Freebies and a Really Bad Pun

Some great ones today including the lastest offerings from Nightmare Magazine (text and audio), Baen Books (text), PodCastle (Audio), StarShipSofa (Audio), and far too many to list twice. Also a musical treat and a way too much work for a bad comic in response to the latest excellant SF Signal Free Fiction Post.


Fiction
At Baen Books: "Peace Offering" by Wen Spencer. Fantasy.
     "Since war broke out between the elves and the oni, the stories in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette had gotten a lot more bizarre. Walking trees loose on the North Side. Dragons terrorizing Oakland. A spaceship crashing into Turtle Creek. Flocks of men with crow wings mobbing downtown."
At Daily Science Fiction: "Lost and Found" by Jamie Todd Rubin. Speculative Fiction.
     "The mailman delivered the unusual package as the young man who visited me on occasion was leaving."
At Nightmare Magazine:  "Good Fences" by Genevieve Valentine. Horror.
      "He thinks at first the streetlight’s back on, but of course not. It’s been dark six weeks. There are already beer bottles piled on the sidewalk every morning from the dropout teenagers who surge in whenever there’s the littlest pool of darkness they can find, and then they smoke and drink and shout all night right under his window when he’s trying to sleep."


At Perihelium Hard SF featuring.

• "Saturday Night in Saskatchewan" by Steve Stanton.
• "Praise the System" by J. Richard Jacobs. 
• "Network Outage Engineer" by Erin Lale.
• "Unintentional Colonists" by Elizabeth Guizzetti.
• "Mr. Weston’s Key" by Todd A. Burnett.
• "Central Battle Command, Allied Forces: Day Four" by Marilyn K. Martin.
• "We Do Not Serve Weeping Men" by Eric Del Carlo.

At Weird Fiction Review [Via SF Signal]

• "It’s a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby.
• "The Dead Valley: 'In the depth of the silence came a cry...'" by Ralph Adams Cram.
• "The Vile Game of Gunter and Landau" by Michael Cisco.
• "The Comet" by Bruno Schulz.

Now Posted: Fear and Trembling #50 Horror featuring

• "The Forgotten" by Derrick Eaves.
• "Angel of Death" by Bruce Harris.
• "Squirm" by Chris Griglack.

Now Posted: Three-Lobe Burning Eye #21 speculative fiction featuring.

• "Ladybird" by E. Catherine Tobler.
• "The Eel Question" by Mae Empson.
• "Riding Atlas" by Ferrett Steinmetz.
• "Hoarfrost" by Michelle Muenzler.
• "The Book in Dutch" by M. Bennardo.
• "Judith of Lions" by R.S. Bohn.

Audio Fiction
At Nightmare Magazine:  "Good Fences" by Genevieve Valentine. Horror.
At PodCastle: "Little Better Than a Beast" by T.A. Pratt. Fantasy.
     "Granger was a powerful magician, in his way, and even if he wasn’t much use to the city’s secret shadow government of sorcerers, he mostly stayed out of the way in the park, and his elementals had been formidable warriors in last winter’s battle against the nightmare-things."
At StarShipSofa: "The Day Time Stopped Moving" by Bradner Buckner. 
     "All Dave Miller wanted to do was commit suicide in peace. He tried, but the things that happened after he'd pulled the trigger were all wrong. Like everyone standing around like statues. No St. Peter, no pearly gate, no pitchforks or halos. He might just as well have saved the bullet!"

Flash Fiction
At Every Day Fiction: "Selkie" by Pippa Cooper. Fantasy.
At 365 Tomorrow: "They Stole My Soul!" by David Barber.
At Yesteryear Fiction: "Borderland" by Michelle Kopp. Fantasy.

E-Books
At Free eBooks Daily:

• Cades Cove: The Curse of Allie Mae by Aiden James. Horror.
• Prince In The Mist by Claudy Conn. Fantasy Romance.
• Darkness Awakened by Stephanie Rowe. Paranormal Romance.
• Darkness Falls by Jessica Sorensen. YA Horror. Vampires.
• Mortal Obligation by Nichole Chase. YA Paranormal Romance.
• Mirror Bound by Leanne Herrera. Paranormal Romance.
• Lunula by Alyssa Auch. Fantasy.
• Under the Black Clouds by Suren Hakobyan. Fantasy.
• Waiting For Midnight by Merrie Destefano. Fantasy Short Stories.

At Smashwords

• "A Crack in the Wall" by Chad Inglis. Urban Fantasy. 3k.
• "Verbit" by S. A. Barton. Science Fiction. 2k.
• "The Walking Unwed: How to Survive Your First 100 Days as Newlyweds" by Russia Nichols. Horror.

 Non-Fiction
At Enchanted Conversation: "The Ghosts of Classic Fairy Tales" by Kristina Wojtaszek. Mythology.
At Project Gutenberg: "The Golden Bough (Vol. 1 of 2)" by Sir James George Frazer. Mythology.
     "Sometimes it is the souls of the dead which are believed to animate the trees. The Dieyerie tribe of South Australia regard as very sacred certain trees, which are supposed to be their fathers transformed; hence they will not cut the trees down, and protest against the settlers doing so. Some of the Philippine Islanders believe that the souls of their forefathers are in certain trees, which they therefore spare."

Other Genres
Audio Fiction At Decoder Ring Theatre: "Two Is Too Many!" Noir.
E-Book At Free eBooks Daily: Blackwell Unchained by Troy D. Smith. Western.

Bad Pun

And as a special bonus
"The Ballad of Felix Baumgartner" by John Anealio.