Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Comics, Treasure, Time Machines, and More

Up just before noon! Wow, I didn't think I'd be up this early.

E-Fiction
The seventh issue of the quite cool, bi-weekly magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies is up featuring:

"Snake in the Glass" by P.E. Cunningham.
"Few conjurers remained who had such power. One lived at the end of this trail."

"Sand-Skin Man" by K.C. Shaw
"I remember seeing a patch of sun-scorched grass become a lion watching me with amber eyes. "

Online HERE.


365tomorrows has "Renew" by Steve Smith.

"'Preparations underway.' The voice, angel soft and faintly Irish filled the room seemingly from everywhere at once. Both of the tubs began to fill with a steaming viscous liquid, spattering against the steel, and slowly enveloping the cooling pig."

Online HERE.



At Every Day Fiction, "The View" form Olympus by Sarah Hilary.

"When they decided old Nye was no longer capable of living alone, they offered him a ‘nice room in a lovely home’. He chose a park bench at the top of Primrose Hill."

Online HERE.


And this week at Polu Texni, a trio of quite good genre poems by Mari Ness (HERE and HERE) and Shira Lipkin (HERE). [Reading poetry won't hurt you, I promise!]




Audio Fiction
PodCastle has a PodCastle Miniature "Birthday Wish" by Tina Connolly, read by Grammar Girl.

“Yes,” agreed Mrs. Lemons. “We’re so excited for his wish. We’ve talked of nothing else for months. Joshua, stop eating those candles. It will be perfect.”

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.


Gaming
Dragonsfoot has a potentially quite handy Treasure Generator "A very useful application to randomly generate treasure or populate a magic shop" MS. Windows only.

Available HERE.

And Greywulf’s Lair has an interesting comparison between the 4th edition tier system and the earlier Basic, Expert, Companion, Master and Immortal sets HERE.



Comics
The Horrors of it All has "City of the Living Dead!" from the 1952 one-shot City of the Living Dead. An interesting mix of elements that would later feature in Hollywood blockbusters. Cursed Aztec gold (Pirates of the Caribbean) and a lost city where something undead awaits (The Mummy).


Online HERE.






Cool-Mo-Dee has more ghostly goodness with issue number 22 of Grimm's Ghost Stories. I remember those Whitman reprints.



Available in CBR format HERE.











And at Crosseyed Cyclops, a classic B&W horror magazine Tales of Voodoo #11, in CBZ format.



Available HERE.









Other Cool
Monster Memories has a lengthy look at the classic 1960 film The Time Machine. This lavishly illustrated post is online HERE.