Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts

By Pooja Peravali, from Issue #377 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.How does one explain it to one such as her, how motherhood tugs at you?More info »

By Kelsey Hutton, from Issue #376 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Laurie McDougall.She’d hoped to sew a dress powerful enough to remind the queen who the queen claimed as kin, and who claimed her in return.More info »

By Jonathan Olfert, from Issue #375 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.All four were Brothers of Dule, magicians of a shared heritage and shared interests, her enemies—and yet there might be fissures.More info »

By M.A. Carrick, from Issue #373 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Marie Brennan.The warp is Constant Ivan, strong and steady. The weft is Clever Natalya, darting here and there.More info »

By Gretchen Tessmer, from Issue #371 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.She finds herself muttering to Jonah, “What if Leah never knows what any color but grey looks like?”More info »

By Tina Connolly, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.And this was apparently the point where she was supposed to feel lucky.More info »

By Patty Templeton, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By Christopher Rowe, from Issue #370 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.All the cantrevs of his homeland had been burned.More info »

By K.J. Parker, from Issue #369 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By K.J. Parker, from Issue #368 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By K.J. Parker, from Issue #366, Fourteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Heath Miller.Try thinking about it, the Archer God had said, so I did.More info »

By James Morrow, from Issue #366, Fourteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Lot revisits his tankard and frowns thoughtfully.More info »

By Adam R. Shannon, from Issue #365 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineFeaturing Scott H. Andrews, Michael J. DeLuca, Tina Connolly, M.K. Hobson, and Summer Fletcher.Annell's throws always rose high enough that the skies accepted her sacrifice. Why did she have to leave instead of me?More info »

By Eugenia Triantafyllou, from Issue #365 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.I am terrified of the moment when Osarah and I will hunt down the animal that bears our child and kill it.More info »

By R.B. Lemberg, from Issue #364 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By Riley Neither, from Issue #363 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.I am not saying I don’t have the power. There’s no point in denying that. I’m saying I don’t have the right.More info »

By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #362 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineWith 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.More info »

By Valerie Hunter, from Issue #360 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.Amelia is the best pilot the Territorial Revolutionists have. That's not boasting, it’s just true.More info »

By Devin Miller, from Issue #358 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.She has offered a dangerous thing, but oh, it is a sweet one too. To lie with a dryad, queen of the wood, would be an experience unlike any other.More info »

By A.J. Lucy, from Issue #357 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By Cat Hellisen, from Issue #356 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.He was speared by a finless, and we watched his head rot at the edge of the sea.More info »

By Aimee Ogden, from Issue #355 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Time is the greatest sorcerer, and eventually it will force him into a new shape: a sea-bloated corpse.More info »

By Derrick Boden, from Issue #354 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.The monster-thing watched with great interest. Leti turned the page and started to read.More info »

By AnaMaria Curtis, from Issue #353 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.I always wanted the best of as many worlds as I could get my hands on, though I only ever managed two.More info »

By Jonathan Louis Duckworth, from Issue #352 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.My name’s Zilda Trueshake and I’m big for twelve, or so Dad Bray is always like to tell.More info »

By Patty Templeton, from Issue #351 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe trestle bridge caught fire in 1911. The train dropped. The ravine caught it.More info »

By Peter Darbyshire, from Issue #351 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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. More info »

By Phoenix Alexander, from Issue #350 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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."More info »

By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #350 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.Thanh Lan walked to the door, legs shaking.More info »

By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #349 – Science-Fantasy Month 6 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.The third bonsai swayed to the bleak tides of distant and colliding black hole inspirals.More info »

By J.A. Prentice, from Issue #348 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.There was silence in the workshop, and for a terrible moment, he was afraid he would receive an answer.More info »

By Christie Yant, from Issue #347 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By Jonathan Olfert, from Issue #346 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.I thought I saw a smile flicker past in the dark, quick as one of his sharktooth arrows.More info »

By M.A. Carrick, from Issue #344 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By Charles Payseur, from Issue #343 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By Charles Payseur, from Issue #342 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By Jonathan Louis Duckworth, from Issue #342 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Unless Tadie didn’t let him. She stepped a pace back and pulled Loyd with her, away from Jessen.More info »

By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #341 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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!More info »

By Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, from Issue #341 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly."Tell me, Maria," she said. "What is happening to our people?"More info »

By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #340, Thirteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By K.J. Parker, from Issue #340, Thirteenth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Heath Miller.Love is the arrow that pins us down so we can't escape.More info »

By Tamara Jerée, from Issue #339 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Maxine L. Moore.Her voice is soft when she speaks, as if anything louder could aggravate my old wound.More info »

By Jenny Rae Rappaport, from Issue #338 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.But this is a test designed to weed the weak from the strong, and part of Bryce realizes that she must try something different.More info »

By Robert Minto, from Issue #337 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe angels plunged into the orange glowing mouth of my kiln.More info »

By Aimee Ogden, from Issue #332 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.I am still myself and so I am answered at last: yes, I have a soul, no matter what shape its vessel is forced into.More info »

By Tania Fordwalker, from Issue #331 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Shon knows silence well.More info »

By R.K. Duncan, from Issue #330 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Peter Adrian Behravesh.Hassan had loved her, but his eyes had still been clear enough to know how the world saw her.More info »

By Marie Brennan, from Issue #329 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNone of them would talk about it—except to say, as her father had, that this was Penderel family tradition.More info »

By Adam R. Shannon, from Issue #328 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Every new shore was the same: a blue expanse conjoined to unyielding volcanic stone, wreathed in a furious margin of foam.More info »

By C.L. Clark, from Issue #326 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.Commander Maeb Len knows that, more than anything, an army needs hope in order to struggle onward.More info »