Free Fiction (Parke Godwin, Elizabeth Bear, Tanith Lee, and More)

A free e-fiction bonanza today!

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This week's Strange Horizon features reviews and ...

ARTICLE: "Éowyn under Siege: Female Warriors During the Middle Ages" by Stefan Ingstrand
"Going to war was the most masculine activity imaginable, and men who failed in battle were thought effeminate, so women who entered the fray broke the predominant pattern in a grand way."

COLUMN: "Bouncing High into the Stupidsphere (Part Two)" by Iain Jackson
"Last time, I covered some recent entries in network television and comics that managed to get just about everything important wrong. ...This time, I cover one last show that's gotten just about everything wrong this season"

FICTION: "Husbandry" by Eugene Fischer
"Next is a family with a nine-year-old boy and a dead parakeet. They aren't just dropping off the carcass for deactivation and disposal, they've come to have Gerry, a professional, explain death to their son."

Online HERE.



New at Fantasy Magazine "The Most Dangerous Profession" by Sergey Gerasimov.

"There was a slight abnormality in the man’s look, in his words, gestures, a touch of affectation seen through his otherwise gentle and open manner. It wasn’t mental disorder yet, but a tightrope walking over the emptiness of it."

Online HERE.


H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror #5 is now available as a free download with

"THE OUTSIDER" editorial by Marvin Kaye
"A BIT OF LIFE" by Alexandra Konigsberg & David Konigsberg
"CHERRYSTONES & SHARDS OF ICE" by Ekaterina Sedia
"BAGS" by Mike Allen
"DESCANT" by Terry Bramlett
"THE THING’S THE PLAY" by Andrew J. Wilson
"GOING AFTER TIMMY" by Parke Godwin
"ICHTHYS" by Arrin Dembo
"BOXING DAY" by Leah Bobet
"OSTRACA" by Jane Alice Kelly
"CRYPTIC LIFE" by Jill Baumann
"THE PIPER’S CHAIR" by Terry McGarry
"FORMIDABLE TERRAIN" by Elizabeth Bear
"WITHIN YOUR SOUL I SIGHTLESS SEE" by Eugie Foster
"THE MONSTER IN THE LIVING ROOM" by Marc Bilgrey
"BETWEEN OURSELVES" by Tanith Lee & Rosemary Hawley Jarman

Available HERE [via SF Signal and Variety SF]




Beneath Ceaseless Skies continues to publish great free fantasy stories with

"The Five Days of Justice Merriwell" by Stephanie Burgis.
"My voice sounds thin and choked when I speak. “Let the soldiers choose for themselves,” I say. “Let those who wish to flee leave now, in good faith. I will not have them stay to be murdered for a cause they cannot support.

Online HERE.

and "Haxan" by Kenneth Mark Hoover
“No, I’m talking about real people. Flesh and blood like you and me. They’re taken from places they call home and sent into this stormy sea to help calm the waters. It never ends because it’s the storm itself, the unending conflict, that makes the world we know a reality."

Online HERE.

And don't miss their free audio stories including the most recent one "Hangman" by Erin Cashier. "I'd had a name, a long time ago. But no one but me remembered it." All in MP3 downloads HERE.



New at Subterranean Press "A Tulip for Lucretius" by Ken MacLeod.

"I was deep in a Californian orgy when the summons came, like the voice of conscience. In fact: the voice of Father Declan, and not meant for me."

Online HERE.


Hub has its 82nd issue out with Fiction: "Under a Bridge" by Paul Fairbairn, feature: "Gun for Hire" by Guy Adams, and reviews.

In PDF and Mobi downloads HERE.





And at Manybooks a very short horror story "Mex" by William Logan. First published in Fantastic Universe January 1957

"a quiet story from down near the Mexican border, where men are very close to ancestral memories and to the things which dwell in the shadows."

In many free e-book formats HERE.



And Free Speculative Fiction Online has added 41! more stories to their list of free online fiction. Many great stories there [via SF Signal]