Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts
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BCS 360: The Sparrow Tree
BCS 359: The Sea Child
By Justin Wesley Ferguson, from Issue #453 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Gerda set the dress aside and tried to do the same with the stirrings of dread in her stomach.More info »
BCS 358: Hollow in The Hope
By Aimee Ogden, from Issue #451 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.They should use those hours wisely, and not in seeking counsel—or worse, comfort—from a woman long dead.More info »
BCS 357: Medusa’s Ship, or The Thing About Bodies
By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #450 – Science-Fantasy Month 8 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine—she the ship recalls stories she never read of women and men in rivers weighed down their pockets full of stones—More info »
BCS 356: Sing
By Jules Bly, from Issue #448 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Summer Fletcher.Do not stop singing. If your voice fails, the world vanishes.More info »
BCS 355: A Good Brother
By Anne Wilkins, from Issue #447 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine“Perhaps,” I lie.More info »
BCS 354: The Crow’s Second Tale
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #445 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.Kiris was only five years old and had not even started training as a magician when she learned a song that told of a crow that only knew one story.More info »
BCS 353: My Sincere Apologies For the Demon
By Adrian Ward, from Issue #443 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineRegarding the banishing of Erimodius, you shall, I expect, be most pleased to hear that he has been returned to the Realm of Flame.More info »
BCS 352: Pools of Light at the Center of the World
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 »
BCS 351: Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth
By Kate Francia, from Issue #441 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.She could do this simple thing: walk through her door.More info »
BCS 350: Postman, Soldier, Traitor
By Vijayalaxmi Samal, from Issue #439 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Dominick Rabrun.There is nowhere else he could go. He will go where the letter takes him.More info »
BCS 349: Out of Draconia
By Alma Alexander, from Issue #436 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 348: The Feather Tree
By KJ Kabza, from Issue #435 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 347: Unbeaten
By Grace Seybold, from Issue #432 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Summer Fletcher.I would be a sword no longer.More info »
BCS 346: The Tale of How You Were Born
By Eleanor Elizabeth Fog, from Issue #431 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 345: The Midwife in the Palace of the Forest King
By Jelena Dunato, from Issue #429 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 344: Tea for Truth, Mango for Memory
By Nicole L. Soper Gorden, from Issue #427 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.But no visitor here would dare turn her in, whether they left with a cloud or not.More info »
BCS 343: Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows
By Somto Ihezue, from Issue #425 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Opeyemi Ogundiran.They put you in a room with the other girls—soon to be brides like yourself.More info »
BCS 342: Half Drowned
By S.L. Harris, from Issue #423 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineI 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 »
BCS 341: Speaking the Sun
By Thomas Bales, from Issue #421 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThey say that if I stop speaking, the sun will not rise.More info »
BCS 340: Three Drops in the River
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #418 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 338: Nine Tenths of the Law
By K.J. Parker, from Issue #417, Sixteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Heath Miller.Someone yelling inside my head gives me a migraine for the rest of the day.More info »
BCS 339: Black Wine From the Slopes of Dawn
By Rajiv Moté, from Issue #417, Sixteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.The necromancers' wine wasn't merely dark; it sat in the cup like glistening black oil.More info »
BCS 337: After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland
By Max Franciscovich, from Issue #416 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.We are what he made us; you must know this.More info »
BCS 335: Conversation with a Dragon
By Cat Rambo, from Issue #414 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 336: At the Stopping Place
By Grace Seybold, from Issue #414 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 334: The Wicks Whisper
By Emily C. Skaftun, from Issue #411 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Even so, I’m tempted to light my new soul candle. Mom.More info »
BCS 333: An Uncanny Patch and Uncanny Hole: The Final Account from the Records of Ptaten, Imperial Surveyor
By Cara Masten DiGirolamo, from Issue #409 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 332: Gods and Monsters and Brothers
By J. Bridges, from Issue #407 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.He was a shell of his former self by the time I found him.More info »
BCS 331: A Pilgrimage to the God of High Places
By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #406 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.I could have refused. A year earlier, two years, I would have.More info »
BCS 330: A Reflection of Sun
By Liana Richmond, from Issue #405 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 329: The Coffee of Torcat
By Devin Miller, from Issue #404 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 328: The Dust Eater
By Adam Breckenridge, from Issue #403 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 327: Tell the King
By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #401 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 326: The Rug-Maker and the Wonder Collector
By Emily McIntyre, from Issue #400 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 325: Doctor Souvenir
By Elly Bangs, from Issue #400 – Science-Fantasy Month 7 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Summer Fletcher.But what kind of weapon could possibly be made out of bittersweet memory?More info »
BCS 324: Willow Wood
By Linda Niehoff, from Issue #398 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 323: What Will Bring You Home
By Jenny Rae Rappaport, from Issue #396 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 322: Something That Has Never Touched the Ground
By Marilyn Hope, from Issue #394 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 321: The Four Gifts of Empress Lessa
By Myna Chang, from Issue #393 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.My ghost is trapped in this bedchamber, much as I was in life.More info »
BCS 320: The Light of Setting Suns
By Samuel Chapman, from Issue #392, Fifteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 319: Where the River Comes From
By Kaitlyn Zivanovich, from Issue #391 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 318: Holding Back the Darkness
By Stephanie Burgis, from Issue #390 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.But in that darkness, there is also power.More info »
BCS 317: Interlude: Shelter From the Storm
By Rajiv Moté, from Issue #389 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.“Those with power who do not act? I do judge them.”More info »
BCS 316: Merciful Even to Scorpions
By Kay Chronister, from Issue #387 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Sandra Espinoza.Maribel should have known that the new pig-boy would have to be named soon.More info »
BCS 315: Disassembling Light
By Kel Coleman, from Issue #385 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Maxine L. Moore.He pointed out more mistakes; some amateur, others he still made on occasion.More info »
BCS 314: Eleanora of the Bones
By Kat Howard, from Issue #383 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Eleanora loved the ossuary best as evening fell.More info »
BCS 313: The Whisper of That Blood
By Maria Haskins, from Issue #382 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 312: The Cuckoo of Vrežna Mountain
By Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, from Issue #380 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »
BCS 311: Blooms
By Grace Seybold, from Issue #378 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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 »