Beneath Ceaseless Skies Audio Fiction Podcasts

By Rajan Khanna, from Issue #163 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.I lift the Gorgon’s head and remember my mother as she lay dying in her bed.More info »

By T.D. Edge, from Issue #162 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.There's nothing better than low-ranking, fad-following royalty for extinguishing any last desire to even bother fighting for one's life against other wizards in the Ring.More info »

By Marissa Lingen, from Issue #161 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.Things got worse when they started to have their flush of post-war babies and wanted us back out again.More info »

By Peter Hickman, from Issue #160 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineI knew the streets. I were a quick strike and a wary eye, but this...More info »

By David Tallerman, from Issue #160 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by narrator John Meagher.The target was thrashing hard enough that the smooth handles of the garrote were biting into Otranto's palms.More info »

By Brynn MacNab, from Issue #159 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Something sat in the rugmaker's belly, small and solid and chill, and her husband's songs ceased to warm it.More info »

By Matthew Kressel, from Issue #159 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.“Do you question me, Mielbok, the Billion-Toothed Maggot?”More info »

By Gwendolyn Clare, from Issue #158 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.The body's exposed intestines writhed with pale-pink caterpillars, Corpsewing larvae, a sight Yinghua found at once repulsive and fascinating.More info »

By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #157, Sixth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineRead by Kate Baker of Clarkesworld Magazine....where she might well always be the jumped-up little Annamite to other Frenchmen—but what does it matter, if she has Raoul's love?More info »

By Richard Parks, from Issue #157, Sixth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineI considered what he had said now as I regarded the rain spirit. “I believe that there’s something the headman isn’t telling us.”More info »

By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #158 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.But we—we are alive, in a way that no other making will be.More info »

By Angela Ambroz, from Issue #156 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.The Lord Buddha spoke to me that night. He said to take my hatchet, dust it off, and get to those towns and saloons out there. Those damnable pits of damnation.More info »

By M. Bennardo, from Issue #156 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.All day, No. 17596 waited, but the guards never came.More info »

By Tony Pi, from Issue #155 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineA 2015 Parsec Award Finalist for Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast. Narrated by 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 Kathryn Allen, from Issue #155 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by author Marie Brennan.I take my time undressing her, half-expecting for The Marshal to come calling.More info »

By Michael Haynes, from Issue #154 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineI hesitate, but only for a second. Surely Rose would forgive me.More info »

By Catherine S. Perdue, from Issue #154 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by audiobook narrator John Meagher.I am Boon. I lead my pack.More info »

By Fran Wilde, from Issue #153 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineI could not answer her. I had no memory of doing anything besides preparing the topaz.More info »

By Kenneth Mark Hoover, from Issue #153 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.Her words got me to thinking about my past. What there was to remember.More info »

By Tina Connolly, from Issue #152 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by the author.I was looking into his ankle, then there was a frightening jerk on my tail and I was peering into his long wide face.More info »

By Chris Willrich, from Issue #151 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIntroduced by Hugo Award-winning editor Lou Anders."And yet Now is upon us," said Tvarn Wind-Tamer. "For the Perfection is moving. Look."More info »

By Oliver Buckram, from Issue #150 - Special Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Norm Sherman of The Drabblecast.I scan the opposite shore of the wide river for any sign of human activity, for the people who sent the boat.More info »

By Vylar Kaftan, from Issue #149 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineTheir bodies returned to the tar pit, the fierce source of his power; and this was the work of my hated lord and master.More info »

By M. Bennardo, from Issue #148 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.From three blocks away, Tom Brown could hear the big bass drum from the Women's Christian Temperance Union band as they thundered down Second Avenue.More info »

By E. Catherine Tobler, from Issue #147 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Ann Leckie.With eyes closed, there is a singular heartbeat, a solitary pulse, and when we stretch, there is no we.More info »

By Nicole M. Taylor, from Issue #146 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe 300th story to appear in BCS!It was a frightening, lovely thing; the way the great lens refracted the firelight and sent it out over the water.More info »

By Raphael Ordoñez, from Issue #145 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineRead by Michael J. DeLuca.Blood is salt, like seawater; the heart moves an ocean in miniature.More info »

By Benjanun Sriduangkaew, from Issue #144 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.Tomorrow she will confront; tomorrow she will demand. In this house she is no one’s lesser.More info »

By Seth Dickinson, from Issue #143 - Science-Fantasy Month 2 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.A strange impulse, an alien need: she devours all that she knows, and knows all that she devours.More info »

By Rachel Sobel, from Issue #143 - Science-Fantasy Month 2 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.The graceful architecture of this place has haunted her dreams since the first years of her training.More info »

By Aliette de Bodard, from Issue #142 - Science-Fantasy Month 2 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.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 Ann Chatham, from Issue #141 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.I stared at him, feeling the dirt of travel and the coarse fabric of the borrowed peasant’s wools against my skin.More info »

By Dean Wells, from Issue #140 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe iterations of his death resound about him like the echoes of a minor chord.More info »

By Nathaniel Lee, from Issue #139 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineI missed all the excitement the day the trains walked away.More info »

By A.E. Decker, from Issue #138 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe washed-out sky and black indifferent trees blur as I cough out the fire within me.More info »

By C.T. Hutt, from Issue #137 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineThe Shiner Man’s covered wagon walked across the desert on six metal legs.More info »

By Caleb Wilson, from Issue #134 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.The three cousins walked through a tunnel low enough that their head leaves brushed and bent on the ceiling.More info »

By Gemma Files, from Issue #133 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineJenkins tipped his hat to her prediction, sending up a brief sketch of a prayer himself—perhaps useful, perhaps not, depending on who might be listening—that the next few days wouldn't disprove it.More info »

By Adam Callaway, from Issue #132 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineTomai took his wife’s fragile hand in his own. He felt like if he held it even as if it were a child’s, the bones would snap like pine dowels.More info »

By M. Bennardo, from Issue #131, Fifth Anniversary Double-Issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineRead by Rajan Khanna.As Constant Sterry slipped exhausted from his saddle, the last he saw was that same figure approaching, outstretched hands sheathed in thin black gloves with lacework as fine as any to be found.More info »

By Raphael Ordoñez, from Issue #130 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Dan Rabarts."Then leave this place forever!" Maugreth cried. "Forget this goblin in his caves. Leave the monsters to their own."More info »

By David Tallerman, from Issue #129 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by John Meagher. Named a Top Pick of the month in the September 2013 episode of the Synthetic Voices podcast.The target was thrashing hard enough that the smooth handles of the garrote were biting into Otranto's palms.More info »

By Greg Kurzawa, from Issue #128 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Michael J. DeLuca.Ethan looked at the sepia photograph again. A man? No, it was anything but.More info »

By Justin Howe, from Issue #127 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Rajan Khanna.The trick’s to stay away so long no one remembers the hurt from how you left. More info »

By Barbara A. Barnett, from Issue #126 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Tina Connolly.The flickers of firelight skipped over the ground and tickled Adda's feet, even through her heavy boots.More info »

By M. Bennardo, from Issue #123 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineRead by Michael J. DeLuca. Named a Top Pick of the month in the June 2013 episode of the Synthetic Voices podcast.All day, No. 17596 waited, but the guards never came.More info »

By Jeff Isacksen, from Issue #122 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineIt has to be true, because a year without her is a year without myself.More info »

By Alex Dally MacFarlane, from Issue #121 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by Folly Blaine.“Come back and sing with me!” the ghost calls at her back.More info »

By Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald, from Issue #120 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online MagazineNarrated by T.D. Edge.“Professor Haversham!” I exclaimed. “What is the meaning of this vulgar display?”More info »

By Michael Haynes, from Issue #119 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine"But then why let him live? You had blades at his neck for half an hour, no doubt."More info »