Thursday, September 5, 2013

Fun Free Fiction

It's almost the weekend!  Until then here's some great free fiction to pass the time.  There's a new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, tons of flash fiction and comics, and more. A couple of links via Regan Wolfrom at the always awesome SF Signal. More later. [Art from "Asteroid Witch" in comics]


Fiction
• At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "On the Weaponization of Flora and Fauna" by Alec Austin & Marissa Lingen. Fantasy.
     "As such, I was present in the imperial audience chamber when Plinio Gustavo Invicta presented the results of his expedition into the half-wild province of Corvesia; though not, alas, in any position to witness the first revelation of Plinio’s great discovery, as the Count of Nova Carthago was standing directly in front of me."

• At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "The Goblin King’s Concubine" by Raphael Ordoñez. Fantasy.
      "It was a good thing that Maugreth’s men mutinied when they did. Otherwise he would have gone mad like the rest and fled shrieking into the moss-forest at the river’s edge to be devoured by spiders. Of course he didn’t know that at the time. He just sat in the ship’s hold where his men had locked him, shaking his grizzled gray-blonde locks, watching the sunless banks slip slowly past the embrasure."

• At Mythic Delirium Books: "Echoes in the Dark" by Ken Liu. Historical Fantasy.
      “The Chinese speak of him as a great fighter,” my cousin said, “skilled in the ancient arts of combat. They call him by the honorific Ta Tsia, which I’m told means ‘Great Hero.’ Many are the tales of his prowess in battle and generosity towards the poor and helpless.”

• At Weird Fiction Review: "The Divinity Student: Part One" by Michael Cisco. 
      "Short but powerful, this neo-gothic novel, which is illustrated by Harry O. Morris, uses the crisp immediacy of the present tense to lead the reader on a hallucinatory journey from humanity to inhuman transcendence. After a miraculous recovery from near death, a young man known only as the Divinity Student is beset by strange dreams whose lingering effects further alienate him from his fellows. Abruptly, he is sent away from the chill, damp confines of the seminary to work as a word-finder in the vibrant, chaotic desert city of San Veneficio, scanning old texts to record any unknown words he may find." - Amazon.

Flash Fiction
• At Daily Science Fiction: "Flip Side" by Chip Houser. Science Fiction.
• At Every Day Fiction: "Following the Cow's Path" by Sarah Crysl Akhtar. Surreal.
• At Nature: "The Scent of Things to Come" by J. R. Johnson. Science Fiction.
• At SFFaudio: "The House" by H.P. Lovecraft. Poem.
• At 365 Tomorrows: "Runaway" by Duncan Shields. Science Fiction.
At Kazka Press: Fantasy.

Audio Fiction
• At Beneath Ceaseless Skies: "Ill-Met at Midnight" by David Tallerman. read by John Meagher. Fantasy.
      "It was a good thing that Maugreth’s men mutinied when they did. Otherwise he would have gone mad like the rest and fled shrieking into the moss-forest at the river’s edge to be devoured by spiders. Of course he didn’t know that at the time. He just sat in the ship’s hold where his men had locked him, shaking his grizzled gray-blonde locks, watching the sunless banks slip slowly past the embrasure."

Comics
Other Genres
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Fiction at The Western Online:
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