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BCS 345: The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King
Thu, 03 Apr 2025 04:00:51 +0000
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.BCS 344: Tea for Truth, Mango for Memory
Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:00:55 +0000
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.BCS 343: Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 05:00:06 +0000
By Nne Ukwu & 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.Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:00:42 +0000
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.Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:00:59 +0000
By Thomas Bales, from Issue #421 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
They say that if I stop speaking, the sun will not rise.BCS 340: Three Drops in the River
Thu, 17 Oct 2024 04:00:44 +0000
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.BCS 338: Nine Tenths of the Law
Thu, 03 Oct 2024 04:00:20 +0000
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.BCS 339: Black Wine From the Slopes of Dawn
Thu, 03 Oct 2024 04:00:20 +0000
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.BCS 337: After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 04:00:23 +0000
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.BCS 335: Conversation with a Dragon
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 04:00:47 +0000
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.”BCS 336: At the Stopping Place
Thu, 22 Aug 2024 04:00:47 +0000
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.Thu, 11 Jul 2024 04:00:42 +0000
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.Thu, 13 Jun 2024 04:00:23 +0000
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.BCS 332: Gods and Monsters and Brothers
Thu, 16 May 2024 04:00:21 +0000
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.BCS 331: A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places
Thu, 02 May 2024 04:00:28 +0000
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.Thu, 18 Apr 2024 04:00:42 +0000
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.Thu, 04 Apr 2024 04:00:13 +0000
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."Thu, 21 Mar 2024 04:00:39 +0000
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.Thu, 22 Feb 2024 05:00:08 +0000
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.BCS 326: The Rug-Maker and the Wonder Collector
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 05:00:34 +0000
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.Thu, 08 Feb 2024 05:00:34 +0000
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?Thu, 11 Jan 2024 05:00:42 +0000
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.BCS 323: What Will Bring You Home
Thu, 30 Nov 2023 05:00:55 +0000
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.BCS 322: Something That Has Never Touched the Ground
Thu, 02 Nov 2023 04:00:07 +0000
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.BCS 321: The Four Gifts of Empress Lessa
Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:00:36 +0000
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.BCS 320: The Light of Setting Suns
Thu, 05 Oct 2023 04:00:16 +0000
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.BCS 319: Where the River Comes From
Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:00:02 +0000
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.BCS 318: Holding Back the Darkness
Thu, 07 Sep 2023 04:00:40 +0000
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.BCS 317: Interlude: Shelter From the Storm
Thu, 24 Aug 2023 04:00:13 +0000
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.”BCS 316: Merciful Even to Scorpions
Thu, 27 Jul 2023 04:00:26 +0000
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.Thu, 29 Jun 2023 04:00:39 +0000
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.BCS 314: Eleanora of the Bones
Thu, 01 Jun 2023 04:00:02 +0000
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.BCS 313: The Whisper of That Blood
Thu, 18 May 2023 04:00:02 +0000
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.BCS 312: The Cuckoo of Vrežna Mountain
Thu, 20 Apr 2023 04:00:56 +0000
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.Thu, 23 Mar 2023 04:00:29 +0000
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.BCS 310: The Changeling and the Child
Thu, 09 Mar 2023 05:00:09 +0000
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?BCS 309: Your Great Mother Across the Salt Sea
Thu, 23 Feb 2023 05:00:49 +0000
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.Thu, 09 Feb 2023 05:00:36 +0000
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.BCS 307: Constant Ivan and Clever Natalya
Thu, 12 Jan 2023 05:00:50 +0000
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.BCS 306: Half-Spent Was the Night
Thu, 15 Dec 2022 05:00:25 +0000
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?”Thu, 08 Dec 2022 05:00:55 +0000
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.BCS 304: He Stays Among the Commots
Thu, 01 Dec 2022 05:00:55 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 041: A Nickel For The Burlap Man
Thu, 01 Dec 2022 05:00:55 +0000
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.
BCS Audio Vault 040: Portrait of the Artist
Thu, 17 Nov 2022 05:00:32 +0000
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.
BCS Audio Vault 039: The Thought That Counts
Thu, 03 Nov 2022 04:00:00 +0000
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.
Thu, 13 Oct 2022 04:00:19 +0000
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.BCS 302: Fire and Brimstone in the Twin Cities
Thu, 06 Oct 2022 04:00:19 +0000
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.BCS 300: Five Aspects of River and Sky
Thu, 22 Sep 2022 04:00:44 +0000
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?Thu, 22 Sep 2022 04:00:44 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 038: A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power
Thu, 08 Sep 2022 04:00:26 +0000
By R.B. Lemberg, from Issue #364 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, explaining elements of the Birdverse world and culture and characters that appear in the novella and how one of the characters connects with the new Birdverse novel The Unbalancing.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.
BCS 299: Imagine a Thief with Golden Fire in Their Voice
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 04:00:24 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 037: What the River Brings, and What It Takes Away
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 04:00:01 +0000
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.
BCS 298: How to Be a True Woman While Piloting a Steam-Engine Balloon
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 04:00:45 +0000
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.BCS 297: Different Kinds of Thorn
Thu, 16 Jun 2022 04:00:09 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 036: Two Bodies in Basting Stitch
Thu, 02 Jun 2022 04:00:52 +0000
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.It burns like dust in Sere’s eyes to hear Tashet take her name back, to keep for herself.
BCS 296: I Will Sing Your White Bones Home
Thu, 19 May 2022 04:00:30 +0000
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.BCS 295: The Mountains of Another World, Where Eagles May Fly Free
Thu, 05 May 2022 04:00:07 +0000
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.Thu, 21 Apr 2022 04:00:38 +0000
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.BCS 293: Ten Fruits and Other Memories of Rialynas
Thu, 07 Apr 2022 04:00:43 +0000
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.Thu, 24 Mar 2022 04:00:36 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 035: The Angel Azrael Delivers Small Mercies
Thu, 10 Mar 2022 05:00:07 +0000
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.
BCS 291: A Nickel For The Burlap Man
Thu, 10 Mar 2022 05:00:07 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 034: Gennesaret
Thu, 03 Mar 2022 05:00:57 +0000
By Phoenix Alexander, from Issue #350 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 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 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."
BCS 290: At the Foot of the Dragon Stair
Thu, 24 Feb 2022 05:00:57 +0000
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.Thu, 10 Feb 2022 05:00:52 +0000
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.Thu, 27 Jan 2022 05:00:52 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 033: The Three Feats of Agani
Thu, 13 Jan 2022 05:00:48 +0000
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.
Sat, 01 Jan 2022 05:00:06 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 032: As Tight As Any Knot
Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:00:30 +0000
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, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson.Ondrakja chose her approach and her moment with care.
BCS Audio Vault 031: Undercurrents
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 05:00:09 +0000
By Charles Payseur, from Issue #343 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, 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.
BCS Audio Vault 030: Rivers Run Free
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 05:00:54 +0000
By Charles Payseur, from Issue #342 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Introduced by the author, in an interview conducted and engineered by M.K. Hobson, explaining the story’s element that oppression can link people together and can tear people apart.We ride stolen horses over the choked earth.
Thu, 04 Nov 2021 04:00:54 +0000
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.Thu, 28 Oct 2021 04:00:33 +0000
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!
BCS 285: The Last Days of Summer in the City of Olives
Thu, 21 Oct 2021 04:00:33 +0000
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?"BCS Audio Vault 028: The Mermaid Astronaut
Fri, 08 Oct 2021 04:00:43 +0000
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.
Thu, 07 Oct 2021 04:00:43 +0000
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.BCS 283: In Case You’re the One to Devour a Star
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 04:00:54 +0000
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.BCS 282: The Shape of Wings and Feathers
Thu, 09 Sep 2021 04:00:38 +0000
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.BCS 281: For Rain Is To Wet and Fire To Burn
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 04:00:15 +0000
By Robert Minto, from Issue #337 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The angels plunged into the orange glowing mouth of my kiln.BCS 280: A Flower Cannot Love the Hand
Thu, 17 Jun 2021 04:00:09 +0000
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.Thu, 03 Jun 2021 04:00:39 +0000
By Tania Fordwalker, from Issue #331 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
Shon knows silence well.BCS 278: Hassan the Executioner Walks Out of Jawasar for the Last Time
Thu, 20 May 2021 04:00:12 +0000
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.Thu, 06 May 2021 04:00:29 +0000
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.BCS 276: A Stranger Goes Ashore
Thu, 22 Apr 2021 04:00:15 +0000
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.BCS 275: The Captain and the Quartermaster
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 04:00:22 +0000
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.BCS 274: Dead at the Feet of a God
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 05:00:08 +0000
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.BCS 273: When Your Being Here is Gentler Than Your Absence Hard
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 05:00:14 +0000
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.Thu, 28 Jan 2021 05:00:27 +0000
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.Fri, 01 Jan 2021 05:00:40 +0000
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.Fri, 01 Jan 2021 05:00:40 +0000
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.BCS 269: The Garden Where No One Ever Goes
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 05:00:19 +0000
By P H Lee, from Issue #318 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Summer Fletcher.
I meet you in the middle of the night in the garden where no one goes.BCS 268: A Land of Blood and Snow
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 05:00:35 +0000
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.BCS 267: The Heart That Saves You May Be Your Own
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 04:00:10 +0000
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.Thu, 24 Sep 2020 04:00:10 +0000
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.BCS 265: Deep in the Drift, Spinning
Thu, 10 Sep 2020 04:00:40 +0000
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.BCS 264: Doorway, Smile, Kiss, Fox
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 04:00:19 +0000
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.BCS 263: Seven Dreams of a Valley
Thu, 02 Jul 2020 04:00:36 +0000
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.BCS 262: The Augur and the Girl Left at His Door
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 04:00:17 +0000
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.Thu, 04 Jun 2020 04:00:58 +0000
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.BCS 260: The Honey of the World and the Queen of Crows
Thu, 21 May 2020 04:00:35 +0000
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.BCS 259: Fox Red, Life Red, Teeth Like Snow
Thu, 07 May 2020 04:00:50 +0000
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.BCS 258: Who Goes Against a Waste of Waters
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 04:00:20 +0000
By Eleanna Castroianni, from Issue #302 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
We are the only ones left to herd the ghost-sheep.BCS 257: Her Cage of Root and Bone
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 04:00:09 +0000
By Kali Wallace, from Issue #301 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.We do not discuss, Nell and I.Thu, 26 Mar 2020 04:00:04 +0000
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.Thu, 12 Mar 2020 04:00:50 +0000
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.BCS 254: The Mermaid Astronaut
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 05:00:29 +0000
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.BCS 253: John Simnel’s First Goshawk
Thu, 13 Feb 2020 05:00:09 +0000
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.BCS 252: Forgive Me, My Love, for the Ice and the Sea
Thu, 30 Jan 2020 05:00:49 +0000
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.BCS 251: Every Tiny Tooth and Claw (or: Letters from the First Month of the New Directorate)
Thu, 16 Jan 2020 05:00:30 +0000
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!BCS 250: These Wondrous Sweets
Thu, 02 Jan 2020 05:00:12 +0000
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.BCS 249: The Gods Come to Sredna
Thu, 07 Nov 2019 05:00:21 +0000
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.BCS 248: The Butcher, the Baker
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 04:00:05 +0000
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.”BCS 247: The Edges of the World
Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:00:47 +0000
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.Thu, 03 Oct 2019 04:00:37 +0000
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.BCS 245: Portrait Of The Artist
Thu, 26 Sep 2019 04:00:37 +0000
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.BCS 244: The Silent Flowers of the Magician’s Garden
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 04:00:13 +0000
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.BCS 243: A Song for the Leadwood Tree
Thu, 29 Aug 2019 04:00:45 +0000
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.BCS 242: What the River Brings, and What It Takes Away
Thu, 04 Jul 2019 04:00:56 +0000
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.Thu, 20 Jun 2019 04:00:37 +0000
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.”Thu, 06 Jun 2019 04:00:47 +0000
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?Thu, 23 May 2019 04:00:17 +0000
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.BCS 238: The Bone Flute Quartet
Thu, 09 May 2019 04:00:47 +0000
By KJ 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.BCS 237: Fury at the Crossroads
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 04:00:17 +0000
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.Thu, 11 Apr 2019 04:00:26 +0000
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.Thu, 28 Mar 2019 04:00:27 +0000
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.Thu, 14 Mar 2019 04:00:49 +0000
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.BCS 233: When Sirens Sing of Roses and of Delegated Power
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 05:00:00 +0000
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.BCS 232: Adrianna in Pomegranate
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 05:00:22 +0000
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.BCS 231: To Stab with a Rose, to Love with a Knife
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 05:00:27 +0000
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.BCS 230: The Deepest Notes of the Harp and Drum
Thu, 17 Jan 2019 05:00:08 +0000
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.BCS 229: The Blighted Godling of Company Town H
Thu, 03 Jan 2019 05:00:41 +0000
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.BCS 228: Feral Attachments at Kulle Bland Bergen
Thu, 22 Nov 2018 05:00:41 +0000
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.BCS 227: In the Ground, Before the Freeze
Thu, 08 Nov 2018 05:00:53 +0000
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.BCS 226: The Oracle and the Sea
Thu, 25 Oct 2018 04:00:50 +0000
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.BCS 225: Magic Potion Behind-the-Mountains
Thu, 11 Oct 2018 04:00:08 +0000
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.Thu, 27 Sep 2018 04:00:43 +0000
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.Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:00:01 +0000
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.Thu, 30 Aug 2018 04:00:02 +0000
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.”Thu, 05 Jul 2018 04:00:04 +0000
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.BCS 220: The Weaver and the Snake
Thu, 07 Jun 2018 04:00:15 +0000
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.BCS 219: The Wild Ride of the Untamed Stars
Thu, 24 May 2018 04:00:52 +0000
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."BCS 218: The Examination Cloth
Thu, 10 May 2018 04:00:24 +0000
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...BCS 217: An Account of the Madness of the Magistrate, Chengdhu Village
Thu, 03 May 2018 04:00:31 +0000
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.BCS 216: The Thought That Counts
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 04:00:31 +0000
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.Thu, 12 Apr 2018 04:00:14 +0000
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...BCS 214: She Who Hungers, She Who Waits
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 04:00:22 +0000
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.BCS 213: Braving the Morrow Candle’s Wane
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 04:00:59 +0000
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.Thu, 01 Mar 2018 04:00:10 +0000
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."Thu, 15 Feb 2018 04:00:11 +0000
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.BCS 210: The Starship and the Temple Cat
Thu, 01 Feb 2018 04:00:28 +0000
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.BCS 209: Benefactors of Silence
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:00:31 +0000
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.BCS 208: Suite for Accompanied Cello
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 04:00:44 +0000
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.BCS 207: The Mouth of the Oyster
Tue, 21 Nov 2017 04:00:12 +0000
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.Thu, 09 Nov 2017 04:00:48 +0000
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.Thu, 26 Oct 2017 04:00:24 +0000
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."BCS 204: The Fall of the Mundaneum
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 04:00:18 +0000
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.BCS 203: On the Road to the Hell of Hungry Ghosts
Thu, 28 Sep 2017 04:00:07 +0000
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.Thu, 14 Sep 2017 04:00:36 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 027: Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 04:00:29 +0000
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.
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 04:00:17 +0000
By Charles Payseur, from Issue #230 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by Dave Thompson.
We ride stolen horses over the choked earth.BCS 200: A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 04:00:54 +0000
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.Thu, 22 Jun 2017 04:00:35 +0000
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.BCS 198: Two Bodies in Basting Stitch
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 04:00:23 +0000
By A.J. Lucy, from Issue #227 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Narrated by M.K. Hobson.
It burns like dust in Sere’s eyes to hear Tashet take her name back, to keep for herself.BCS 197: In Memory of Jianhong, Snake-Devil
Thu, 25 May 2017 04:00:31 +0000
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.”Thu, 11 May 2017 04:00:03 +0000
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.BCS 195: That Lingering Sweetness
Thu, 27 Apr 2017 04:00:34 +0000
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.BCS 194: I Have Been Drowned in Rain
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 04:00:40 +0000
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.Thu, 30 Mar 2017 04:00:00 +0000
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.”BCS 192: In the Shade of the Pixie Tree
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 04:00:23 +0000
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.Thu, 02 Mar 2017 04:00:58 +0000
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.BCS 190: Men of the Ashen Morrow
Thu, 16 Feb 2017 04:00:29 +0000
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.Thu, 02 Feb 2017 04:00:13 +0000
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.Thu, 19 Jan 2017 04:00:22 +0000
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.BCS 187: Wooden Boxes Lined with the Tongues of Doves
Thu, 05 Jan 2017 04:00:56 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 026: Everything Beneath You
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 04:00:09 +0000
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.
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 04:00:50 +0000
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.Thu, 27 Oct 2016 04:00:28 +0000
By KJ Kabza, from Issue #211 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
Everyone stopped in front of the tree, staring at its asymmetrical horror.Thu, 13 Oct 2016 04:00:43 +0000
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.Thu, 29 Sep 2016 04:00:12 +0000
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.BCS 182: Abere and the Poisoner
Thu, 15 Sep 2016 04:00:51 +0000
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.Thu, 01 Sep 2016 04:00:32 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 025: And Blow Them at the Moon
Thu, 25 Aug 2016 04:00:32 +0000
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.
BCS 180: The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles
Thu, 07 Jul 2016 04:00:16 +0000
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.Thu, 23 Jun 2016 04:00:26 +0000
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.BCS 178: The Limitless Perspective of Master Peek, or, the Luminescence of Debauchery
Thu, 09 Jun 2016 04:00:38 +0000
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.Thu, 02 Jun 2016 04:00:28 +0000
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.BCS 176: Laws of Night and Silk
Thu, 26 May 2016 04:00:28 +0000
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.Thu, 12 May 2016 04:00:02 +0000
By A.T. Greenblatt, from Issue #199 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
"This isn't your choice," said Jade. "You're dead."BCS Audio Vault 024: The Topaz Marquise
Thu, 05 May 2016 04:00:02 +0000
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.
Thu, 28 Apr 2016 04:00:40 +0000
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.Thu, 14 Apr 2016 04:00:26 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 023: No Sweeter Art
Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:00:26 +0000
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.
Thu, 31 Mar 2016 04:00:10 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 022: The Breath of War
Thu, 24 Mar 2016 04:00:58 +0000
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.
BCS 170: A Salvaging of Ghosts
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 04:00:58 +0000
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.BCS 171: The Mountains His Crown
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 04:00:58 +0000
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.BCS 169: Call and Answer, Plant and Harvest
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 04:00:39 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 021: The Book of Locked Doors
Thu, 10 Mar 2016 04:00:39 +0000
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.
Thu, 03 Mar 2016 04:00:39 +0000
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.BCS 167: And the Blessing of the Angels Came Upon Them
Thu, 18 Feb 2016 04:00:36 +0000
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.BCS 166: The Three Dancers of Gizari
Thu, 04 Feb 2016 04:00:08 +0000
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.BCS 165: Blessed are Those Who Have Seen and Do Not Believe
Thu, 21 Jan 2016 04:00:09 +0000
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.Thu, 07 Jan 2016 04:00:17 +0000
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.Thu, 24 Dec 2015 04:00:17 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 020: In the Age of Iron and Ashes
Tue, 24 Nov 2015 04:00:30 +0000
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.
Thu, 12 Nov 2015 04:00:12 +0000
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.BCS 161: Unearthly Landscape by a Lady
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 04:00:54 +0000
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.Thu, 15 Oct 2015 04:00:27 +0000
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.Thu, 08 Oct 2015 04:00:31 +0000
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.BCS 158: Moogh and the Great Trench Kraken
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 04:00:33 +0000
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."BCS 157: Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud
Thu, 03 Sep 2015 04:00:13 +0000
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.Thu, 06 Aug 2015 04:00:01 +0000
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.Thu, 23 Jul 2015 04:00:40 +0000
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.Thu, 09 Jul 2015 04:00:07 +0000
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.BCS 153: The Girl with Golden Hair
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 04:00:42 +0000
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?BCS Audio Vault 019: The Nine-Tailed Cat
Thu, 18 Jun 2015 04:00:42 +0000
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.
BCS 152: The Warriors, The Mothers, The Drowned
Thu, 11 Jun 2015 04:00:48 +0000
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.Thu, 28 May 2015 04:00:46 +0000
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.BCS 150: The Punctuality Machine, Or, A Steampunk Libretto
Thu, 14 May 2015 04:00:26 +0000
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.Thu, 30 Apr 2015 04:00:20 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 018: Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride
Tue, 21 Apr 2015 04:00:20 +0000
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.
Thu, 16 Apr 2015 04:00:56 +0000
By Spencer Ellsworth, from Issue #171 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
The assassin, the mother, and the child fled into the desert.Thu, 09 Apr 2015 04:00:31 +0000
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.
Thu, 02 Apr 2015 04:00:08 +0000
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.Thu, 19 Mar 2015 04:00:13 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 016: Blighted Heart
Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:00:13 +0000
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.
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 04:00:50 +0000
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.BCS 144: The King in the Cathedral
Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:00:29 +0000
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.”BCS 143: The Metamorphoses of Narcissus
Thu, 05 Feb 2015 04:00:08 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 015: The Ascent of Unreason
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 04:00:08 +0000
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.
BCS 142: Everything Beneath You
Thu, 22 Jan 2015 04:00:27 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 014: Between Shifting Skin and Certainty
Thu, 15 Jan 2015 04:00:27 +0000
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?”
BCS 141: Novel Excerpt Galápagos Regained
Thu, 08 Jan 2015 04:00:43 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 013: Mr Morrow Becomes Acquainted with the Delicate Art of Squid Keeping
Fri, 02 Jan 2015 04:00:43 +0000
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.
Thu, 25 Dec 2014 04:00:48 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 012: The Last Gorgon
Thu, 18 Dec 2014 04:00:48 +0000
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.
BCS Audio Vault 011: System, Magic, Spirit
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 04:00:13 +0000
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.
BCS Audio Vault 010: Armistice Day
Thu, 20 Nov 2014 04:00:39 +0000
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.
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 04:00:53 +0000
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...BCS Audio Vault 009: Ill-Met at Midnight
Thu, 06 Nov 2014 04:00:53 +0000
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.
BCS 138: The Rugmaker’s Lovers
Thu, 30 Oct 2014 04:00:16 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 008: The Suffering Gallery
Thu, 23 Oct 2014 04:00:16 +0000
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?”
Thu, 16 Oct 2014 04:00:53 +0000
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.BCS 136: The Moon Over Red Trees
Thu, 09 Oct 2014 04:00:41 +0000
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?Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:00:41 +0000
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.”BCS Audio Vault 007: Memories in Bronze, Feathers, and Blood
Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:00:53 +0000
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.
BCS 134: The Good Deaths, Part II
Thu, 18 Sep 2014 04:00:48 +0000
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.BCS Audio Vault 006: The Penitent
Thu, 11 Sep 2014 04:00:48 +0000
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.
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 04:00:28 +0000
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.Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:00:28 +0000
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.
BCS 132: Five Fruits I Ate in Sandar Land
Thu, 21 Aug 2014 04:00:09 +0000
By Michael Haynes, from Issue #154 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I hesitate, but only for a second. Surely Rose would forgive me.BCS Audio Vault 004: Precious Meat
Thu, 14 Aug 2014 04:00:09 +0000
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.
Thu, 07 Aug 2014 04:00:31 +0000
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.Thu, 31 Jul 2014 04:00:31 +0000
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.
BCS Audio Vault 002: One Ear Back
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 04:00:50 +0000
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.
BCS Audio Vault 001: How the Wicker Knight Would Not Move
Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:29:37 +0000
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."
BCS 130: The Black Waters of Lethe
Thu, 26 Jun 2014 04:00:18 +0000
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.BCS 129: Ink of My Bones, Blood of My Hands
Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:00:47 +0000
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.Thu, 29 May 2014 04:00:20 +0000
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.BCS 127: We, As One, Trailing Embers
Thu, 15 May 2014 05:00:23 +0000
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.BCS 126: The Lighthouse Keepers
Thu, 01 May 2014 05:00:54 +0000
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.BCS 125: At the Edge of the Sea
Thu, 17 Apr 2014 05:00:27 +0000
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.BCS 124: Golden Daughter, Stone Wife
Thu, 03 Apr 2014 04:00:51 +0000
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.BCS 123: Sekhmet Hunts the Dying Gnosis: A Computation
Thu, 27 Mar 2014 05:00:44 +0000
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.BCS 122: The River Does Not Run
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 04:00:44 +0000
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.Thu, 06 Mar 2014 04:00:27 +0000
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.Thu, 20 Feb 2014 04:00:22 +0000
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.BCS 119: Evensong, Having Been Answered
Thu, 06 Feb 2014 04:00:04 +0000
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.Thu, 23 Jan 2014 04:00:42 +0000
By Nathaniel Lee, from Issue #139 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine
I missed all the excitement the day the trains walked away.Thu, 09 Jan 2014 04:00:51 +0000
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.Thu, 26 Dec 2013 04:00:24 +0000
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.BCS 115: The Adventure of the Pyramid of Bacconyus
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 04:00:47 +0000
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.Thu, 31 Oct 2013 04:00:45 +0000
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.BCS 113: Walls of Skin, Soft as Paper
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 04:00:47 +0000
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.Thu, 03 Oct 2013 04:00:21 +0000
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.BCS 111: The Goblin King’s Concubine
Thu, 19 Sep 2013 04:00:03 +0000
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."Thu, 05 Sep 2013 04:00:34 +0000
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.BCS 109: The Study of Monstrosities
Thu, 22 Aug 2013 04:00:05 +0000
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.BCS 108: Last Rites for a Vagabond
Thu, 08 Aug 2013 04:00:30 +0000
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.BCS 107: The Girl Who Welcomed Death to Svalgearyen
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 04:00:05 +0000
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.Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:00:58 +0000
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.BCS 105: Our Dead Selves Lie Like Footsteps in Our Wake
Thu, 30 May 2013 04:00:32 +0000
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.BCS 104: Singing Like a Hundred Dug-up Bones
Thu, 16 May 2013 05:00:02 +0000
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.BCS 103: The Clockwork Trollop
Thu, 02 May 2013 05:00:39 +0000
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?”BCS 102: The Barber and the Count
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:00:24 +0000
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."Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:00:51 +0000
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.BCS 100: Boat in Shadows, Crossing
Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:00:59 +0000
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?"BCS 099: Bakemono, or The Thing That Changes
Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:00:38 +0000
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.BCS 098: Sate My Thirst with Ink and Blood
Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:00:19 +0000
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.Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:00:25 +0000
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.Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:00:45 +0000
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.BCS 095: The Scorn of the Peregrinator
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:00:06 +0000
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.BCS 094: Seeking The Great Raymundo
Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:00:03 +0000
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.BCS 093: They Make of You a Monster
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:00:37 +0000
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.Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:00:12 +0000
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."Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:00:29 +0000
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.BCS 089: The Ascent of Unreason
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 04:00:19 +0000
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.BCS 088: When Averly Fell from the Sky
Thu, 06 Sep 2012 04:00:53 +0000
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.BCS 087: The Angel Azrael Delivers Small Mercies
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:00:33 +0000
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.BCS 086: The Three Feats of Agani
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:00:00 +0000
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.