutean-made, salt and iron and whatever special magic they use to make them potent against rivers.
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By Charles Payseur, from Issue #342 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, explaining the story’s element that oppression can link people together and can tear people apart.We ride stolen horses over the choked earth.
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By Jonathan Louis Duckworth, from Issue #342 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Unless Tadie didn’t let him. She stepped a pace back and pulled Loyd with her, away from Jessen.More info »
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #341 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, discussing the story’s approach to characters and politics and to political systems.I don't want to make all our letters about shrews, love, but... I've attached a table I'd like to see filled out with different properties of the shrews and their venom. Thank you!
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By Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, from Issue #341 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
"Tell me, Maria," she said. "What is happening to our people?"More info »
By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #340, Thirteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, explaining the inspiration for the story and its ending note.This particular mermaid had named herself Essarala, which means seeks the stars in the language of tide and foam.
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By K.J. Parker, from Issue #340, Thirteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Heath Miller.
Love is the arrow that pins us down so we can't escape.More info »
By Tamara Jerée, from Issue #339 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Maxine L. Moore.
Her voice is soft when she speaks, as if anything louder could aggravate my old wound.More info »
By Jenny Rae Rappaport, from Issue #338 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
But this is a test designed to weed the weak from the strong, and part of Bryce realizes that she must try something different.More info »
By Robert Minto, from Issue #337 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The angels plunged into the orange glowing mouth of my kiln.More info »
By Aimee Ogden, from Issue #332 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
I am still myself and so I am answered at last: yes, I have a soul, no matter what shape its vessel is forced into.More info »
By Tania Fordwalker, from Issue #331 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Shon knows silence well.More info »
By R.K. Duncan, from Issue #330 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Peter Adrian Behravesh.
Hassan had loved her, but his eyes had still been clear enough to know how the world saw her.More info »
By Marie Brennan, from Issue #329 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
None of them would talk about it—except to say, as her father had, that this was Penderel family tradition.More info »
By Adam R. Shannon, from Issue #328 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
Every new shore was the same: a blue expanse conjoined to unyielding volcanic stone, wreathed in a furious margin of foam.More info »
By C.L. Clark, from Issue #326 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.
Commander Maeb Len knows that, more than anything, an army needs hope in order to struggle onward.More info »
By Izzy Wasserstein, from Issue #325 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Setsu Uzumé.
The portents float at the edge of your vision, haunt your dreams, shake themselves free with each throwing of the bones.More info »
By Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, from Issue #323 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
She is Fallon Deere, First Minister to the Free State of Altorania, and you are you, the woman who sent me to her side.More info »
By Josh Rountree, from Issue #322 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.
I was never that person, no matter how hard Ellard and so many others tried to turn me into her.More info »
By Jelena Dunato, from Issue #320 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
Put me on, girl, you’ve nothing to lose.More info »
By M.A. Carrick, from Issue #320 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.
Ondrakja chose her approach and her moment with care.More info »
By P H Lee, from Issue #318 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Setsu Uzumé.
I meet you in the middle of the night in the garden where no one goes. More info »
By Cooper Anderson, from Issue #316 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Rajan Khanna.
There is no safety for us anymore in the waxing and waning of the moon.More info »
By Merrie Haskell, from Issue #313, Twelfth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
You carry a rifle and a dream of a white dress. You sleep under the stars. You hunt.More info »
By Richard Parks, from Issue #313, Twelfth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
A more tunnel-like hole had been dug into some of the graves, possibly to test them for the freshness of the corpses.More info »
By Lisa L. Hannett, from Issue #312 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.
A pause only Winnifletch herself notices, a twinge in her guts as she unsacks the gull that Gert Mews has lugged to her sea-spindle shack.More info »
By Jeremy Packert Burke, from Issue #311 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I have wondered these past two years which of us would meet our end first—myself or the city.More info »
By Prashanth Srivatsa, from Issue #307 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Peter Adrian Behravesh.
On the fourth night... ...I was at a wedding.More info »
By Greta Hayer, from Issue #306 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.
The augur could read on her skin that she would be cared for by an old man who was not her kin.More info »
By Emma Törzs, from Issue #305 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
I hear you are yourself of low birth, Monsieur de la Martinière, and so may understand what it’s like to experience, for the first time, not even luxury but safety.More info »
By Dimitra Nikolaidou, from Issue #304 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The clock is huge, its heavy frame carved with crow feathers and bees, and I dare not look at it too long for fear the hands will start moving again.More info »
By Devin Miller, from Issue #303 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
No troll’s life is so shaped by her body.More info »
By Eleanna Castroianni, from Issue #302 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
We are the only ones left to herd the ghost-sheep.More info »
By Kali Wallace, from Issue #301 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.We do not discuss, Nell and I.More info »
By Richard Parks, from Issue #300, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I knew from long experience that yūrei could take on shapes not their own in the course of settling unfinished earthly business.More info »
By Rich Larson, from Issue #299 – Science-Fantasy Month 5 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Rajan Khanna.One nerve cable was still in place, snaking from the gun into their skull.More info »
By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #298 – Science-Fantasy Month 5 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.This particular mermaid had named herself Essarala, which means seeks the stars in the language of tide and foam.More info »
By Tegan Moore, from Issue #297 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Though in the muffled dark of my room I wonder if I might instead go mad.More info »
By C.L. Clark, from Issue #296 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.
I made my way to Issheth, my boots crunching on the deck frost. Her eyes shone wet in the sunlight. Maybe it was the glare. Maybe it was not.More info »
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #295 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly and Setsu Uzumé.
I don't want to make all our letters about shrews, love, but... I've attached a table I'd like to see filled out with different properties of the shrews and their venom. Thank you!More info »
By Tony Pi, from Issue #294 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by John Meagher.
I carefully blew a caramel bubble and made sure that it was inflated enough to serve as the tiger’s body.More info »
By T.S. McAdams, from Issue #290 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Like the log stockades of Sredna, it would hold a ceratopsid until she decided to leave.More info »
By Mike Allen, from Issue #289 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Frowning at the hole left in Trukos's chest by the Goldbrook man’s knife, Mayya said, “Come with me.”More info »
By Grace Seybold, from Issue #288 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Today it’s the moon that has him thinking of long ago, but lately anything might do it.More info »
By Marie Brennan, from Issue #287, Eleventh Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by S.B. Divya.
Again and again I died. Better to cut my thread short and start again than waste lifetimes on a path that would not lead me to my goal.More info »
By K.J. Parker, from Issue #287, Eleventh Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Carla Kissane.
“I paint by the inner light,” I said. I tried to make it sound like I was being facetious.More info »
By Eleanna Castroianni, from Issue #286 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Something hardened in my world, the way it did every time my father told me that being a man meant being brave.More info »
By Aimee Ogden, from Issue #285 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.The morning of her last day as queen, Nehan's mouth begins to bleed before her attendants finish braiding her hair.More info »
By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #281 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
The fawn is still in its mother's belly. Sapo kneels by the doe and feels for the outlines of the little one with her fingers. A gasp escapes her when it moves under the dead doe's skin.More info »
By Jordyn Blanson, from Issue #280 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.“You most cover it up,” Aksá says, startling me. They hand me long strips of torn fabric. “Let no one know.”More info »
By Lisa M. Bradley, from Issue #279 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Sandra Espinoza.
If she were darker brown, might she disappear into the shadows altogether?More info »
By Karen Osborne, from Issue #278 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Setsu Uzumé.
Mila kept herself still like a statue, like the weapon she was supposed to be, even though inside she was screaming no, I will not, you can’t just ask me to do that.More info »
By K.J. Kabza, from Issue #277 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
In no time at all, I was flying south over fields and forest, as true as an assassin's arrow.More info »
By Troy L. Wiggins, from Issue #276 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.
Furious Jackson reclined on the banks of the BlackDog river and strummed her guitar for an audience of dead cypress.More info »
By Jessica Paddock, from Issue #275 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
But most of all she hated the bees, who buzzed about her head and asked to be let in.More info »
By Charles Payseur, from Issue #274 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Dave Thompson.Rory nods. The bullets are Lutean-made, salt and iron and whatever special magic they use to make them potent against rivers.More info »
By Alexander Stanmyer, from Issue #273 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Now Chester is a disciple. An acolyte to the rails. And this was to be their final pilgrimage.More info »
By Nin Harris, from Issue #272 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.
“Much of what we have in our lives originated as ideas in the human world—even in your parlour furniture.” Velia was always too happy to point out the obvious.More info »
By Samantha Mills, from Issue #271 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
It was unfair, the way he summoned her here for these tense bimonthly appointments. It was unfair, the way she persisted in showing up rather than sending an apprentice.More info »
By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #270 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Then the night comes when the Lady summons me to her room and I go, I do.More info »
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #269 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Setsu Uzume.
I killed my sister with my own two hands.More info »
By Beth Cato, from Issue #268 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly."Take a look. I have them here with me. Please, godling." The girl's fear seeped into the words—as did her faith that Dreya would make everything right again.More info »
By T.S. McAdams, from Issue #265 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
They lost Bragi—Harald lost him—in late spring, when the snow was mostly gone and meadows were livid with velvetbells, ogre-thistle, and mountain orchid.More info »
By Margaret Ronald, from Issue #264 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.Katrin had known since she was a little girl what her husband would look like, ever since she was old enough to understand that Aunt Gunna had deeded her farm to Katrin.More info »
By Megan Arkenberg, from Issue #263 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Every month when the soldiers bring her supply of flour and milk, they also bring waterproofed parcels of manuscript paper and cool bricks of ink.More info »
By Jaymee Goh, from Issue #262, Tenth Anniversary Month Double-Issue II of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.But the magistrate firmly believes that this pursuit will pay off. He will learn the secret magic potion, and he will be vindicated.More info »
By Fran Wilde, from Issue #261, Tenth Anniversary Month Double-Issue I of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.There are some in Quadril who will call that my first mistake. They'd be wrong, my child.More info »
By Nina Kiriki Hoffman, from Issue #260 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Setsu Uzumé.As the oldest, I had to make sure I and my four sisters and little brother gave greetings to our parents in their first year under the ice.More info »
By Justin Howe, from Issue #259 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.That morning, everywhere he drove he heard about the murder that wasn’t murder but business done by different name. “A dead incast in Pingree. Shot, tche.”More info »
By Damien Krsteski, from Issue #255 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.He stared into the flickering eyes of the monster he'd drawn, hypnotized, stricken, and his shivering stopped as grief became anger.More info »
By Blaine Vitallo, from Issue #253 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.Reilitas has dreamed of the snake, dreamed of hammering its beautiful onyx scales into ceremonial knives, shields, the faces of clocks.More info »
By A.J. Fitzwater, from Issue #252 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Dan Rabarts.Taking her place in line, the marmot graced her pirate lover with a toothy smile. "Can't let you have all the fun, Cinny."More info »
By Jonathan Edelstein, from Issue #251 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Slowly, Ukeme read the first row of characters: a knotty point of customary law. The second called for an essay on the Osun Republic’s conquest of Benin two centuries before. The third...More info »
By Richard Parks, from Issue #250, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.Now I understood my impression of the magistrate’s reaction. More, I did not miss Mei Li’s implication—it applied to herself as much as the magistrate.More info »
By K.J. Parker, from Issue #250, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Heath Miller.For once in my life, I could walk down the street without looking for places to run to if I heard someone yell my name.More info »
By Rahul Kanakia, from Issue #249 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by David D. Levine.
Sometimes the crimes were egregious. In these cases I ripped up the would-be magicians with no compunctions. But other times...More info »
By Cassandra Khaw, from Issue #248 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.Mei Huang repeats the rite so many times it becomes indistinguishable from breath, and still every iteration ends with the soldier dead.More info »
By J.W. Alden, from Issue #247 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Adia's fingers found the blade hidden in the folds of her kirtle. She dismissed the pang of guilt at the thought of what she now must do.More info »
By Phoenix Alexander, from Issue #246 – Science-Fantasy Month 4 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.She says instead: "because he isn’t coming."More info »
By Rich Larson, from Issue #245 – Science-Fantasy Month 4 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.The cube is like nothing she’s ever seen, an enormous black box composed of a thousand shifting slivers breaking and melding, rippling, almost liquid.More info »
By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #244 – Science-Fantasy Month 4 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.She had been a young cat when the Fleet Lords burned the City of High Bells.More info »
By Nin Harris, from Issue #243 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Malaguena refuses to play most of the pieces dedicated to the other moons, but this sonata, composed for the Swan Moon, accompanies our evenings.More info »
By Tamara Vardomskaya, from Issue #242 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.I won on my first attempt when I was fourteen; so long ago it seems meaningless.More info »
By Adam-Troy Castro & Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, from Issue #239 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
And with that I gave up so many things, so many golden sunrises and so many lingering sunsets.More info »
By Marie Brennan, from Issue #238 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.Dangling from a rope two hundred feet above the rooftops of Râu Tare, I find myself questioning the decisions that have led me to this point.More info »
By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #237 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.Serah avoids his eyes. "I've been pregnant a long time," she says after a while. "The baby won't come."More info »
By Rebecca Campbell, from Issue #236 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
There was a letter addressed to him and beneath it a chaos of paper, the slips and sheets and scraps in no obvious order.More info »
By Richard Parks, from Issue #235, Ninth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.Yes, one of the Three Jewels of the Tao was compassion, as my father would expound at great length to anyone foolish enough to sit still for it, but in practice we asked a price for such assistance.More info »
By Michael J. DeLuca, from Issue #234 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by the author.
But for the Wolf, Staggerlee would've written it off as a whiskey vision.More info »
By Fran Wilde, from Issue #233 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.Liras tried to remain at his workbench and finish the customer's wings, but the pain grew too much.
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By Charles Payseur, from Issue #230 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Dave Thompson.
We ride stolen horses over the choked earth.More info »
By R.B. Lemberg, from Issue #229 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
A special five-hour audio novella in celebration of our 200th episode of the BCS Audio Fiction Podcast! Narrated by C.S.E. Cooney.
Across great distances I hear her voice rolling over the sand, traipsing gently above bones of impossible beasts that perhaps had one day populated the desert.More info »
By Justin Howe, from Issue #228 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Not but three hours ago, beyond my study’s shuttered window I heard the song-girl recite those closing words from Horn’s Ashen Quintessence.More info »
By A.J. Lucy, from Issue #227 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Sere wouldn’t be able to send letters.More info »
By Richard Parks, from Issue #226 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.“Honored Father Pan Bao,” I asked, “Please tell me again why we are on this freezing mountain? I haven’t seen the sun since we entered this forest.”More info »
By Caroline M. Yoachim, from Issue #225 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.I wanted to be angry with her, but she was a stranger, she'd never really been a part of my life.More info »
By Tony Pi, from Issue #224 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by John Meagher.
I greeted the spirit of Dog echoing within my mind with a reverent thought. Your visit surprises yet honors me, Lord Dog.More info »
By Carrie Vaughn, from Issue #223 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Setsu Uzumé.Jared studied her, her sopping hair and gaunt face.More info »
By J.W. Halicks, from Issue #222 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
“We’ll play, and if you can't find me, then Mother stays.”More info »
By Rodello Santos, from Issue #221 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
She closes tear-drenched eyes, thinks back to a time when a word, a look, a nod could have made a difference.More info »
By Sara Saab, from Issue #220 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
In the amnesty-city of Vannat, Aln Panette has let guilt go.More info »
By Margaret Killjoy, from Issue #219 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Sal stood alone in the field, feeling the absence of her friend's touch. Being open to death was the cost of living free.More info »
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #218 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.
And Eirik's men made it out of the forest, and we made it back to our cave, and King Harald was still dead, still not coming back to save us.More info »
By Eleanna Castroianni, from Issue #217 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
Folu has forgotten how to read the cards, but something is stirring.More info »
By Claire Humphrey, from Issue #216 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
We dry the tongues on butcher's paper beside the stove. Once desiccated, they barely have a scent.More info »
By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #214 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.I wanted to ask her more questions, about the way the world was made, about death and dreams, but did not want to know the answers.
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By Evan Dicken, from Issue #212 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.I used to dream of the heart our masters would give me.More info »
By K.J. Kabza, from Issue #211 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Everyone stopped in front of the tree, staring at its asymmetrical horror.More info »
By Stephanie Burgis, from Issue #210 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
“Nonsense. You are my guest.” The dragon reached out with long, sharp, delicately curving claws and tipped the teapot.More info »
By Gregory Norman Bossert, from Issue #209, Eighth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Alasdair Stuart.While she sang, the crowded room was quiet, through her gift the audience made into unlikely brothers.More info »
By Jonathan Edelstein, from Issue #208 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.—What will she do? She will love you, and she will eat you. No, you can't cut through the reeds.More info »
By Marie Brennan, from Issue #207 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Liz Duffy Adams.
No matter how many times she watched it, Ada could not see how the transformation happened.More info »
By Marie Brennan, from Issue #207 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.Magrat was right. This man stood at the heart of it.
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By Rachael K. Jones, from Issue #203 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Setsu Uzumé.
One, two, three eggs into her mouth, one sharp bite, and the clear, viscous glair ran down her throat.More info »
By Ann Chatham, from Issue #202 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
The scrape and clatter of steps on stone was replaced by the rush of wind beating against her face with the strength of an approaching storm.More info »
By Catherynne M. Valente, from Issue #201 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Heath Miller.For the sake of the beautiful Dogaressa, I took up my father’s battered old pipe and punty.More info »
By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #200, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
And we won't be lovers, Tamalat thought, unless I can restore your shadow. She knew better than to sleep with him in his current state.More info »
By Seth Dickinson, from Issue #200, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
They pass through everything that will be lost if they fail.More info »
By A.T. Greenblatt, from Issue #199 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
"This isn't your choice," said Jade. "You're dead."More info »
By Fran Wilde, from Issue #199 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.I could not answer her. I had no memory of doing anything besides preparing the topaz.
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By Sylvia V. Linsteadt, from Issue #198 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Altair stood at the edge of the bay holding a blue salmon oil lamp with wick and flame made of fallen stars.More info »
By Tony Pi, from Issue #197 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
A 2016 Parsec Award Finalist for Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast.
Narrated by John Meagher.
My soul animated the river’s gift. I sculpted my liquid body as I would a glob of hot caramel, paying homage to my old beloved dog.More info »
By Tony Pi, from Issue #197 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by audiobook and podcast narrator John Meagher.My soul sunk beneath the platform planks and into a sturdy ox figurine with wisps of cooled caramel for its horns.
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By Alter S. Reiss, from Issue #196 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Over his years on the island, he had been given nine other books, but they had become outworn, nothing in them to distract him.More info »
By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #195 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.She would have run, but her legs betrayed her—a contraction, locking her in place, as frozen as the baby within her womb.
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By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #195 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
Thuy deactivates the suits' propulsion units and watches her daughter's remains, floating beside her.More info »
By Sarah Pinsker, from Issue #195 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine; a special bonus podcast episode for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 3.
With soldiers, with emperors, it could always be worse. After a moment I knelt beside her.More info »
By Cat Rambo, from Issue #194 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson; a special bonus podcast episode for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 3.
The glass-marbled plaza before the gates murmurs with spans of pigeons in the early light.More info »
By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #194 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.She cursed herself for freezing up and ruminating when the proper response was to react.
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By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #194 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
Nuclear physics was not typically a fox specialty, although my mother had allowed that astrology was all right.More info »
By Dean Wells, from Issue #193 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Consuming the native crustaceans had given rise to bone cancers and rotting ulcers of the skin, from which death was a cruel relief.More info »
By Tamara Vardomskaya, from Issue #192 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.Except that I learned that if they spoke truth, it was not to me.More info »
By D.K. Thompson, from Issue #191 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Read by Ian Stuart.
Despite my profession, I have never considered myself to be a holy man.More info »
By Walter Dinjos, from Issue #190 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Read by the author.
I longed for someone with whom I could engage in our papaya-pipe-gun battles in the surrounding forests.More info »
By David Tallerman, from Issue #189 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by John Meagher, who also narrated BCS 110: Ill-Met at Midnight, a previous tale of Otranto Onsario.
Otranto knew better than to ask why any man must die.More info »
By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #187 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.When she spoke, her voice stopped him, as surely as a knife drawn across his throat.
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By Cory Skerry, from Issue #186 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
But she wouldn't let him make it through the gate; the inside guards were there to deal with travelers. Kamalija was here to deal with monsters.More info »
By Rebecca Campbell, from Issue #185 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Read by Liz Duffy Adams.
I could not imagine that my charge could conceive something so strange, so unpleasant.More info »
By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #184 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
She bursts each night when he leaves her. She does not wash the juice from her skin but hides the blue stains beneath her clothes.More info »
By I.L. Heisler, from Issue #183, Seventh Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The other hand held aloft his trophy—the severed head of my mother.More info »
By Suzanne Palmer, from Issue #182 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Dan Rabarts.
It was more water than ever should be in one place, something so vast he scarcely could find the words. "Oh," he said. "This is a very large river indeed."More info »
By Fran Wilde, from Issue #181 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.
Liras tried to remain at his workbench and finish the customer's wings, but the pain grew too much.More info »
By Caroline M. Yoachim, from Issue #179 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.Horimachi's own tattoos were from before the war, when black ink was made of soot instead of faery blood.More info »
By Kate Alice Marshall, from Issue #178 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Mattar comes to the house of Anaharesh in search of a single word; a word to end a war.More info »
By Karalynn Lee, from Issue #177 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
The sparrow had too diminutive a mind to realize it could serve you longer by taking time to eat and sleep.More info »
By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #176 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.“Where are all the people?” she asked. I neighed, unsure. Why would they hide in their caves when two strangers appeared?More info »
By Michael J. DeLuca, from Issue #176 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.The cat departs from the moonbeam, flicking its tails.
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By Kay Chronister, from Issue #175 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Ana thought the land of the dead would be empty, but it is full to bursting.More info »
By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #174 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The Drought Guard had sent twelve-and-twelve of their own after me, which might have held numerological significance if I still cared about such things.More info »
By Bill Powell, from Issue #173 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
A 2016 Parsec Award Finalist for Best Speculative Fiction Story: Large Cast.
A special large-cast reading in honor of our 150th episode, featuring the narratorial talents of Michael J. DeLuca, Tina Connolly, and Bill Powell.
WHITLOCK: (aside) An identical response! Perhaps free will is a mere illusion. On the other hand, she's an automaton.More info »
By Erin Cashier, from Issue #172 - Special Weird Western Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
A special Weird Western podcast.
John Halpern knew it should be a heavy weight on his conscience, to wake up and know that he was going to kill a thing that used to be a man.More info »
By Saladin Ahmed, from Issue #172 - Special Weird Western Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.So when Mister Hadj said that a stone in the road told him where we'd find Parson Lucifer, I didn’t doubt it.
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By Spencer Ellsworth, from Issue #171 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The assassin, the mother, and the child fled into the desert.More info »
By Erin Cashier, from Issue #171 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.I'd had a name, a long time ago. But no one but me remembered it.
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By Sylvia Anna Hivén, from Issue #170 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Except one day, Cassie ain't telling me what will vanish. She tells me something's coming.More info »
By Carrie Vaughn, from Issue #169 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.
We wait until there is only the sound of blowing wind and the cry of a jackdaw. I nod, Elu nods back.More info »
By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #169 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.His eyes, shining yellow in the night, were the ones I remembered from the day I had lost my heart.
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By Alyc Helms, from Issue #168 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Tutti loves only three things in this world, and he loves them well: his birds, his liquor, and Gemma, the junkmonger who keeps the stall next to his barrel.More info »
By Rich Larson, from Issue #167 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
“How disappointing I must seem,” he said at last. “I didn’t know I’d become a folk figure. I would have grown a great beard.”More info »
By Tamara Vardomskaya, from Issue #166 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.I lay on the drowned grand piano, naked, my head that of a chess-horse, my hands and feet stumps oozing black-green blood onto the keys.More info »
By Marie Brennan, from Issue #166 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.If Tolyat wanted to see the whole of Driftwood at once, he had to get close to the Crush.
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By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #165 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.I wanted to ask her more questions, about the way the world was made, about death and dreams, but did not want to know the answers.More info »
By Justin Howe, from Issue #165 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.“If it was the last skin you wore,” he said, “would you take it?”
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By James Morrow, from Issue #164 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by T.D. Edge.Chloe’s first instinct was to hustle Willy and Annie out of the zoo, lest they learn prematurely there was such a thing as atheism.More info »
By Geoffrey Maloney, from Issue #164 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the narrator, T.D. Edge.They couldn't be serious, Morrow thought...but then the Major allowed the squid to slip from his fingers and into his mouth.
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By Sam J. Miller, from Issue #163 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The metalman had always been behind her, its steel hooks eager to split her open, for as far back as she could remember.More info »
By Rajan Khanna, from Issue #163 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.I lift the Gorgon’s head and remember my mother as she lay dying in her bed.
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By T.D. Edge, from Issue #162 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.There's nothing better than low-ranking, fad-following royalty for extinguishing any last desire to even bother fighting for one's life against other wizards in the Ring.
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By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #161 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.Things got worse when they started to have their flush of post-war babies and wanted us back out again.
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By Peter Hickman, from Issue #160 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I knew the streets. I were a quick strike and a wary eye, but this...More info »
By David Tallerman, from Issue #160 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by narrator John Meagher.The target was thrashing hard enough that the smooth handles of the garrote were biting into Otranto's palms.
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By Brynn MacNab, from Issue #159 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
Something sat in the rugmaker's belly, small and solid and chill, and her husband's songs ceased to warm it.More info »
By Matthew Kressel, from Issue #159 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.“Do you question me, Mielbok, the Billion-Toothed Maggot?”
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By Gwendolyn Clare, from Issue #158 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.The body's exposed intestines writhed with pale-pink caterpillars, Corpsewing larvae, a sight Yinghua found at once repulsive and fascinating.More info »
By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #157, Sixth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Read by Kate Baker of Clarkesworld Magazine.
...where she might well always be the jumped-up little Annamite to other Frenchmen—but what does it matter, if she has Raoul's love?More info »
By Richard Parks, from Issue #157, Sixth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I considered what he had said now as I regarded the rain spirit. “I believe that there’s something the headman isn’t telling us.”More info »
By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #158 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.But we—we are alive, in a way that no other making will be.
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By Angela Ambroz, from Issue #156 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.The Lord Buddha spoke to me that night. He said to take my hatchet, dust it off, and get to those towns and saloons out there. Those damnable pits of damnation.More info »
By M. Bennardo, from Issue #156 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.All day, No. 17596 waited, but the guards never came.
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By Tony Pi, from Issue #155 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
A 2015 Parsec Award Finalist for Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast.
Narrated by John Meagher.
My soul sunk beneath the platform planks and into a sturdy ox figurine with wisps of cooled caramel for its horns.More info »
By Kathryn Allen, from Issue #155 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by author Marie Brennan.I take my time undressing her, half-expecting for The Marshal to come calling.
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By Michael Haynes, from Issue #154 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I hesitate, but only for a second. Surely Rose would forgive me.More info »
By Catherine S. Perdue, from Issue #154 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by audiobook narrator John Meagher.I am Boon. I lead my pack.
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By Fran Wilde, from Issue #153 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I could not answer her. I had no memory of doing anything besides preparing the topaz.More info »
By Kenneth Mark Hoover, from Issue #153 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.Her words got me to thinking about my past. What there was to remember.
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By Tina Connolly, from Issue #152 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author.I was looking into his ankle, then there was a frightening jerk on my tail and I was peering into his long wide face.
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By Chris Willrich, from Issue #151 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by Hugo Award-winning editor Lou Anders."And yet Now is upon us," said Tvarn Wind-Tamer. "For the Perfection is moving. Look."
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By Oliver Buckram, from Issue #150 - Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Norm Sherman of The Drabblecast.
I scan the opposite shore of the wide river for any sign of human activity, for the people who sent the boat.More info »
By Vylar Kaftan, from Issue #149 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Their bodies returned to the tar pit, the fierce source of his power; and this was the work of my hated lord and master.More info »
By M. Bennardo, from Issue #148 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
From three blocks away, Tom Brown could hear the big bass drum from the Women's Christian Temperance Union band as they thundered down Second Avenue.More info »
By E. Catherine Tobler, from Issue #147 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Ann Leckie.With eyes closed, there is a singular heartbeat, a solitary pulse, and when we stretch, there is no we.More info »
By Nicole M. Taylor, from Issue #146 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The 300th story to appear in BCS!
It was a frightening, lovely thing; the way the great lens refracted the firelight and sent it out over the water.More info »
By Raphael Ordoñez, from Issue #145 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Read by Michael J. DeLuca.
Blood is salt, like seawater; the heart moves an ocean in miniature.More info »
By Benjanun Sriduangkaew, from Issue #144 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.Tomorrow she will confront; tomorrow she will demand. In this house she is no one’s lesser.More info »
By Seth Dickinson, from Issue #143 - Science-Fantasy Month 2 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
A strange impulse, an alien need: she devours all that she knows, and knows all that she devours.More info »
By Rachel Sobel, from Issue #143 - Science-Fantasy Month 2 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.The graceful architecture of this place has haunted her dreams since the first years of her training.More info »
By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #142 - Science-Fantasy Month 2 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.
She would have run, but her legs betrayed her—a contraction, locking her in place, as frozen as the baby within her womb.More info »
By Ann Chatham, from Issue #141 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.
I stared at him, feeling the dirt of travel and the coarse fabric of the borrowed peasant’s wools against my skin.More info »
By Dean Wells, from Issue #140 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The iterations of his death resound about him like the echoes of a minor chord.More info »
By Nathaniel Lee, from Issue #139 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I missed all the excitement the day the trains walked away.More info »
By A.E. Decker, from Issue #138 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The washed-out sky and black indifferent trees blur as I cough out the fire within me.More info »
By C.T. Hutt, from Issue #137 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The Shiner Man’s covered wagon walked across the desert on six metal legs.More info »
By Caleb Wilson, from Issue #134 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.The three cousins walked through a tunnel low enough that their head leaves brushed and bent on the ceiling.More info »
By Gemma Files, from Issue #133 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Jenkins tipped his hat to her prediction, sending up a brief sketch of a prayer himself—perhaps useful, perhaps not, depending on who might be listening—that the next few days wouldn't disprove it.More info »
By Adam Callaway, from Issue #132 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Tomai took his wife’s fragile hand in his own. He felt like if he held it even as if it were a child’s, the bones would snap like pine dowels.More info »
By M. Bennardo, from Issue #131, Fifth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Read by Rajan Khanna.
As Constant Sterry slipped exhausted from his saddle, the last he saw was that same figure approaching, outstretched hands sheathed in thin black gloves with lacework as fine as any to be found.More info »
By Raphael Ordoñez, from Issue #130 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Dan Rabarts."Then leave this place forever!" Maugreth cried. "Forget this goblin in his caves. Leave the monsters to their own."More info »
By David Tallerman, from Issue #129 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by John Meagher. Named a Top Pick of the month in the September 2013 episode of the Synthetic Voices podcast.
The target was thrashing hard enough that the smooth handles of the garrote were biting into Otranto's palms.More info »
By Greg Kurzawa, from Issue #128 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Ethan looked at the sepia photograph again. A man? No, it was anything but.More info »
By Justin Howe, from Issue #127 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Rajan Khanna.The trick’s to stay away so long no one remembers the hurt from how you left. More info »
By Barbara A. Barnett, from Issue #126 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.The flickers of firelight skipped over the ground and tickled Adda's feet, even through her heavy boots.More info »
By M. Bennardo, from Issue #123 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Read by Michael J. DeLuca. Named a Top Pick of the month in the June 2013 episode of the Synthetic Voices podcast.
All day, No. 17596 waited, but the guards never came.More info »
By Jeff Isacksen, from Issue #122 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
It has to be true, because a year without her is a year without myself.More info »
By Alex Dally MacFarlane, from Issue #121 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.
“Come back and sing with me!” the ghost calls at her back.More info »
By Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald, from Issue #120 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by T.D. Edge.
“Professor Haversham!” I exclaimed. “What is the meaning of this vulgar display?”More info »
By Michael Haynes, from Issue #119 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
"But then why let him live? You had blades at his neck for half an hour, no doubt."More info »
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #118 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Things got worse when they started to have their flush of post-war babies and wanted us back out again.More info »
By Tori Truslow, from Issue #117 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
A 2013 Parsec Award Finalist for Best Speculative Fiction Story: Large Cast.
A special reading to celebrate this 100th episode of the BCS Audio Fiction Podcast, read by Rajan Khanna, Folly Blaine, Michael J. DeLuca, and Tina Connolly.
"Child of fish and ghost," said Bue. "What could be quicker?"More info »
By A.B. Treadwell, from Issue #116 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I realized in that moment that even my name is a lie.More info »
By Adam Callaway, from Issue #115 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The need to flee--flee the city, the books, the nightmares, the thirst--came over me; to strike back into the desert and come back with the fortune I had promised Sessina so many years ago.More info »
By Raphael Ordoñez, from Issue #114 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.They slipped through a gap in the fence. It was like leaving an enchanted circle. More info »
By Christian K. Martinez, from Issue #113 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Mandate wondered if there would be any humans left to bury in a year.More info »
By John E.O. Stevens, from Issue #112 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I raised the cairnskill feather, looked at the peregrinator through it. He became that shimmer again, indistinct but present.More info »
By Jamie Lackey, from Issue #111 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Folly Blaine.
“Why in the world do you want to be a magician, if that’s the life they lead?” he asked me after one particularly bloodcurdling story about an angry mother.More info »
By Damien Walters Grintalis, from Issue #108 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
By the time they snap her fifth finger, she doesn't have the strength to struggle anymore.More info »
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #106 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Tina Connolly.Safy laughed despite herself. "Unnatural? Of course I am."More info »
By Seth Dickinson, from Issue #105, Fourth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
It should be spring, the crows' dead eyes protest. It should be spring.More info »
By Marie Brennan, from Issue #104 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Rajan Khanna.
If Tolyat wanted to see the whole of Driftwood at once, he had to get close to the Crush.More info »
By Dean Wells, from Issue #103 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by T.D. Edge.Only then did I discover two alarming facts about my own person: I was naked beneath the scratchy blanket, and my wrists and ankles were bound in chains.More info »
By Peter Darbyshire, from Issue #102 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The angel Azrael surveyed the remains of the town. The place was as dead as the horse he sat on. More info »
By Christie Yant, from Issue #101 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I had hoped to tell you the first story in the summers to come. It is my sorrowful task to tell you all three, instead.More info »
By Chris Willrich, from Issue #100 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Michael J. DeLuca.
"And yet Now is upon us," said Tvarn Wind-Tamer. "For the Perfection is moving. Look."More info »
By Tina Connolly, from Issue #97 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by the author.
I was looking into his ankle, then there was a frightening jerk on my tail and I was peering into his long wide face.More info »
By Adam Callaway, from Issue #96 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
You ask how I’m writing this? I found a piece of broken crystal and am scratching the letters into my calf.More info »
By Ann Chatham, from Issue #95 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I was afraid to say anything, but my mouth said, “please don’t kill her” without making any sound.More info »
By Christian K. Martinez, from Issue #94 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
There hadn't been a killing in years, though. We'd forgotten.More info »
By Tom Crosshill, from Issue #93 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
No one decided anyone's fate that day. The champions were too evenly matched.More info »
By Grace Seybold, from Issue #92 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
She had dreamed of being a weaver, and a fisher, and a soldier, and many different wives, but the life of a seeker of knowledge had never come to her yet.More info »
By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #91, Science-Fantasy Month of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Special Episode for BCS Science-Fantasy Month
She cursed herself for freezing up and ruminating when the proper response was to react.More info »
By Chris Willrich, from Issue #90, Science-Fantasy Month of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Special Episode for BCS Science-Fantasy Month, read by Cat Rambo.
Nicolai was three years dead when I lighted to EZ Aquarii to forget him. Naturally he came along too.More info »
By Justin Howe, from Issue #89 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
“You’re not human.” Yengec could barely keep his voice steady. “You’re one of them. A paramental.”More info »
By Rajan Khanna, from Issue #88 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I lift the Gorgon’s head and remember my mother as she lay dying in her bed.More info »
By E. Catherine Tobler, from Issue #87 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
My fingers sought the memory of a scarf around my throat, then slid down to Sun Lin's thin shoulder.More info »
By Seth Dickinson, from Issue #86 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Editor’s Note, Nov. 2014: Beware! If you want to avoid spoilers for The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth’s Fall 2015 debut novel, don’t listen to this story yet; it spoils everything!
Baru Cormorant sorts her existence left and right, so that she can forget the proper things by turning.More info »
By Stephen Case, from Issue #85 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
...before the tapping of a beak upon the glass calls your guards as well.More info »
By Dean Wells, from Issue #82 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The silent commands were with her all the time now, haunting and familiar.More info »
By J.S. Bangs, from Issue #81 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The brand Adultery will scar her pretty cheeks, and our son will wear the Bastard brand his whole life. But those aren't the brands I'm worried about.More info »
By Garth Upshaw, from Issue #79, Third Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Aidan pulled away from my hand. I could feel his finger bones slip and shift out of place.More info »
By Heather Clitheroe, from Issue #78 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Well, what was I supposed to do? I wished harder. I couldn't just stop.More info »
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #77 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
One can scarcely thank a man for promising to thrash one's best friend in a duel.More info »
By Ferrett Steinmetz, from Issue #76 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Father guides my hand to the ruin of his belly. My fingers sink into the wound, touching something moist and pulsing—More info »
By Marko Kloos, from Issue #75 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Her smile made him feel like someone other than pudgy Wilhelm from the paper store.More info »
By Adam Callaway, from Issue #74 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Layers of parchment enclosed the room. Walls yellowed and tearing. Ceiling shedding like a lizard.More info »
By Michael J. DeLuca, from Issue #71 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The cat departs from the moonbeam, flicking its tails.More info »
By Wendy N. Wagner, from Issue #70 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Most people didn't bother replacing teeth; they all went wicker-and-cogwork as young as they could.More info »
By Genevieve Valentine, from Issue #69 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
One night, I tried to sneak into the tent. Mistake.More info »
By Heather Fawcett, from Issue #68 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I will fashion a dagger worthy of his jeweled throat.More info »
By Cat Rambo, from Issue #67 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Three years after her death, she still labored in his service.More info »
By Geoffrey Maloney, from Issue #66 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Read by T.D. Edge.
They couldn't be serious, Morrow thought...but then the Major allowed the squid to slip from his fingers and into his mouth.More info »
By Garth Upshaw, from Issue #65 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I worried about the detector. Kept my attention up for the slightest tingle of accidental particle ingestion.More info »
By Richard Parks, from Issue #64 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Whether I was drunk or sober, Princess Teiko haunted my dreams.More info »
By Kris Dikeman, from Issue #63 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The place where Ameos should stand is taken by another boy. We are fewer now.More info »
By Corie Ralston, from Issue #62 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Mama holds us close, long roots circled deep.More info »
By Marie Brennan, from Issue #61 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Read by T.D. Edge.
The alternative to boredom is remembrance. And that, he avoids at all costs.More info »
By David G. Blake, from Issue #60 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Garran woke with a scream and scurried on all fours to the corner of the sanctuary to vomit. He remembered everything.More info »
By Matthew Kressel, from Issue #59 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
“Do you question me, Mielbok, the Billion-Toothed Maggot?”More info »
By Genevieve Valentine, from Issue #56 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
She and I made bread every day knowing that if the grain didn't ripen, we were next in line to be cut down.More info »
By Steve Rasnic Tem, from Issue #55 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Abe experienced the odd sensation of Madame Oljon inside his head aligning her face with his, pushing eyes and lips forward past his own.More info »
By Rosamund Hodge, from Issue #54 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Read by T.D. Edge.
As with Papa, she knew Thomas was gone and felt no regret, for she had changed equally.More info »
By Sarah L. Edwards, from Issue #53, Second Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Salt! It tasted of salt as much as the sardines did, but with some wilder flavor, too.More info »
By Liz Coleman, from Issue #52 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Wind tore through the cave as I washed my silken face and hung it to dry.More info »
By Marie Brennan, from Issue #51 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Read by T.D. Edge
Magrat was right. This man stood at the heart of it.More info »
By Erin Cashier, from Issue #50 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Guess it's just you and me now, spider.More info »
By Vylar Kaftan, from Issue #49 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I left him there, stacking dirty straw in the brazier to honor a dead goddess.More info »
By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #46 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
But we—we are alive, in a way that no other making will be.More info »
By Marie Brennan, from Issue #45 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
“Nothing in Driftwood is free. What do you want?”More info »
By Saladin Ahmed, from Issue #44 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
So when Mister Hadj said that a stone in the road told him where we'd find Parson Lucifer, I didn’t doubt it.More info »
By Sarah L. Edwards, from Issue #43 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I began the hand-signs again, still doubting they could be understood yet desperate not to lose that other whose thought I’d felt.More info »
By Adam Heine, from Issue #42 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The more he asked, the more chary I got that he’d figure out what I was doing--that one of his marks was my little girl.More info »
By Tom Crosshill, from Issue #41 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Four crouched alone on her platform, unwatched, abandoned.More info »
By Kathryn Allen, from Issue #40 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I take my time undressing her, half-expecting for The Marshal to come calling.More info »
By Alys Sterling, from Issue #39 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
What horror could I feel, I who had counted more bizarre monstrosities among my friends?More info »
By Catherine Mintz, from Issue #38 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The pond was a bathing pool, long ago. You can still see pictures in stone, under the water and scum.More info »
By Rodello Santos, from Issue #37 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Her tongue was a grave-worm tunneling into me, befouling me.More info »
By Paul Daly, from Issue #36 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
It roars, shuddering the stone, and I imagine three thousand corpse voices in shrieking harmony.More info »
By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #35 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
When she spoke, her voice stopped him, as surely as a knife drawn across his throat.More info »
By Dru Pagliassotti, from Issue #34 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Read by T.D. Edge
We figured we’d get rich once corpses became rare and valuable resources again.More info »
By Sarah L. Edwards, from Issue #33 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The mountain was listening very closely, watching the wind blow faint tendrils of her hair, catching the warmth of her breath.More info »
By Rachel Swirsky, from Issue #30 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Lady Percivalia sat motionless for as long as she could so that she could savor the thrill.More info »
By Sara M. Harvey, from Issue #29 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Dollies were the chore of my life: winding them, mending gears, and keeping good care of their pricier parts which pleasured the men.More info »
By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #28 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Pirates of the highest tier raided poetry itself.More info »
By Justin Howe, from Issue #27, First Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
“If it was the last skin you wore,” he said, “would you take it?”More info »
By Erin Cashier, from Issue #26 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I wake to find another finger gone.More info »
By Christopher Green, from Issue #25 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I lock both Father and the night away.More info »
By Emily M. Z. Carlyle, from Issue #24 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
My hands were reading the elaborate carvings on the fireplace when I heard two halting footsteps behind me.More info »
By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #23 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
His eyes, shining yellow in the night, were the ones I remembered from the day I had lost my heart.More info »
By Harry R. Campion, from Issue #22 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
For a second or two Creeper just strained against our hold, pale eyes locked and empty on the horizon.More info »
By James Lecky, from Issue #21 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I am my father’s son, poisoned by the same rituals that have turned his flesh to rock.More info »
By Richard Parks, from Issue #20 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I know it was wrong of me to savor the look of fear on Kenji's face, but some temptations are not to be resisted.More info »
By Kenneth Mark Hoover, from Issue #19 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Her words got me to thinking about my past. What there was to remember.More info »
By T.D. Edge, from Issue #18 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
There's nothing better than low-ranking, fad-following royalty for extinguishing any last desire to even bother fighting for one's life against other wizards in the Ring.More info »
By Brian Dolton, from Issue #17 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
She was beautiful. But it was forbidden, in the eyes of the Tetharan.More info »
By Marie Brennan, from Issue #16 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
She would probably die before her world did.More info »
By Grace Seybold, from Issue #15 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
We are borne up by fate like leaves on the wind, and sometimes carried home.More info »
By Jonathan Wood, from Issue #14 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I thought at first my hands would shake. But when I reach to make the incisions, they are calm.More info »
By Erin Cashier, from Issue #13 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I'd had a name, a long time ago. But no one but me remembered it.More info »
By Michael J. DeLuca, from Issue #12 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Boreas crushed the keys in his palm to silence them.More info »
By Tina Connolly, from Issue #11 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Once a child of the holy rich; now the pawn of a priest?More info »
By Margaret Ronald, from Issue #10 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
He thought of a man strapped to a table, whispering his secret.More info »
By K.C. Shaw, from Issue #9 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I remember seeing a patch of sun-scorched grass become a lion watching me with amber eyes.More info »
By Catherine S. Perdue, from Issue #8 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I am Boon. I lead my pack.More info »
By Sarah L. Edwards, from Issue #6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Would this querulous magician's insinuations distract my master from slaying our vile prey?More info »
By Marie Brennan, from Issue #5 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
She is the voice of the king, until he cannot speak for himself.More info »
By David D. Levine, from Issue #4 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
She was glad of the darkness, because it meant the two men could not see her tremble.More info »
By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
A city, a librarian, a sentinel, and a silhouette.More info »