Audio-fiction and More.

One of the best things about Fridays, other than them simply being FRIDAYS, is the double shot of audio -fiction from EscapePod and PseudoPod. It wouldn't be the weekend without these wonderful site. Today is no exception as they highlight this morning's free Fantasy, SF, Horror, and Pulp action.

Audio-Fiction
EscapePod has their 167th episode up with Frank Wu's "Love and Death in the Time of Monsters." Read by Stephen Eley.

They try everything. Cellular toxins. DNA replication inhibitors. Anti-sense nucleic acids. Artillery. Great bolts of lightning. Nothing stops him, it only makes the monster angrier. They try mutagens, teratogens, carcinogens, neurotoxins, hemotoxins, genotoxins — they think that toxins in the environment created the monster, and maybe toxins can kill it. Maybe two wrongs can make a right.

Available in a 31 minute Mp3 or streaming Here.

And PseudoPod has a new horror audio-story up "Photo Finish" by Adam Le Rusic, read by Cheyenne Wright.

“10-47. We’re going to need more units,” the scanner blurted. Hostage! Cruisers headed to the area like swarming wasps. Every other news beat in town monitored the police bandwidth and I bet they’d be clamoring at the bit for this one. We had to get there fast. “What’s going on?” I asked, accepting the hat and coat, forcing myself awake. “In the car,” she said.

Available in a 24 minute MP3 or streaming Here. PseudoPod cautions that all their stories are for adults.
E-books
FantasyBookSpot.com has an exclusive Benjamin Rosenbaum short story (flash fiction) "The Valley of Giants" available for online reading Here. (via SF Signal). A bit graphic for very young readers.








Feedbooks has added Dr. Who: The Sands of Time, making it available in more E-book formats Here.








And Munseys has "A Shot in the Dark" by Ray Cummings, a pulp/noir story from Popular Detective , September 1936. (No relationship to the hilarious Blake Edwards film). Available Here.

Comics
From The Horrors Of It All comes "You Are The Murderer!" a tale of betrayal and occult catalepsis. This story from Crime Mysteries #9 is available Here. And the Comic Book Catacombs a pulp action crime story "The Clue of the Tin Whistle" Here (part 1) and Here (part 2).