Clarkesworld, PodCastle, and More

Quite a bit of good, free fiction from some of the better sites on the web, as well as good free audio fiction and flash fiction. Today's illustration is for the two highlighted stories stories in the latest issue of the awesome Clarkesworld magazine.












@Clarkesworld: "Conservation of Shadows" by Yoon Ha Lee.

"There is no such thing as conservation of shadows. When light destroys shadows, darkness does not gain in density elsewhere. When shadows steal over earth and across the sky, darkness is not diluted."

@Clarkesworld: "The Fish of Lijiang" by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu.

"After ten years, everything here has changed. The only thing that remains the same is the color of the sky."

@Lightspeed: "Defenders" by Will McIntosh. Science Fiction.

"The silence was shocking, the sense of isolation unnerving, partly because she knew it meant the jet had penetrated the Defenders’ cloak and entered Australian airspace."

@Subterranean Press: "White Lines on a Green Field" by Catherynne M. Valente.

"Let me tell you about the year Coyote took the Devils to the State Championship. "

@Anotherealm: "The Gift of Pleasure" by Tim Myers. Speculative Fiction.
@Author's Site: "Destiny" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. (2001). Fantasy. [Up until next Monday]
@Philipine Genre Stories: "Stars" by Yvette Tan. Speculative Fiction.
@Smashwords: "The Accidental Immortal" by Trista DiGiuseppi. Fantasy.
@Free eBooks Daily [DRM]:

• "Horker's Law" by Mike Lee. Fantasy.
• "Code Name: Agent Madrid" by Lauren A. Johnson. Paranormal / Urban Fantasy.

@Pixel of Ink [Kindle]:

• "Origins" by Randolph Lalonde. Science Fiction.
• "Her Wiccan, Wiccan Ways" by Traci Hall. Fantasy. YA.

Now Posted: Quantum Muse August 2011 Edition featuring fiction

• "The Beautiful People" by Michael Peralta. Science Fiction.
• "Alien Artifacts" by Harris Tobias. Science Fiction.
• "Bijou and the Tree" by Julie Foster. Fantasy.
• "One Easy Step to Saving the World" by James Turnbull. Fantasy.

Serial Fiction
@Strange Horizons: "The Rugged Track (part 1 of 2)" by Liz Argall. Speculative Fiction.






@PodCastle: "Zauberschrift" by David D. Levine, read by Wilson Fowlie. Fantasy.

“Why have you come all this way to ask _my_ help? I am no wizard — I never even finished my apprenticeship. I am just a dyer.”

@Clarkesworld: "Conservation of Shadows" by Yoon Ha Lee, read by Kate Baker. [see above]


Serial Audio
@The Drama Pod: "The Fantastical Adventures of Percival Van Cleef Ep1" by Kate Mandalov Steampunk.

"Professor Percival Van Cleef is entering the Chelsea Royal Flower Show to uncover a Prussian plot to murder the Queen. Armed with combustibles and explosives he is ready to learn just how deadly is the art of flower arranging"

Non-Genre Audio Poetry*
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale, read by Ann Simmons. Right click to save the LibriVox MP3.

*Only because it inspired, and provided the title for, one of Ray Bradbury's more poignant SF stories.

@Daily Science Fiction: "Counting Coup" by Kat Otis.
@Daily Science Fiction: "Toad Sister" by Joanna Michal Hoyt.
@Daily Science Fiction: "Only Backwards" by Kenneth S Kao.
@Flashes in the Dark: "Instinct" by Susan Franceschina. Horror.
@Flashes in the Dark: "Five Urns" by E.J. Loera. Horror.
@Flashes in the Dark: "Around the World in 33 Days" by Trey Dowell. Horror.
@Quantum Muse: "Beside Myself" by Nathan Parshall.
@Sam's Dot: SciFaikufest Vol.9 No. 1
@Strange Horizons: [Poem] "Foxes" by Jamieson Ridenhour.
@365 tomorrows: "Cold Blooded Killers" by Patricia Stewart. Science Fiction.
@365 tomorrows: "Timing" by Duncan Shields . Science Fiction.
@365 tomorrows: "The Cutting Edge" by Waldo van der Waal . Science Fiction.
@Weirdyear: "Angel on Fire" by C. A. T. Torres V
@Yesteryear Fiction: "The Pyramid" by Dan Shelton. Fantasy.
@Linger Fiction:

• "Black Flames" by Bruce Boston. Fantasy.
• "The Widow’s Grove" by Jaelithe Ingold.
• "The Metamorphosis of Jane Doe" by Nathaniel Katz.
• "Love in Pieces" by Brenda Stokes Barron.
• "Smoke and Drum" by Shelley Ontis.