Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts

By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #200, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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.More info »

By Seth Dickinson, from Issue #200, Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.They pass through everything that will be lost if they fail.More info »

By A.T. Greenblatt, from Issue #199 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine"This isn't your choice," said Jade. "You're dead."More info »

By Fran Wilde, from Issue #199 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.I could not answer her. I had no memory of doing anything besides preparing the topaz.More info »

By Sylvia V. Linsteadt, from Issue #198 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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.More info »

By Tony Pi, from Issue #197 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineA 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.More info »

By Tony Pi, from Issue #197 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By Alter S. Reiss, from Issue #196 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineOver his years on the island, he had been given nine other books, but they had become outworn, nothing in them to distract him.More info »

By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #195 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #195 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.Thuy deactivates the suits' propulsion units and watches her daughter's remains, floating beside her.More info »

By Sarah Pinsker, from Issue #195 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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.More info »

By Cat Rambo, from Issue #194 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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.More info »

By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #194 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.She cursed herself for freezing up and ruminating when the proper response was to react.More info »

By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #194 - Science-Fantasy Month 3 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Nuclear physics was not typically a fox specialty, although my mother had allowed that astrology was all right.More info »

By Dean Wells, from Issue #193 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineConsuming the native crustaceans had given rise to bone cancers and rotting ulcers of the skin, from which death was a cruel relief.More info »

By Tamara Vardomskaya, from Issue #192 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by M.K. Hobson.Except that I learned that if they spoke truth, it was not to me.More info »

By D.K. Thompson, from Issue #191 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineRead by Ian Stuart.Despite my profession, I have never considered myself to be a holy man.More info »

By Walter Dinjos, from Issue #190 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineRead by the author.I longed for someone with whom I could engage in our papaya-pipe-gun battles in the surrounding forests.More info »

By David Tallerman, from Issue #189 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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.More info »

By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #187 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.When she spoke, her voice stopped him, as surely as a knife drawn across his throat.More info »

By Cory Skerry, from Issue #186 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineBut 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.More info »

By Rebecca Campbell, from Issue #185 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineRead by Liz Duffy Adams.I could not imagine that my charge could conceive something so strange, so unpleasant.More info »

By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #184 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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.More info »

By I.L. Heisler, from Issue #183, Seventh Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe other hand held aloft his trophy—the severed head of my mother.More info »

By Suzanne Palmer, from Issue #182 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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."More info »

By Fran Wilde, from Issue #181 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.Liras tried to remain at his workbench and finish the customer's wings, but the pain grew too much.More info »

By Caroline M. Yoachim, from Issue #179 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.Horimachi's own tattoos were from before the war, when black ink was made of soot instead of faery blood.More info »

By Kate Alice Marshall, from Issue #178 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineMattar comes to the house of Anaharesh in search of a single word; a word to end a war.More info »

By Karalynn Lee, from Issue #177 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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.More info »

By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #176 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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?More info »

By Michael J. DeLuca, from Issue #176 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.The cat departs from the moonbeam, flicking its tails.More info »

By Kay Chronister, from Issue #175 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineAna thought the land of the dead would be empty, but it is full to bursting.More info »

By Yoon Ha Lee, from Issue #174 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe 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.More info »

By Bill Powell, from Issue #173 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineA 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.More info »

By Erin Cashier, from Issue #172 - Special Weird Western Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineA 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.More info »

By Saladin Ahmed, from Issue #172 - Special Weird Western Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By Spencer Ellsworth, from Issue #171 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe assassin, the mother, and the child fled into the desert.More info »

By Erin Cashier, from Issue #171 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.I'd had a name, a long time ago. But no one but me remembered it.More info »

By Sylvia Anna Hivén, from Issue #170 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineExcept one day, Cassie ain't telling me what will vanish. She tells me something's coming.More info »

By Carrie Vaughn, from Issue #169 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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.More info »

By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #169 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.His eyes, shining yellow in the night, were the ones I remembered from the day I had lost my heart.More info »

By Alyc Helms, from Issue #168 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineTutti 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.More info »

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.”More info »

By Tamara Vardomskaya, from Issue #166 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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.More info »

By Marie Brennan, from Issue #166 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.If Tolyat wanted to see the whole of Driftwood at once, he had to get close to the Crush.More info »

By Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, from Issue #165 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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.More info »

By Justin Howe, from Issue #165 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.“If it was the last skin you wore,” he said, “would you take it?”More info »

By James Morrow, from Issue #164 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated 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.More info »

By Geoffrey Maloney, from Issue #164 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced 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.More info »

By Sam J. Miller, from Issue #163 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe metalman had always been behind her, its steel hooks eager to split her open, for as far back as she could remember.More info »