Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts

By Izzy Wasserstein, from Issue #325 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Summer Fletcher.The portents float at the edge of your vision, haunt your dreams, shake themselves free with each throwing of the bones.More info »

By Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko, from Issue #323 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.She is Fallon Deere, First Minister to the Free State of Altorania, and you are you, the woman who sent me to her side.More info »

By Josh Rountree, from Issue #322 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.I was never that person, no matter how hard Ellard and so many others tried to turn me into her.More info »

By M.A. Carrick, from Issue #320 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.Ondrakja chose her approach and her moment with care.More info »

By Jelena Dunato, from Issue #320 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.Put me on, girl, you’ve nothing to lose.More info »

By P H Lee, from Issue #318 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Summer Fletcher.I meet you in the middle of the night in the garden where no one goes. More info »

By Cooper Anderson, from Issue #316 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Rajan Khanna.There is no safety for us anymore in the waxing and waning of the moon.More info »

By Merrie Haskell, from Issue #313, Twelfth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.You carry a rifle and a dream of a white dress. You sleep under the stars. You hunt.More info »

By Richard Parks, from Issue #313, Twelfth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineA more tunnel-like hole had been dug into some of the graves, possibly to test them for the freshness of the corpses.More info »

By Lisa L. Hannett, from Issue #312 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.A pause only Winnifletch herself notices, a twinge in her guts as she unsacks the gull that Gert Mews has lugged to her sea-spindle shack.More info »

By Jeremy Packert Burke, from Issue #311 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineI have wondered these past two years which of us would meet our end first—myself or the city.More info »

By Prashanth Srivatsa, from Issue #307 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Peter Adrian Behravesh.On the fourth night... ...I was at a wedding.More info »

By Greta Hayer, from Issue #306 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.The augur could read on her skin that she would be cared for by an old man who was not her kin.More info »

By Emma Törzs, from Issue #305 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.I hear you are yourself of low birth, Monsieur de la Martinière, and so may understand what it’s like to experience, for the first time, not even luxury but safety.More info »

By Dimitra Nikolaidou, from Issue #304 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe clock is huge, its heavy frame carved with crow feathers and bees, and I dare not look at it too long for fear the hands will start moving again.More info »

By Devin Miller, from Issue #303 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.No troll’s life is so shaped by her body.More info »

By Eleanna Castroianni, from Issue #302 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineWe are the only ones left to herd the ghost-sheep.More info »

By Kali Wallace, from Issue #301 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.We do not discuss, Nell and I.More info »

By Richard Parks, from Issue #300, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineI knew from long experience that yūrei could take on shapes not their own in the course of settling unfinished earthly business.More info »

By Rich Larson, from Issue #299 – Science-Fantasy Month 5 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Rajan Khanna.One nerve cable was still in place, snaking from the gun into their skull.More info »

By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #298 – Science-Fantasy Month 5 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.This particular mermaid had named herself Essarala, which means seeks the stars in the language of tide and foam.More info »

By Tegan Moore, from Issue #297 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThough in the muffled dark of my room I wonder if I might instead go mad.More info »

By C.L. Clark, from Issue #296 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.I made my way to Issheth, my boots crunching on the deck frost. Her eyes shone wet in the sunlight. Maybe it was the glare. Maybe it was not.More info »

By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #295 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly and Summer Fletcher.I don't want to make all our letters about shrews, love, but... I've attached a table I'd like to see filled out with different properties of the shrews and their venom. Thank you!More info »

By Tony Pi, from Issue #294 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by John Meagher.I carefully blew a caramel bubble and made sure that it was inflated enough to serve as the tiger’s body.More info »

By T.S. McAdams, from Issue #290 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineLike the log stockades of Sredna, it would hold a ceratopsid until she decided to leave.More info »

By Mike Allen, from Issue #289 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Frowning at the hole left in Trukos's chest by the Goldbrook man’s knife, Mayya said, “Come with me.”More info »

By Grace Seybold, from Issue #288 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Today it’s the moon that has him thinking of long ago, but lately anything might do it.More info »

By Marie Brennan, from Issue #287, Eleventh Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by S.B. Divya.Again and again I died. Better to cut my thread short and start again than waste lifetimes on a path that would not lead me to my goal.More info »

By K.J. Parker, from Issue #287, Eleventh Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Carla Kissane.“I paint by the inner light,” I said. I tried to make it sound like I was being facetious.More info »

By Eleanna Castroianni, from Issue #286 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineSomething hardened in my world, the way it did every time my father told me that being a man meant being brave.More info »

By Aimee Ogden, from Issue #285 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.The morning of her last day as queen, Nehan's mouth begins to bleed before her attendants finish braiding her hair.More info »

By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #281 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.The fawn is still in its mother's belly. Sapo kneels by the doe and feels for the outlines of the little one with her fingers. A gasp escapes her when it moves under the dead doe's skin.More info »

By Jordyn Blanson, from Issue #280 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.“You most cover it up,” Aksá says, startling me. They hand me long strips of torn fabric. “Let no one know.”More info »

By Lisa M. Bradley, from Issue #279 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Sandra Espinoza.If she were darker brown, might she disappear into the shadows altogether?More info »

By Karen Osborne, from Issue #278 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Setsu Uzumé.Mila kept herself still like a statue, like the weapon she was supposed to be, even though inside she was screaming no, I will not, you can’t just ask me to do that.More info »

By KJ Kabza, from Issue #277 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.In no time at all, I was flying south over fields and forest, as true as an assassin's arrow.More info »

By Troy L. Wiggins, from Issue #276 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.Furious Jackson reclined on the banks of the BlackDog river and strummed her guitar for an audience of dead cypress.More info »

By Jessica Paddock, from Issue #275 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.But most of all she hated the bees, who buzzed about her head and asked to be let in.More info »

By Charles Payseur, from Issue #274 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Dave Thompson.Rory nods. The bullets are Lutean-made, salt and iron and whatever special magic they use to make them potent against rivers.More info »

By Alexander Stanmyer, from Issue #273 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNow Chester is a disciple. An acolyte to the rails. And this was to be their final pilgrimage.More info »

By Nin Harris, from Issue #272 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Stephanie Malia Morris.“Much of what we have in our lives originated as ideas in the human world—even in your parlour furniture.” Velia was always too happy to point out the obvious.More info »

By Samantha Mills, from Issue #271 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIt was unfair, the way he summoned her here for these tense bimonthly appointments. It was unfair, the way she persisted in showing up rather than sending an apprentice.More info »

By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #270 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Then the night comes when the Lady summons me to her room and I go, I do.More info »

By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #269 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Setsu Uzume.I killed my sister with my own two hands.More info »

By Beth Cato, from Issue #268 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly."Take a look. I have them here with me. Please, godling." The girl's fear seeped into the words—as did her faith that Dreya would make everything right again.More info »

By T.S. McAdams, from Issue #265 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThey lost Bragi—Harald lost him—in late spring, when the snow was mostly gone and meadows were livid with velvetbells, ogre-thistle, and mountain orchid.More info »

By Margaret Ronald, from Issue #264 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Katrin had known since she was a little girl what her husband would look like, ever since she was old enough to understand that Aunt Gunna had deeded her farm to Katrin.More info »

By Megan Arkenberg, from Issue #263 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineEvery month when the soldiers bring her supply of flour and milk, they also bring waterproofed parcels of manuscript paper and cool bricks of ink.More info »

By Jaymee Goh, from Issue #262, Tenth Anniversary Month Double-Issue II of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.But the magistrate firmly believes that this pursuit will pay off. He will learn the secret magic potion, and he will be vindicated.More info »