Saturday Freebies

 We have quite a bit of free reading for a Saturday morning.  There's a new issue of the wonderful fantasy poetry magazine Goblin Fruit (illustrated to the left) and a new issue of the long-running Science Fiction magazine Aphelion (there's much more there than just the linked stories). There are some good sounding E-Books (hurry as the ones not at Smashwords are often only free for a very limited time).  Two great audio SF stories, the always great Escape Pod has a new episode and LibriVox has a story by the classic SF writer Poul Anderson.  And, as if that wasn't enough, there are a few flash and pulp fiction stories.  And to keep up ny evil plot to work SF Signal to death, there will almost certainly be more posts this weekend.  


Magazines
Now Posted: Goblin Fruit Autumn 2012 featuring fantasy poetry.

• "The Vigil" by Mike Allen.
• "Blueshift" by Sonya Taaffe.
• "A body that is bold to come" by Rose Lemberg.
• "Stone" by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back.
• "Feral" by Ruth Jenkins.
• "In the Sun-Sweet Desert" by Alex Dally MacFarlane.
• "lisa" by Brock Marie Moore.
• "Vigor Mortis" by C. W. Johnson.
• "The Last Wife" by Jennifer Crow.
• "Cardiomythology" by Virginia M. Mohlere.
• "Kingdom" by Rachel Dacus.

 Now Posted: Aphelion #167 Featuring Science Fiction including

• "Obscured by Madness" by Gary W. Feather.
• "From the Depth" by Sam Best.
• "The Crystal Ghost" by Matt Spencer.
• "Living the Lie " by J. I. Charles.
• "Lord of Snakes" by John Rovito.
• "Microwave" by P. C. Van Slyke.
• "In Shadows I'm Gone" by Evan Davies.
• "Indigo Puree" by Connley (Lee) Landers.
• "Sleeping Dogs Lie" by I. Verse.

E-Books
Via Pixel of Ink:  The Girls From Alcyone by Cary Caffrey. Science Fiction.
At Amazon: Alien Hunter, Star Trooper by David Scholes. Science Fiction.
At Smashwords:

• "The Lady in the Forest" by Jeanne Olivier. Fantasy. 4k.
• "Destined To Be Damned" by David Blake. Fantasy. Horror. 1k.
• "Army of Skeletons" by W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh. Urban Fantasy. 11k.
• "The Green Loch" by W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh. Urban Fantasy. 4k.
• "Mondays with Langford" by Johnny Rivas. Horror. Humor. 2k.

Flash Fiction
At 365 Tomorrows: "The Uprising" by Bruce Meyer. Science Fiction.
At Flashes in the Dark: "Hollow" by Mike McLaren. Horror.

Audio Fiction
At Escape Pod:  "Some of Them Closer" by Marissa Lingen. Science Fiction.
      "Coming back to Earth was not the immediate shock they expected it to be for me. It was something, certainly, but I’d been catching up on the highlights of the news as it cascaded back to the ship on our relativistic return trip"
At LibriVox: "The Chapter Ends" by Poul Anderson. Science Fiction.
     "Far, far in the future the Earth is still spinning around the Sun, on the edge of the galaxy, dozing in obscurity, forgotten by it's trillions of progeny and completely irrelevant."

Other Genres 
At Online Pulps Site:  "Ace Killer" by Bruce McAlester from Sky Fighters, May, 1937 and "Harlequin's Death Mask" by Lawrence Treat from Ten Detective Aces, Feb, 1941. [Pulp/Noir]