Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts

By Fran Wilde, from Issue #261, Tenth Anniversary Month Double-Issue I of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.There are some in Quadril who will call that my first mistake. They'd be wrong, my child.More info »

By Nina Kiriki Hoffman, from Issue #260 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Setsu Uzumé.As the oldest, I had to make sure I and my four sisters and little brother gave greetings to our parents in their first year under the ice.More info »

By Justin Howe, from Issue #259 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.That morning, everywhere he drove he heard about the murder that wasn’t murder but business done by different name. “A dead incast in Pingree. Shot, tche.”More info »

By Damien Krsteski, from Issue #255 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.He stared into the flickering eyes of the monster he'd drawn, hypnotized, stricken, and his shivering stopped as grief became anger.More info »

By Blaine Vitallo, from Issue #253 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Reilitas has dreamed of the snake, dreamed of hammering its beautiful onyx scales into ceremonial knives, shields, the faces of clocks.More info »

By A.J. Fitzwater, from Issue #252 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Dan Rabarts.Taking her place in line, the marmot graced her pirate lover with a toothy smile. "Can't let you have all the fun, Cinny."More info »

By Jonathan Edelstein, from Issue #251 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineSlowly, Ukeme read the first row of characters: a knotty point of customary law. The second called for an essay on the Osun Republic’s conquest of Benin two centuries before. The third...More info »

By Richard Parks, from Issue #250, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.Now I understood my impression of the magistrate’s reaction. More, I did not miss Mei Li’s implication—it applied to herself as much as the magistrate.More info »

By K.J. Parker, from Issue #250, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Heath Miller.For once in my life, I could walk down the street without looking for places to run to if I heard someone yell my name.More info »

By Rahul Kanakia, from Issue #249 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by David D. Levine.Sometimes the crimes were egregious. In these cases I ripped up the would-be magicians with no compunctions. But other times...More info »

By Cassandra Khaw, from Issue #248 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Mei Huang repeats the rite so many times it becomes indistinguishable from breath, and still every iteration ends with the soldier dead.More info »

By J.W. Alden, from Issue #247 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineAdia's fingers found the blade hidden in the folds of her kirtle. She dismissed the pang of guilt at the thought of what she now must do.More info »

By Phoenix Alexander, from Issue #246 – Science-Fantasy Month 4 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.She says instead: "because he isn’t coming."More info »

By Rich Larson, from Issue #245 – Science-Fantasy Month 4 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.The cube is like nothing she’s ever seen, an enormous black box composed of a thousand shifting slivers breaking and melding, rippling, almost liquid.More info »

By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #244 – Science-Fantasy Month 4 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.She had been a young cat when the Fleet Lords burned the City of High Bells.More info »

By Nin Harris, from Issue #243 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineMalaguena refuses to play most of the pieces dedicated to the other moons, but this sonata, composed for the Swan Moon, accompanies our evenings.More info »

By Tamara Vardomskaya, from Issue #242 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.I won on my first attempt when I was fourteen; so long ago it seems meaningless.More info »

By Adam-Troy Castro & Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, from Issue #239 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.And with that I gave up so many things, so many golden sunrises and so many lingering sunsets.More info »

By Marie Brennan, from Issue #238 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.Dangling from a rope two hundred feet above the rooftops of Râu Tare, I find myself questioning the decisions that have led me to this point.More info »

By Natalia Theodoridou, from Issue #237 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Serah avoids his eyes. "I've been pregnant a long time," she says after a while. "The baby won't come."More info »

By Rebecca Campbell, from Issue #236 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThere was a letter addressed to him and beneath it a chaos of paper, the slips and sheets and scraps in no obvious order.More info »

By Richard Parks, from Issue #235, Ninth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.Yes, one of the Three Jewels of the Tao was compassion, as my father would expound at great length to anyone foolish enough to sit still for it, but in practice we asked a price for such assistance.More info »

By Michael J. DeLuca, from Issue #234 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by the author.But for the Wolf, Staggerlee would've written it off as a whiskey vision.More info »

By Fran Wilde, from Issue #233 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.Liras tried to remain at his workbench and finish the customer's wings, but the pain grew too much.More info »

By Charles Payseur, from Issue #230 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Dave Thompson.We ride stolen horses over the choked earth.More info »

By R.B. Lemberg, from Issue #229 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineA special five-hour audio novella in celebration of our 200th episode of the BCS Audio Fiction Podcast! Narrated by C.S.E. Cooney.Across great distances I hear her voice rolling over the sand, traipsing gently above bones of impossible beasts that perhaps had one day populated the desert.More info »

By Justin Howe, from Issue #228 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNot but three hours ago, beyond my study’s shuttered window I heard the song-girl recite those closing words from Horn’s Ashen Quintessence.More info »

By A.J. Lucy, from Issue #227 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.It burns like dust in Sere’s eyes to hear Tashet take her name back, to keep for herself.More info »

By Richard Parks, from Issue #226 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.“Honored Father Pan Bao,” I asked, “Please tell me again why we are on this freezing mountain? I haven’t seen the sun since we entered this forest.”More info »

By Caroline M. Yoachim, from Issue #225 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.I wanted to be angry with her, but she was a stranger, she'd never really been a part of my life.More info »

By Tony Pi, from Issue #224 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by John Meagher.I greeted the spirit of Dog echoing within my mind with a reverent thought. Your visit surprises yet honors me, Lord Dog.More info »

By Carrie Vaughn, from Issue #223 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Setsu Uzumé.Jared studied her, her sopping hair and gaunt face.More info »

By J.W. Halicks, from Issue #222 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine“We’ll play, and if you can't find me, then Mother stays.”More info »

By Rodello Santos, from Issue #221 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineShe closes tear-drenched eyes, thinks back to a time when a word, a look, a nod could have made a difference.More info »

By Sara Saab, from Issue #220 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.In the amnesty-city of Vannat, Aln Panette has let guilt go.More info »

By Margaret Killjoy, from Issue #219 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Sal stood alone in the field, feeling the absence of her friend's touch. Being open to death was the cost of living free.More info »

By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #218 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.And Eirik's men made it out of the forest, and we made it back to our cave, and King Harald was still dead, still not coming back to save us.More info »

By Eleanna Castroianni, from Issue #217 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Folu has forgotten how to read the cards, but something is stirring.More info »

By Claire Humphrey, from Issue #216 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.We dry the tongues on butcher's paper beside the stove. Once desiccated, they barely have a scent.More info »

By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #214 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By Evan Dicken, from Issue #212 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.I used to dream of the heart our masters would give me.More info »

By KJ Kabza, from Issue #211 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineEveryone stopped in front of the tree, staring at its asymmetrical horror.More info »

By Stephanie Burgis, from Issue #210 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine“Nonsense. You are my guest.” The dragon reached out with long, sharp, delicately curving claws and tipped the teapot.More info »

By Gregory Norman Bossert, from Issue #209, Eighth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Alasdair Stuart.While she sang, the crowded room was quiet, through her gift the audience made into unlikely brothers.More info »

By Jonathan Edelstein, from Issue #208 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.—What will she do? She will love you, and she will eat you. No, you can't cut through the reeds.More info »

By Marie Brennan, from Issue #207 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Liz Duffy Adams.No matter how many times she watched it, Ada could not see how the transformation happened.More info »

By Marie Brennan, from Issue #207 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.Magrat was right. This man stood at the heart of it.More info »

By Rachael K. Jones, from Issue #203 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Setsu Uzumé.One, two, three eggs into her mouth, one sharp bite, and the clear, viscous glair ran down her throat.More info »

By Ann Chatham, from Issue #202 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.The scrape and clatter of steps on stone was replaced by the rush of wind beating against her face with the strength of an approaching storm.More info »

By Catherynne M. Valente, from Issue #201 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Heath Miller.For the sake of the beautiful Dogaressa, I took up my father’s battered old pipe and punty.More info »