Footprints, Fantastic Planet, Kat and Mouse, and More

Just another eclectic collection of free genre items from the web.

E-Fiction
The latest episode of the online serial Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire "Easy Money" - Part One" by Abner Senires is up.

"Just another typical day in the life of a ronin. Street mercenary. Gun for hire."

Online HERE.


Hub Magazine number 72 is up with four flash fiction stories, "Quartermaster" by Steve “I don’t use the middle initial J” Cooper, "Day Trippers" by Ellen J Allen, "The Girl in the Rose-Tinted Glasses and the Man in the Mirrorshades" by D J Muir, "The Harvest of the Machines" by R.J. Smith.

Available in PDF and Mobi downloads HERE.


At 365tommorows flash SF "Contractual Obligations" by Sam Clough.

"I’m just a golem: made of flesh rather than clay, but still propelled along by the words in my head and the fire in my eyes."

Online HERE.

And at Every Day Fiction flash SF "Open and Closed" by Oonah V Joslin.
"Yes, she had to admit these Cargahelli Grubs were ambrosia."

Online HERE.

Audio Fiction
Zombie Astronaut has a version of Dracula and the dark, post-apocalyptic comedies Steve the First and Steve the Second available for MP3 downloads HERE.





Video
At Movies Found Online, Fantastic Planet (1973), 72 minutes PG.

"Based on French science fiction novelist Stefan Wul's Oms en Serie ("Oms by the Dozen"), René Laloux's La Planète Sauvage (its title changed to Fantastic Planet for the U.S. release) paints an animated tale of humans kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue humanoid giants called Traags."

Streaming online HERE.






Gaming
The fourteenth issue of the free e-zine Footprints is available for download in PDF format. This issue features "The Necromancer" (Class), "100 Names for Taverns" (Article), "The Dead Down Below" (adventure), "The Boggle" (monster), "The Vulkodlak" (monster),
"Seasons in the Abyss" (article), "Nolzur of Lendor" (NPC), "Vampire Lords (part 2)" (NPC Class), and My Kingdom for a ... (article). An extremely well-done zine.

Of most use to 0-2nd edition (A)D&D games and clones, it could easily be of some use to later editions and even other FRPGs.

Available HERE.



And The Free RPG Blog reviews, and links to, a free RPG. Midgard: Viking Legends, an intriguing sounding, rune-based game is available for download in PDF format.



The review and link are HERE.





Comics
The Horrors of It All has a trio of stories, the regular length "Harvest of Death," a one page filler featuring "The Velvet Vampire," and a two page text story "Blood Will Tell." All from the "lost" issue #15 of Adventures into Darkness.


All online HERE.






Grantbridge Street & other misadventures has a pair of cool Alien Worlds stories online.

"The Inheritors" from issue #3 is online HERE and "Ride the Blue Bus" from issue #7 is online HERE.








And Cool-Mo-Dee has more Grimm's Ghost Stories with issue #27 featuring "Music to Die By!"


In CBZ format HERE.











Other Cool
BestScienceFictionStories.com has a review of, and link to a free online copy of "The Egan Thief" by Gord Sellar (from Flurb #4, Fall-Winter 2007).

Online HERE.




My Star Trek Scrapbook has a short Trek article from TV Monthly Issue #1 and a ST:TMP related Funky comic strip.


Online HERE.





And the latest SFFaudio podcast is up featuring a very informative look at audio fantasy and SF.

Streaming and in MP3 download HERE.